Merry Christmas to all our listeners! On Boxing Day you can tune in to our annual offering of interesting, odd and festive things, featuring Emma, Sian and Tom, plus AI, food, electric shocks, poetry and more...

THIS FRIDAY: We join Kerry Bevan for an episode all about languages. Why should we learn languages? What's unique about the subject? What are the opportunities and challenges of teaching languages? All this and plenty more if you tune in wherever you get your podcasts.

THIS FRIDAY: What can we as reflective practitioners learn from the world of sport? We welcome back Professor to find out!

We always like a 'first' on the podcast, and in yesterday's recording we name-checked our first podcast dog, coming to us down-the-line from Oxford!

We hope you enjoyed last week's 'light'(ish) half term episode. If you haven't had a listen yet, here's a bonus bit of @thomasbreeze.bsky.social causing trouble...

THIS FRIDAY: It's half term here in Wales, so we indulge in one of our 'light'(ish) episodes, bringing some random things to the table to chew over. PLUS we soft-launch Emma's stunt-double, Sian Wickersham - tune in!

THIS WEEK: We take a look at the subject of Art with Daisy Wilson from Yr Athrofa, UWTSD, and then talk to just-qualified art teacher, Jack Siddall, who gives us the lowdown on some fantastic work he did on decolonising the art curriculum while he was on the PGCE. Tune in on Friday!

TOMORROW: a slightly belated reflection on Estyn's report on the quality of maths teaching, which landed too late last year to squeeze it into season 7. As always, some poky discussion, not least our colleague Cameron with this...!

Next Friday we'll bring you a discussion of Estyn's recent report into the variability of maths teaching here in Wales. As part of that, recently qualified maths teacher Laurence told us what had brought him into the teaching profession as a career-changer.

WE'RE BACK this coming Friday with season 8, and there's some top-quality episodes lined up. First of all, an update to our 'So you want to become a teacher' episode featuring our colleague Rhian Wyn Griffiths. All your myths busted, all your questions answered. Tune in!

No thank you, academia.edu - if anyone wants to know about this paper, lead author Judith Kneen, the real human version (accept no substitutes) and two co-authors (us) have already made a podcast for people to enjoy: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

We're off for the summer now, but if you haven't already listened, check out Richard West from Stanwell, here telling us why physics is DEFINITELY not a subject only for boys!