Do teachers get paid for running revision sessions in the school holiday?

My DD is teaching a maths revision day but won’t get paid for it. Personally, as a retired teacher myself, I think she’s crazy but she wants to help her students.

My school don't pay. I refused to go in this year. HoD now being frosty and it's just awkward all round.

It’s not amazing that they get hardly any time off in the Easter break. Would you go six months without a day off from work apart from weekends? Most people don’t.

They’re probably being coerced into it, or think they can’t say no.

Yes, sorry, I guess I was saying if SLT aren't buying a gift, there's no way anyone should be expecting children to come to revision sessions with a gift in hand. That would also be a weird expectation.

SLT most certainly wouldn't be buying the staff a gift, that would be weird. They could provide tea, coffee, milk and biscuits for the staffroom, if you have one. We only get free tea and coffee on a Monday morning briefing and at parents' evenings.

Totally disagree that it's necessary to take a gift. It isn't the children's fault that staff are doing this unpaid. SLT can thank the staff or 'buy them a little gift'.

I do at my current school, I've just done some revision sessions this holidays and I will be paid next month. My school also runs a summer school for year 6s coming up and we get paid for that too.

Any teacher doing stuff for free in the holidays is being taken advantage of - we are NOT being paid in the holidays, we are paid for 195 work per year, split into 12 equal monthly payments. And before anyone says anything, 39 weeks per year with 60 hours a week work is still more hours a year than 48 weeks per year at 40 hours per week. And we don't get holiday pay.

Thanking people and giving them gifts/cards of appreciation needs to be normalised.

I’m so sorry to hear this. Are you a member of a union? If so, have you contacted your rep? The school is taking a piss and I hope this doesn’t happen to you again.

We have staff at my child’s school who were on a trip the first week of the Easter hols and next week they are running some revision sessions. Amazing teachers!

I teach Year 6 and I would have burst out laughing if I’d been asked to run a SATs revision course this week unpaid.
We need to make proper use of the NEU, there is absolutely no way this should be happening.

That’s plain wrong, @Whenwherewhy.

If you’d not done it the SLT would have acknowledged that.

Did 4 hour revision class today. Did not get paid. Did not get thanked or even acknowledged by SLT.

Secondary school teacher in Scotland here. We get paid if we offer them, not lots though. I have not this year.

My children are attending at their school. We do a McDonald's run and take the teacher in a coffee!

Whether you agree with how teachers are paid or not.
Teachers can only be directed on how to use their time during the 195 days.
Not the holidays that they have.

THIS! Why don't people realise that this is the reality of teaching at the moment? This is why nobody wants to be a teacher. This is why your kids are being taught Physics by teachers with no Physics degree, or Spanish by a Drama teacher. This is why teachers are leaving the profession in droves.

But the instant we go on strike to protest the terrible conditions? Or even just demand a little more pay to cover just some of the additional work we have to do? Or refuse to do some of the additional work? We are slammed and shamed, and dubbed a drain on tax payers' money.

Sorry - which teachers are claiming they don't like having long holidays? What are they not being honest about? All teachers like having long holidays. What they don't like is working hours and hours of overtime every week and yet still being treated as though they are lazy arses who knock off at 3pm and get paid for 13 weeks of holiday.

Your point about the 30k/12 is irrelevant. If teachers were paid their hourly rate for all the hours they actually work, they would earn a shitload more than they do.

The Turing fund.

So…pretty much the same as every other salaried person then? The difference is, we work all of those days except the 5 weeks and you don’t? Whether you call it a 10 month contract paid over ten months, a teacher earning 30k a year gets 30/12 every month. Just as a finance administrator earning 30k a year gets 30/12 every month.

I don’t have an issue with the holidays, perk of the job and all that, but I do wonder why so many aren’t honest about it. I have several friends who are teachers who are quite clear, one thing they love about the job are the long holidays.

No. So if your kid is going in, give them a little gift to take!

Yes this is riddiculous you must contact your union and not let this happen again.

It’s bad enough being roped into refusing classes on your oldest but you definitely should’ve put your food down about the trip to Italy.

“had to put my pets in boarding and renew my passport as it was out of date. I couldn’t afford this (the passport or the boarding fees) but was not reimbursed, even though school paid for every single thing for the PP children, including passports, new bags, new clothes and all their toiletries!”

That is appalling. As horrendous as your senior leadership sounds I think you /more teachers need to have more of a backbone as well and stand up to blatant mistreatment.

And how are some children getting to go to Italy for free in some schools when other schools are struggling to buy the basics?! The Pupil premium is not usually used for trips abroad from what I understand?

Do your rep training, and then you can hold them to account. I've been lumbered with doing the directed time calendar but at least I know we're under.