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It's Your Own Time You're Wasting

It's education, Jim, but not as we know it... banter, biscuits and bonkers ideas are the key ingredients in It's Your Own Time You're Wasting - the new education podcast from Beyond. Join Marie and Jodi as they serve up a slice of staffroom chat and get to grips with the most pressing issues in education today, such as socialising with non-teachers, mislaying students on school trips, and re-training your bladder after the summer holidays.

S5 Ep 7 | Out in the classroom (Guest: Victoria Cleary Symonds)

22 mins; July 29, 2024

S5 Ep 6 | Primary to Secondary English: managing the transition (Guest: Katie Rose)

23 mins; July 01, 2024

S5 Ep 5 | Primary to Secondary Maths: managing the transition (Guest: Rachel Wood)

25 mins; May 27, 2024

S5 Ep4 | Education and Progressive Thinking (Guest: Rebecca Stott)

16 mins; April 30, 2024

S5 Ep3 | Teaching with a chronic illness (Guest: Hannah Brown)

22 mins; March 25, 2024

S5 Ep2 | Making PE popular (Guest: Damian Bullock)

27 mins; February 27, 2024

S5 Ep1 | Teaching looked-after children (Guest: Sophie Rayner)

22 mins; January 26, 2024

S4 Ep8 | Meet our Christmas-ologist! (Guest: Claire Yaxley)

23 mins; December 14, 2023

S4 Ep7 | Teaching abroad (Guest: Aasha Chauhan)

24 mins; November 30, 2023

S4 Ep6 | I learnt to read at secondary school (Guest: Ian Ross)

25 mins; November 17, 2023

S4 Ep5 | Drama Queens - bringing subjects to life through drama

26 mins; November 01, 2023

S4 Ep4 | Improving mental health through the great outdoors (Guest: Joe Doherty, The Outward Bound Trust)

26 mins; October 18, 2023

S4 Ep3 | Myth busting: the truth about home education

38 mins; October 04, 2023

S4 Ep2 | I swapped Lady Gaga for Year Nine English (Guest: Paul Brand)

22 mins; September 20, 2023

S4 Ep1 | Dyslexia in the classroom

21 mins; September 08, 2023

Season 4 Trailer

35 secs; August 29, 2023

S3 Ep7 | You are amazing! (Guests: lots of our listeners)

31 mins; July 12, 2023

S3 Ep6 | I built a school in Sierra Leone (Guest: Neil Morland, Project 3580)

25 mins; June 28, 2023

S3 Ep5 | A whole new world! Managing year 7 transition (Guest: Louise Herbert, transition expert)

23 mins; June 14, 2023

S3 Ep4 | Top tips for teaching students with invisible illnesses (Guest: Sophie Ainsworth, RAiISE)

30 mins; May 31, 2023

S3 Ep2 | Digging for The Upside Down: can technology increase engagement with nature? (Guests: Jack Reed and Emily Wormald from Outward Bound)

37 mins; May 19, 2023

S3 Ep2 | Myth-busting: What do OFSTED really want? (Guest: Graham Tyrer, former OFSTED Inspector)

44 mins; May 03, 2023

S3 Ep1 | Are We Teaching Creative Writing All Wrong? (Guest: Verity Croker)

24 mins; April 19, 2023

S2 Ep7 | School ghosts and classroom hauntings (Guest: Emma Dadswell)

23 mins; March 29, 2023

S2 Ep6 | Brainwashed by Andrew Tate: combatting misogyny in the classroom (Guest: Neil Morland)

30 mins; March 16, 2023

S2 Ep6 TRAILER | Brainwashed by Andrew Tate: combatting misogyny in the classroom (Guest: Neil Morland)

35 secs; March 10, 2023

S2 Ep5 | Teacher strikes : will they make a difference?

27 mins; March 01, 2023

S2 Ep4 | Three teachers and a dating site (Guest: Tom Rogers from Edudate)

26 mins; February 15, 2023

S2 Ep3 | Will robots take over the classroom? (Guest: Dan Fitzpatrick from ThirdBox)

45 mins; February 01, 2023

S2 Ep2 | Maths 'til you die?

27 mins; January 18, 2023

S2 Ep1 | You Don’t Have to be Mad to Work Here…

36 mins; January 04, 2023

Ep 8 | Christmas: I've got nuts in my teeth!

25 mins; December 14, 2022

Ep 7 | The Secret Lives of Teachers: Fossil Hunter

30 mins; November 30, 2022

Ep 6 | Three Strikes and You're Out!

33 mins; November 16, 2022

Ep5 | Does my bum look big in this?

29 mins; November 02, 2022

Ep 4 | So, you're a teacher?

20 mins; October 19, 2022

Ep 3 | Get out of my classroom!

30 mins; October 05, 2022

Ep 2 | Are We Nearly There Yet?

26 mins; September 23, 2022

Ep 1 | New Year, New You?

28 mins; September 07, 2022

TRAILER: It's Your Own Time You're Wasting: chat from Beyond the classroom

1 min; August 11, 2022

It's Your Own Time You're Wasting

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