by 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
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June 29, 2026
<p>You've just been handed your new class, and the previous teacher's parting words are that they were the most difficult group they've taught in eleven years. Helpful heads up, or a curse you carry all summer? Dylan and Hayden open with the tricky class handover, why every class somehow becomes the trickiest one ever, and whether tricky classes even exist or it's all down to the school.</p><p>Then it gets spicier. A listener is made joint subject lead with no TLR, no extra time and no choice, and Dylan has strong feelings about doing free leadership work, including what he would actually say to the head. After that, a teacher reckons some colleagues just don't want to work, which sparks a proper chat about change fatigue and what negativity really means.</p><p>There are anonymous surveys that are anything but anonymous, and an Ofsted question about who speaks up when it counts and who stays quiet.</p><p>Honest, funny, and a bit fired up by the end.</p><p>🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show!<br>🔢 Try our completely free maths worksheet generator now! tools.mathszoo.app <br>💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: <a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s">https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s</a></p>
June 22, 2026
<p>🧮 Free for school staff: generate arithmetic worksheets in seconds at tools.mathszoo.app</p><p>The government have announced plans for all children on free school meals to be given access to an AI tutor, which begs the question, are we already on the way to humans being replaced by robots?</p><p>"Am I cut out for this?" Ellie's message is the one that might hit hardest. She moved from TA into a Year 6 class as a trainee, was promised regular meetings and observations that never materialised, has had praise maybe twice all year, and is now quietly wondering whether she's just not built for teaching. Dylan and Hayden have a lot to say about whose fault that actually is.</p><p>It's a mailbag full of early career pressure this week. One ECT is staring down phonics screening with an 86% pass rate hanging over them, daily interventions and constant mock screenings. Another has been asked to go for Year Group Leader in only their third year, before they've even changed year groups. Is that a vote of confidence or a red flag?</p><p>And after the setting episode, a Year 1 ECT writes in stretched paper-thin: split-teaching three ways, rushing inputs into a 45 minute slot, and the one TA in the key stage forever getting pulled for cover.</p><p>Honest, a little raw, and a real look at what we're asking new teachers to carry.</p><p>🎧 New episodes every week. Leave us a review if you enjoy the show!</p><p>🔢 Want to boost maths fluency in your school? Book a free Maths Zoo trial at www.mathszoo.org</p><p>💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s</p>
June 15, 2026
<p>Use our FREE worksheet arithmetic generator here: tools.mathszoo.app</p><p>Twenty-five years in KS2, and Kathy says teaching now feels like a battle. Her message kicks off this listener mailbag: a rise in SEND needs, behaviour, apathy and shaky basics since COVID, and a class where the majority aren't equipped for year group expectations. She's gone more child-led to meet them where they are, but that collides with what the curriculum demands. So she asks the big one. Do the people making the decisions actually understand life at the coalface, and who are they even listening to? Dylan and Hayden don't dodge it.</p><p>Then Phil asks the fun one. Now they've bagged the Education Secretary, who's the dream guest next? The wishlist gets gloriously chaotic.</p><p>Luke wonders whether centrally planned schemes of work quietly deskill new teachers who never learn to build a lesson from scratch. And Tom brings the staffroom chaos: kebabs, which infant year they'd brave, and the eternal question of class assemblies.</p><p>Honest, funny, and a properly good airing of the stuff teachers actually worry about.</p><p>🎧 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 <a href="http://www.mathszoo.org">www.mathszoo.org</a>💬 Join our completely free WhatsApp community and connect with teachers from across the UK: <a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s">https://chat.whatsapp.com/HB7n1PNGdGL5STACssEH1s</a></p>
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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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