Directed time help please!

[Nagoo]

XH is teacher in primary.

He claims that he cannot get out of school before 1800 and or 1700 on any of the three days that he is supposed to have the children overnight.

How likely is this to be true please?

It won't all be strictly directed, he would be 'allowed' to leave if he wanted, but in reality I can rarely leave before 6 due to workload of stuff needing to be done at school.

Staff meetings are part of "directed time". Ours finishes about 5.30pm (if we are lucky!), so I can't leave before then on those days.

I suppose you need to ask yourself if he should get the children sooner, but then spend time preparing, so not giving them his attention. 5.30 to 6.00 doesn't sound late to me tbh, and would be normal or even early for someone in an office job.

I'm a teacher and I leave school at 4:30 every evening unless I have a meeting or a parents' evening. Marking and prep can happen at home once the dc are in bed, that's how many, many teachers manage.

Yep, his hours sound pretty standard. In fact, getting out the door for 5pm some nights is doing well.

I know of a couple of schools where the teachers are expected to mark each piece of work in detail every day. They are expected to stay on sight to do this. They then have to show the days marking, if requested, to the Head or Deputy before they can leave. This staying until 7pm every night becomes standard.

And then there are Acadamies and their variation of timetables as well as compulsory after school clubs.

Although we are allowed to leave around 3.30 it is pretty frowned upon (secondary).
Directed time is for staff meetings, parents evening and faculty stuff. Twice a week we would all be in until 5-6 at least.
Saying that we all go home at 2.3o on a Friday including senior management.

Saying that we all go home at 2.3o on a Friday including senior management. Friday is the night I seem to work latest!

He might have meetings and clubs on those days. The clubs might be able to be rearranged but the meetings probably won't.

Thank you all. Im not talking about marking time or prep, and he has no clubs he does after school. It's these ambiguous 'meetings' that occur three days a week. when I know he's been to tescos and not stayed at school and that's why he's late for his pick ups or not in when I try to deliver the children

Thank you though. :)

I would have thought meetings 3 days a week til 5pm would be unusual. Our school try not to have more than 1 meeting a week for classroom teachers, and even heads of department only ever have 2 in a week.

My primary has one staff meeting, one KS / Year group meeting which is part of the team planning, plus I have a SLT meeting each week.

Is the school an academy OP? I have heard that can change the conditions of employment.

I work in a secondary school where lessons finish at 4pm. Once a week we have department meeting and once a week a whole school meeting. Heads of department and senior management will meet another evening. Once a week I will run an intervention session for year 11 once a week for year 10 these last for up to an hour. Any detentions after school can be up to an hour.
So quite easily I can stop teaching at 5pm then I need to start marking/planning.

So not at all unreasonable IMO