Tackling Teacher Workload with Katy Edwards and Sarah Cason

It's the end of the road for the 2018-19 PGCE cohort here at Cardiff Met, and that means it's time to put our last PGCE podcast episode out into the world. It's episode 21 and we've somehow managed to send our ramblings out into the world every fortnight since the start of September!

For our final episode we're back out on the road, visiting Katy Edwards and Sarah Cason, Headteacher and Deputy Head of Palmerston Primary School in Barry. Their passion is tackling the thorny problem of teacher workload, and they've spent years building up a culture in their school where they can keep working to ensure that their staff are doing the right things with the finite amount of time they have available.

The discussion ranges over three perennial trouble-spots: marking, planning and data. Katy and Sarah have a number of common-sense approaches to tell us about, and they reflect on the journey they've taken to get the school where it is now, and the mistakes they've made along the way.

Our regular slots are present and correct, and by the last five minutes, the end-of-season fever has fully taken hold and the recording becomes a fairly riotous affair - we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it!

We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who's humoured us and appeared on an episode, especially our academic colleagues, school colleagues and students - and not forgetting those unfortunate colleagues who were doorstepped in their offices to contribute to the pre-recorded packages we put out in episodes 9 and 11.

We'll be back in September with more from the PGCE Podcast, and we'll try to put at least one episode out over the summer, too. If you liked our ramblings this year, please do rate, review and tell your friends. We're @ethayer_cmu and @thomasbreeze on Twitter.

Thanks for listening!

All the best from

Emma & Tom

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This episode was recorded at Palmerston Primary School, Barry on 7th May 2019