Close the Laptop — How I Finally Got My Weekends Back After 10 Years

It's report writing season, and if you're anything like me, that means late nights, a guilty conscience, and a laptop that never seems to actually close.

In this episode, I'm getting really honest about the shift from comment-based reports to evidence of learning, why I genuinely miss writing comments (and yes, we talk about the creatively-worded ones — you know exactly what I mean), and how it took me a full ten years to finally reclaim my weekends.

We get into:
✨ The move to evidence of learning and why parents often struggle to understand what rubrics are actually telling them
✨ Why I'd go back to comment-based reports in a heartbeat (especially with AI now available)
✨ The difference between primary and secondary teacher workloads
✨ How to schedule marking and report writing during work hours
✨ The simple boundaries that helped me get my evenings and weekends back
✨ The delay-send email trick every teacher should know
✨ Why the "12 weeks holiday" argument doesn't tell the full story

If you're buried under work samples, rubrics, and reports right now, this episode is for you. There is a better way—and it starts with one small boundary at a time.

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