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. -4 ДН.

    195. Will The Smartphone Ban In Schools Actually Change Anything?

    England just made the school phone ban statutory. From this autumn, banning phones during the school day is not just guidance schools can choose to follow. It is the law. So why are so many headteachers saying it does not really change anything? Dylan and Hayden get into what the new law actually means in practice, why 99.8% of primaries already had a phone policy before this legislation existed, and whether the legal change makes any real difference to what happens in a classroom on a Monday morning. They also take on the pushback. The parent who wants a direct line to their child after pickup plans change. The Year 10 art student photographing their sketchbook. The kid with Type 1 diabetes whose phone is also their glucose monitor. The argument that banning phones in schools is the politically cheap alternative to actually regulating the platforms doing the real damage. The teacher case for this is strong and Dylan and Hayden give it a proper hearing. The daily grind of phone policing, the bullying that follows kids into lessons through group chats, the playgrounds that genuinely went quiet and then got loud again in a different way when phones disappeared. But the Birmingham study that found banning phones in school did not improve sleep, mental health or grades also gets its moment, because the evidence is more complicated than the headlines suggest. Sharp, honest, and right in the middle of a live news story. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency 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

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  2. 20 АПР.

    192. Q&A: Cost Of Living Nightmare, Sick Day Pressure & Using A.I. Safely

    A teacher writes in saying she had to be talked out of going into work while ill by her own partner. Not because she wanted to be there, but because calling in sick felt worse than just turning up. Dylan and Hayden know exactly what that feels like, and this one opens a conversation about why sick days in teaching are genuinely broken. Then a headteacher has announced that all staff are being moved to different year groups in September, nobody wants it, nobody was consulted, and the latest anyone will find out where they are going is the day before the May resignation deadline. Suck it up or leave. Dylan has a view on whether that is acceptable leadership. There is also a really interesting question about why children's happiness drops so sharply between primary and secondary school, and what secondary schools could actually learn from the way primary works. The reports question will resonate with anyone in the final stretch of the year. A teacher has been told by leadership that AI cannot be used to help write reports under any circumstances. Dylan and Hayden discuss whether that policy makes any sense, what you can actually take to your head to argue the case, and how to get through reports without losing the will to live. And the one that might hit hardest. A teacher in their thirties, single, renting, cannot save a penny. Loves the job but is financially stuck. At what point does staying in a job you love become genuinely irresponsible? Honest, funny, and right on time for this point of the year. 🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show! 🔢 Want to boost maths fluency 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

    44 мин.
  3. 15 АПР.

    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 мин.
  4. 13 АПР.

    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 мин.
  5. 6 АПР.

    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 мин.

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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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