Teach Sleep Repeat

Dylan Price and Hayden Stevens

Teach Sleep Repeat is the podcast for teachers who need a laugh, a rant, and a reminder they are not alone. Dylan and Hayden dive into the real highs and lows of school life from classroom chaos to staffroom gossip. Listener submissions bring out the funniest disasters and most relatable dilemmas, while guests join to share their own unfiltered stories from life in and around education. Send us your favourite teaching stories! E-mail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

  1. 21 HR AGO

    Ep 191: The Insanity Of SATs Prep In Primary Schools

    Dylan watched a video this week arguing that Year 6 teachers should be paid more than everyone else. It sparked a conversation that goes much deeper than pay and gets to the heart of something that genuinely makes Dylan furious: what SATs prep is actually doing to children. This one is a deep dive. They cover the Year 6 pay debate, whether SATs boosters are ever justified, and the tutoring company elephant in the room. But the real heat comes when Dylan talks about pulling kids out of PE to sit in a dingy room doing a SPaG paper. He has thoughts. Many thoughts. There is also genuine practical advice for Year 6 teachers in the SATs run-up. How to keep kids calm rather than transmitting your own stress to them, why communal breakfast on test morning works, why you should be telling the kids the toilet procedure, and why familiarising children with test paper format from September is not the same as cramming. Dylan also makes the argument that the pressure of SATs week is a Year 3, 4 and 5 problem just as much as it is a Year 6 problem, and why leaving it all to the last two terms is a choice the whole school makes together. Passionate, honest, and genuinely useful if you are in Year 6 right now. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school before SATs? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    48 min

  2. 2 DAYS AGO

    Ep 190: Q&A: Teacher Hypocrites, Delaying School Admissions & Independent Writing

    It's a Q&A episode and this one gets spicy. Dylan and Hayden tackle the big questions sent in by you lot, and as always, nothing is off the table. First up: why are teachers the biggest hypocrites in the world? (Spoiler: staff meetings. You know what you're doing.) Then, a brilliant listener question about summer born children and delaying school admissions, a policy more parents should know about, and one that sparks a genuinely fascinating discussion about school readiness, birth dates, and whether skipping Reception is ever the right call. Then Dylan goes full Dylan on independent writing assessment. If you caught his recent post and weren't sure what he meant, or if you were one of the people who completely misunderstood it, this is your chance to hear it explained in detail with zero apologies. What counts as independent writing? Why does it matter how we assess it? And why is passing off teacher-supported work as independent a problem the whole profession needs to own? Plus: the hardest half term of the year (Winter 2, and it's not even close), whether it's better or worse to have a teacher-parent in your class, and a highly important discussion about dream child-free days. Funny, honest, and never dull. This is Teach Sleep Repeat. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    48 min

  3. 6 APR

    Ep 189: Q&A: ECTs Leading Subjects, Best Teacher Moments & Phones In The Classroom

    Another Q&A episode and this one has plenty to get stuck into. Dylan and Hayden answer your questions on some topics that clearly struck a nerve. First up, a heartfelt question from an ECT who has been quietly doing an entire subject leader role under the guise of "shadowing." Dylan and Hayden call it out for exactly what it is, and offer some genuine advice on how to advocate for yourself without burning bridges. Then things get warmer. The boys share their career highlights from inside the classroom and it turns out the moments that stick are never about data. Think handwritten notes from kids, a half court basketball shot that somehow went in, and one girl who ran across a shopping centre years later just to say hello. There is also a brilliant discussion about phones in schools and whether Ofsted should be marking a school down for a single student having their phone out. Plus, a slightly awkward question about SLT leaders who have their own private fridge and kettle so they never have to enter the staffroom. They round things off with what they have genuinely enjoyed since leaving the classroom. Turns out, not feeling absolutely exhausted every weekend is quite nice. Funny, honest, and never dull. This is Teach Sleep Repeat. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    47 min

  4. 1 APR

    Ep 188: The Most Common Teacher HATE Comments! (& Why They're Nonsense)

    This one's a bit different. Dylan and Hayden go through the classic one-liners that teacher haters love to fire off online, rate how much they actually boil their blood (on a scale of nought to 1000), and then properly take them apart. From the all-time classic "those who can, do, those who can't, teach" to "you only work 9 till 3," from "I pay your salary so you listen to me" to "just get a different job if it's that bad," every single one gets the Teach Sleep Repeat treatment. Some of them barely register. Some of them absolutely do. The one that really gets going? Teachers are just brainwashing the next generation with their personal politics. What starts as a straightforward dismissal of a daft comment turns into a genuinely fascinating conversation about what indoctrination actually means, where the line is in schools, and why the people shouting loudest about it tend to be the most hypocritical about it. Equal parts funny and surprisingly deep. Come for the takedowns, stay for the debate. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    54 min

  5. 30 MAR

    Ep 187: Q&A - Ridiculous TA Expectations, Spotting Red Flags & Times Table Advice!

