Part Time Teachers, do you go to every parents evening on your day off?

reastie, IIRC, you are in an independent school? The above guidance may therefore not apply, as you are not employed under STPC...

We have several job shares and they all do parents' evenings together.
However, this is primary and it may be different in secondary.

From the NUT:

Additional working time

STPCD (School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document) para 74.7 & 74.8 & STPCD statutory guidance para 143 and 176

The STPCD provides that part time teachers cannot now be required to work or attend non-pupil days on days when they do not normally work (STPCD para 74.7).

They may, however, agree to attend staff/departmental meetings, parents/open evenings and INSET days and other non-pupil days on such days by mutual agreement with the head teacher. Where they do agree to work on days when they do not normally work, this cannot by definition be included in directed time. The STPCD therefore includes a provision for additional payment for this working time. The formula for this payment provides, in effect, for part time teachers to receive 1/1265 of the appropriate full time pay rate for each hour of additional working time.

NUT advice on additional working time on non-teaching days and on the power to make additional payment, including the circumstances when the provision should be used and the appropriate length of additional working time for which payment should be made, is set out later in this guidance.

The STPCD also provides that part time teachers may be directed to work outside school sessions on days when they do normally work (STPCD para 74.8). Situations may, for example, be encountered where teachers who only work the morning session are asked to undertake non-teaching duties after the end of the afternoon session such as attending a meeting. Such directions must, however, be reasonable, both in the context of the general organisation of teachers? non-teaching duties and in the context of the statutory guidance given to head teachers to seek to avoid such situations wherever possible. NUT advice on this issue is set out later in this guidance.

I am a p-t teacher and always do to parents evenings of classes I teach regardless of what day they fall on. I dont think it's relevant what day its on, its part of the workload for that class. I do think its a bit odd that you dont have any appointments and are still expected to go. Maybe its a sort of policy thing i.e.if they take that attitude then they give less wriggle room to thse who try to get out of it in the future.

I have many part-time colleagues who are not willing to be flexible at all and who seem to think they only need to be at shool for their teaching and their designated frees which I think is why my school makes some of the decisions it does about what we have to do.

They're not extra hours, parents' evenings are directed time.

However, full time teachers at my school would certainly not be expected to attend parents' evenings where they had no appointments. That's ridiculous.

So what about the non-part time teachers who have to put in extra hours for parents evening. Is it ok for them to have to put up and shut up but not pt teachers?

You cannot be directed to attend parents' evenings which fall on your day off and you should remind your line manager of this fact. This is assuming your school adheres to the Teachers' Pay and Conditions document (some academies don't).

If they still want you to come in, they have to pay you accordingly.

My daughter's GCSE English teacher is part-time. She is, as far as I am aware, always prepared to go but does try and deal with email/phone instead. If she clears it with all parents that way, she doesn't attend. I have preferred that because, although I have only had two communications over 18 months of any length with her, they were both at important times.

Oh yes I do actually claim back for the Parents' Evenings on my day off!

I go to any that are for kids I teach and have not asked for overtime, though perhaps I should - I did discover recently that I was entitled to for trip I went on (voluntarily) on non-work days. I don't understand why you have to be there if you have no appointments. I would seek clarification from your HR person or have a chat with the head (possibly with union rep in tow if you think it will get tetchy).

I go to Parents' Evenings if they fall on my day off (4 out of 5 do this year ) but I don't go to meetings or twilight INSET if they're on my day off. The rest of the week I go to Dept meetings but not Pastoral, as I don't have a tutor group. I'm 0.6.

It seems like this particular Parents' Evening would be a waste of your time though. On 2 days a week you do NOT have to go to all evening sessions!

I hear you on the workload. I'm drowning

Have you got a union rep you can discuss this with?

When I taught as a part time teacher I'm fairly sure that it was stated in my contract the proportion of out of hours meetings and after school events I was required to attend. As I was teaching 0.6fte this was calculated as 0.6 of the number of meetings/parents evenings etc.

It was then down to me and my line manager to work out which meetings it would be most useful for me to attend each term. I would say if you are unlikely to have any appointments for the evening then your line manager is just making you go to make a point which is unfair.