Calling supply teachers....

[ja9]

I've just registered as a supply teacher and a school has contacted me about working a day next week. The secretary said in passing that the headteacher would probably pay me for a 5 hr day rather than a 7 hr day as she wasnt expecting any preparation or marking. I thought that a days supply teaching was a days supply teaching - anyone else heard of this. I was a bit taken aback but just agreed to it anyway - i'm new to it all, but the more i think about it the more i feel a bit peeved about it. School is 9 15 to 3:15, so i'll not be paid for the lunch break. Is this standard practice?

think this is standard practice
teachers aren't paid for their lunchbreaks either on a regular contract
have never heard of extra hours and getting more money for doing so ( the marking and being supply I mean)

Not done supply teaching in schools but I have been doing some in prison ed. I only gor paid for the hours I was teaching, not for my lunch break nor for the 15 minutes break in each session. Think it may be standard.

You can either be paid hourly rate or your salary divided by 195 days-different schools do different things.

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so being paid for 5 hrs for a full days teaching is std then and i shouldnt be feeling hard done by?

I've always been paid for the 7 hour day and think you're right to feel miffed

(but I did just hear that someone in the school you're off to do supply in is preggers so you never know, it could lead to a job!)

I used to get paid a daily rate calculated like this;

take your annual salary (if you were working full time in permanent job) and divide by the number of school days. (195 I thinks). This means that if you worked every single day then you would get the same money as if you were on a permenant contract iyswim.

This was 10 years ago though!