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There are mountains of lateral flow tests to do, but most importantly the kids are back! With almost 110 days away from face-to-face teaching what new challenges have emerged on their return, and what strategies are teachers putting in place to help?
Also this episode, Alfie Payne the businessman who employs 7 people, running a company with international clients... at the tender age of 18 - how did school prepare him for the daunting task? 

Ahhh the distant sound of jingle-bells but the long hard slog to half-term - it must be November!
From support bubbles bursting to rainbow lounge-pants zoom calls - how is your lockdown going? With over 55 years of experience in education Ros Wilson joins the gang to help put things in perspective.

After a socially distanced lockdown lack of wine pause they're back and looking forward to September! From levelling with the kids about Covid and #BLM, and coming to terms with caution tape and facemask chic -- what will YOU doing differently when schools re-open to full classroom teaching?
We're talking leadership in the this episode -- good leadership, bad leadership, and how bad could be made good with pearls of wisdom from Andy Buck and Mary Myatt.

Poignant, funny, thought-provoking, at times terribly sad but with an uplifting positive look to the future.
The Queen of comedy Janey Godley joins the gang -- from her horrific Glaswegian childhood to international success, a masterclass in social mobility from the social media ninja with a wee knack for obliterating twitter trolls!

Three more weeks. Three more miserable weeks! If your new lockdown conversational Swedish learning needs a break, allow the The Times columnist Hugo Rifkind, The I Paper's Benjamin Butterworth and Euronews' Hadley Stewart reflect on how lockdown is driving them crazy. Oh and the story about Clemmie, Gary Barlow & Wallace and Gromit.
And we're coining a new word -- 'judginess'.

With a guidance vacuum and unhelpful speculation, what can school leaders do to help define the 'new normal'?
Relentless optimist Nick Heard and entrepreneur Andrew 'Bernie' Bernard join the gang for a virtual group-hug.