Teachers, how many hours do you work per day?

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I work .6 so the equivalent of 3 days. As a part timer, there is always a tendency to fill the time. I am trying to do 3 days in 27 hours per week. It's so hard! I still have so much to do and could quite easily work 35 hours plus.
On 27 hours, my salary works out at £16 per hour.
So is 9 hours a day a reasonable target?
Please can you tell me how many days you do and how many hours on average you do per day?

Job share in Ireland
9.00-2.40 for 3 days one week and 2 days then next. So 12.5 hours pay per week.
I arrive anytime between 8.20 -8.45
I leave at 3.15/3.30
All staff are gone by 4 and school is locked by 4.30.
I don’t take work home.

Ireland you say? Can I transfer my teaching qualification to Ireland?
When can I move?

@Flamingo yes;
There are two requirements to teach in Ireland for primary and they are

1. you will need to complete your Irish language training
2. You might need a religious certification to teach in catholic schools (which the majority are)

For secondary I think it’s the same as U.K....no Irish required (unless you are teaching Irish obvs)

Bugger. I don’t speak one word of Irish and I have no faith.

I also only have QTS and not a PGCE.

@Lipperfromchipper we're all v jealous!

@FlamingoAndJohn why would you need a pgce target than qts?

Rather not target

Well normally people have a PCGE as well as QTS.
Having QTS only means I can only teach in England as far as I know.

In Ireland too. 8.30 to 3.30. When teaching in UK I did 8 to 6 then again at the weekends. You don't need Irish or religion for secondary. It's been a life transformer too moving here. Am mortified when I think of all the useless shite I had to do in UK.

27 hours seems very optimistic for a 0.6 contract.

When I was in school (Primary) I would stop when I got to 36 hours over a week when I worked 0.6. It seemed proportional to a 60 hr FT week.

Full time hours in primary here in Ireland are 25!! 🙈

How are they spread out through the week, Lipper?

8.30 - 5.30 5 days a week. Monday - Wednesday, I do an hour or 2 in the evenings too, then i get too tired. A couple of hours on Sunday usually as well. About 50ish hours a week.

@DrMadelineMaxwell 9.00-2.40. We take 40 mins breaks in a day (10min break, 30min lunch) and we are technically not paid for those (but we take them...I have never known a teacher here to work through their lunch unless it’s their turn for duty) so 5 hours contact time...25 hours.

I'm at school from 7 - 5 usually each day. I work about 5 - 8 hours at home a week too.

I often work through break/lunch too.

I'm in school by 8, leave at around 5.30. I do go to lunch so take around 45 minutes as a break but work about 9 hours a day, with on average one late night a fortnight (so in school till 8ish).

I don't take much home though, and rarely work at the weekends. I check my emails more than I should though - I find it difficult to switch off.

Jealous of the hours in Ireland. My school (primary) day runs from 8.55 to 3.15 with 50 mins for dinner and 15 mins break time.