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Any primary supply teachers out there?

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faintlyoptimistic · 04/11/2015 21:20

What's it really like?

And would I be mad to give up a permanent part time post for a part time supply post?!

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BelindaBagwash · 05/11/2015 22:54

Depends how much supply work is likely to be available. We are desperately short of supply staff and you could probably work almost full time. Advantage - not being tied to school holidays

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faintlyoptimistic · 07/11/2015 06:44

Yes, I thought it'd be stressful in a different way... I'm currently doing a huge amount of overtime - almost full time hours. I'm trying to weigh up whether supply stresses would be better than so much overtime and class teacher stresses as well!

Don't mind the pay drop... If I got a non-teaching p/t job (also a consideration), it'd pay less.

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BelindaBagwash · 07/11/2015 16:27

The drop in salary would easily be outweiged by the removal of planning, parents evenings, staff meetings and all the other shit obligations that permanent staff have to put up with.

People think we work from 9-3 and have loads of holidays, but the reality is that it's SO inflexible, I can't go to various social events, concerts, cheap holidays etc due to this.

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