    Another Q&A and this one goes in some unexpected directions. Dylan and Hayden tackle your questions with their usual mix of genuine advice and complete chaos. First, a story that riled Dylan up before the episode even started. A new parent going back to work was told by their head teacher to stop helping with the baby at night so they could get more sleep for work. Dylan and Hayden have some thoughts. Then, a brilliant nuanced question about whether it is ever acceptable for an HLTA to do planning and marking. If the hours are contracted, the planning is already done, and nothing is happening outside of paid time, is that fine? Yes and no. The pay gap still does not add up. Spotting red flags when job hunting comes up next, with some really practical tips on what to ask when you walk around a school and why the answers will tell you everything you need to know. Including a story from an anonymous post online about a teacher being penalised for not teaching science during World Book Day week. Yes, really. Dylan also gives his honest take on prepping children for the Multiplication Tables Check, why he actually likes the MTC, and why your goal should never be to prep for the test but to just properly teach times tables. Plus: teachers paying for their own pencils and blue tack. Are we doing this? Are we not? Funny, honest, and never dull. This is Teach Sleep Repeat. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    53 min

  6. 25 MAR

    Ep 186: Positive Masculinity, Secondary School Teaching & Battling Social Media [w/ Mr Hobbs]

    This week, we chat to Mr Hobbs, an English teacher in secondary school based in Cardiff. We talk about secondary teaching, decline in reading, positive masculinity and much more! Follow Mr Hobbs here: https://www.instagram.com/mrhobbsteacher/ Book a free demo for MathsZoo now and see how we can help your school smash maths! www.mathszoo.org Join our free WhatsApp community for Q&A submissions, polls on future episodes & links to the podcast first: Leave us a review and share this episode with someone you think might enjoy it! It really helps us out. Follow us on Instagram: www.instagram.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast Follow us on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/teachsleeprepeatpodcast

    43 min

  7. 23 MAR

    Ep 185: Q&A: Supporting Your Whole Class, Recognising Burnout & Ridiculous Teacher Tasks To Reject!

    A secondary history teacher writes in asking how to support a Year 10 student with very low literacy when reading is basically everything in their subject. Dylan and Hayden tackle it head on, and the advice is genuinely useful whether you are in primary or secondary. Then burnout. Not the headline version where you suddenly collapse, but the quiet physical signs teachers often explain away for months. Dylan opens up about how stress has always shown up in his body before his brain catches on, and why recognising your own personal warning signs is the starting point for everything else. Then things get spicy. Why can teachers control a room of thirty children but completely lose the ability to say no to one extra task in a staff meeting? Dylan has a theory, and it is annoyingly convincing. He also tells the story of how he simply refused to do the hallway display rota, walked out while his colleagues were putting theirs up, and never heard another word about it. The most ridiculous thing teachers have accepted as normal? Working fifteen extra hours a week because the contract says "reasonable additional hours." Spoiler: that is not reasonable. Plus, school dogs, nurseries in schools, whether a QTS teacher is actually qualified for early years, and a very deep dive into which type of teacher keeps parking outside the car park because they lost their lanyard again. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency and arithmetic in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    57 min

  8. 18 MAR

    Ep 184: Levi Colwill On His Reading Campaign, Love Of Books & Helping The Next Generation

    👉 Sign up today at www.storyzoo.org Chelsea and England centre-back Levi Colwill comes on the podcast — not to talk football, but to explain why he is personally funding free access to over 1000 ebooks for schools across the country. Levi launched his campaign with Storyzoo on World Book Day and hundreds of schools signed up within days. In this conversation he talks about his own on-and-off relationship with reading growing up, how books became a lifeline during his lengthy injury this season when his mind was constantly racing at night, and why he wants to give the next generation a better chance than some of the people he knows who still struggle with reading as adults. He also talks about his LSE Academy, where football is deliberately not the main thing. Being on time, having manners, making the right choices — those come first. If the behaviour off the pitch is not right, the boys do not get to play. Dylan and Hayden get into the ebooks versus physical books debate, why being snobby about how children read is cutting your nose off to spite your face, and what the government actually needs to do beyond declaring a national year of reading. Hayden also attempts to explain the offside rule to a professional footballer. It does not go well. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 📚 Sign your school up for free access to over 1000 ebooks via Levi's Storyzoo campaign — link in the description below. 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org 💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s

    42 min
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Teach Sleep Repeat is the podcast for teachers who need a laugh, a rant, and a reminder they are not alone. Dylan and Hayden dive into the real highs and lows of school life from classroom chaos to staffroom gossip. Listener submissions bring out the funniest disasters and most relatable dilemmas, while guests join to share their own unfiltered stories from life in and around education. Send us your favourite teaching stories! E-mail: teachsleeprepeatpod@gmail.com

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  • Creator
    Dylan Price and Hayden Stevens
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    198
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Dylan Price and Hayden Stevens
  • Show Website
    Teach Sleep Repeat

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