To be a bit annoyed at Supply Teacher not having to do any planning?

[ioryou]

I am a Year 4 teacher in a 2 form entry primary school, my year group teacher left at Easter for a job in another school. Therefore, we have a long term supply in until the end of the school year and the school are advertising for a position with a September start. With my previous colleague we shared the planning between us, however I have been told by SLT that I will have to do all planning by myself as the supply only agreed to do the role if she was not required to do the planning. Supply also has been told she will not be subject to book scrutinies and will not need to attend staff meetings after school or INSET days.

AIBU to be a bit annoyed at having to all the planning now? I thought long term supply had the responsibility of planning?

Share the planning with any colleagues or other colleagues that are full salaried teachers?

Unfortunately it's common in every career to be overworked between a colleague leaving and the replacement being up to speed. It's just one of those things - one day you'll likely move jobs and leave someone else similarly in the lurch.

Are the plans etc still there from last year? As it should be a case of check them through, tart them up and use them again. Unless some bright spark has decided to change what you’re teaching.

Honestly, most of us really really don't! Please see my reply 4 above yours. I cringe when I read statements like the one you were referring to.

Supply only get paid for the time children are in school. It is unreasonable to expect them to do unpaid inset days / after school meetings.

When I did supply many years ago I was barely making minimum wage over the year. It is made worse when permanent staff were often actively unkind and unwelcoming.

Yea this. And she isn’t getting paid holidays or into her pension either.

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Unless they are particularly conscientious want a job at the school for the job they are currently supplying

When we had long term supply in they had several levels.
No planning, marking, preparation, meetings or parents evenings
No planning, meetings or parents evenings but did mark and preparation
did all of the above.

All had different pay rates.

It is very likely that your school has gone for the cheapest option.

Yabu - supply often aren’t paid to scale - or get paid into the teacher’s pension. They are not in a contract with the school, therefore not obligated to do this, that’s the nature of supply.
This is something their agency would’ve agreed with the school and not the supply teachers responsibility. The school could’ve filled the position with a fixed term contract until the summer whereby the teacher would be working directly for the school with all of the responsibilities such as planning that come with this, but instead they have opted for supply…

However, I do think you have the right to ask SLT for extra PPA/ report writing time etc. as you are planning for the whole year group. You should get some extra time as I believe that’s only fair.

With all due respect, most teachers have to plan everything themselves. It is temporary until the end of July. You are lucky to have a two form entry where teachers share planning. Supply teaching is poorly paid.

Schools have to pay more if they want supply teachers to plan in my experience. But no supply teacher in their right mind would want to plan anyway. Surely that's the beauty of being on supply that you don't have all that crap. They should give you a bit more time to plan for both classes although in a one form entry, teachers have to plan everything all the time.

Most teachers plan all lessons all by themselves! Would your advice be that most teachers go off sick? There would be barely any left!

That doesn’t seem fair. Not sure what you can do about it aside from vote with your feet though, or go sick.

It's shocking that so many posters have told the OP to go off sick to force SLT to do what she wants. Going off sick in protest when you're not unwell is fraud.

The fact that this is suggested so readily doesn't cover the profession in glory.

There would be barely any left!

That's pretty much true anyway.

Just in case anyone else who is similarly ill informed is reading this thread thinking supply teachers get paid more, they don't.
My M6 rate is £244, (that's salary/195 days)
My supply rate was £135 so no way would I be planning etc!

Paid more? I have 35 years of experience and I get paid as though I were a first year teacher. That’s in Wales where there are rules. In England it could be less. Supply do not in any way get paid more. Plus no sick pay and no pension.

Your teacher colleagues- so if it is a two-form entry school, there will be two full-salaried teachers, each of whom will do half the planning.

Most primary school teachers do not plan all lessons themselves- that would only happen in a one-form-entry school.

I wouldn't say she's lucky- one-form-entry schools are pretty rare.

Not where I am they aren't. They are absolutely the norm. In fact, we have infant and junior schools so teachers have extra subject responsibility as well as assembly and playground duties.

How can you plan for a class you're not teaching? You won't know what they need support with or where their learning needs are for the next week.

How can you plan for a class you're not teaching? You won't know what they need support with or where their learning needs are for the next week.
Personal planning and doing the medium term subject plans aren't the same thing.

My personal planning would be brief notes in my planner if what I'm doing from the medium term planning and reminders of which students I need to work with. That's just for me.

My medium term planning for colleagues to work from was much more detailed. Most supply teachers wouldn't be doing this.

I work in Scotland, but I'd expect long-term supply to do planning, etc.

I'm now a supply teacher myself. I plan the work if I know what classes I have in advance and it's my subject. My experience is that schools often bend over backwards for supply when they're having difficulty attracting staff.

I've not been asked to do reports or parents' evenings, but would be willing to help out. However, I only do two days a week maximum and I'm doing a mixture of covering for my own subject and general supply.

In my previous existence as a middle manager, I had my SLT informing me that the part-time teacher they'd employed for a year would not be taking any period 1 classes (because she had several children) and would not be writing reports.

I smiled sweetly and asked who would be writing the reports. The SLT member concerned look astonished, spluttered and said he'd do the reports. (He was our line manager, but had a different specialism.)

I'd like to think that I did my job well, but my mother didn't raise me to be a doormat.

OP, please speak to your union. Whatever happens, you shouldn't be getting extra work.

DS has a long term supply teacher part of the week. She doesn’t plan, she’s very open about that. She was a full time teacher at the school who retired and then came back as LTS 2 days a week. The other teacher does all the planning because she’s paid to. The supply teacher isn’t paid her full rate so why should she do the job like she is?

In multi-form schools it's fairly common for teachers in the year group to share the planning. Teachers then just tweak to make it more tailored to their specific class where needed,

It would be daft for everyone to do individual planning if there were 2 or 3 classes per year group, when they are all expected to be taught the same thing. It would be a very inefficient way of working.