Teachers to get 1 day off per fortnight in a School in Solihull!

[dottydodah]

Not a Teacher but friends/family are.Just wondering whether this would make a difference to those who are thinking of leaving (many are!) YABU Wouldnt make a jot of difference to me .YANBU May help me to stay

Well, fair enough then! I don’t see how it’ll reduce workload, surely the teacher will still have to do all the planning for that day, all the marking when they get back, possibly reteach whatever lesson was missed, deal with the backlog of behavioural issues which weren’t dealt with in their absence, put their classroom back together again, and find all their equipment and resources which have been moved and changed! It’s probably easier to just be there 🤷🏼‍♀️

How would they cover form time/ tutor groups? Unless they had an assembly in the hall. The registers would nees taking though.
Would need staff to cover reg every day.

I can see it working by nobody having Maths on a Wednesday or half of maths off on a Wednesday. The other Thursday or the like. We would have enough staff for that.

Form timw absences are covered by HODs. This is because its rare. I can't see them wanting to do this every morning on a rolling basis.

Is this not discrimination against part timers? I mean why would anyone go part time when you can get a paid day off every fortnight?

'Is this not discrimination against part timers? I mean why would anyone go part time when you can get a paid day off every fortnight?'

I guess they could have a morning or afternoon'off' paid. The part time equivalent.

Unless the workload is reduced I don't see how the school cant be expecting teachers to work on this "day off"

My son's old school operate a four day week (still open five days).

In addition to the reduction in working days, there will also be changes made to pupils' timetables – with lessons increasing from one hour to 75 minutes.

Does this mean they will be dropping at least one period a day from timetables?

We had 4 1h 10 minute lessons in the 90s.

That's my old school.

I have nothing else to add to the thread but wanted to announce that 😂

Hmm as a teacher I just read the ‘PPA will not be affected’ and figured it means they will have all their PPA together once a fortnight. Just a sensationalist piece

If that was the case then it would say PPA would be affected, surely?

As a teacher I would absolutely hate to have all my PPA in one go once a fortnight. School is too busy for that, I need it spread out throughout the week.

Well PPA is 5 hours a fortnight. Sometimes it’s 3 hours on one day and nothing for 7 days in secondary. Why would a newspaper/Academy muddy the waters and imply teachers will get a super deal? Just shortly before unions decide whether to strike again? And whilst a secondary school (possibly with lots of vacancies) is looking to recruit?

Hmmm. No idea.

I really hope it is true. And I really hope it is manned by senior staff, so they can see what a full day of teaching really is like.

I would prefer 1 ppa a day out of 5 lessons vs all in one day.

Here is another one.

www.itv.com/watch/news/inside-one-of-the-first-schools-which-allows-teachers-to-have-a-day-off-every-two-weeks/chclq4m

I can only speak for a couple of schools but not every one is a form tutor. Ignoring heads of year and SLT, the main school I TT for has 5 or 6 part time staff and 3 ECTs who don't have tutor groups but can fill in for part time staff or cover.