Do teachers get paid for running revision sessions in the school holiday?

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As the subject says.....just wondering.
Obviously I hope they do, but you hear so much about teachers working so much during school holidays that I wonder where the line is.

While I'm here, thanks to the teachers who are running them; DS2 really benefits.

Some Headteachers really dont get it. They try direct you in your holidays knowing full well they cannot and then try to bribe you with a pittance when you refuse to do it. I illustrated that the money being offered was well below my private tutoring rate (and thats per person!). Why on earth would I fill my optional tutoring slots with inferior paying work?
Apparently as teaching 'is a vocation' and I should 'do it for the children'
My response was to tell the Head that having to beg for free work was a sign of bad management.
For context, I will do free sessions with students I teach who come to me with specific revision problems but I think the large 'show classes' put on after school have little impact. The dilligent kids are just sitting through stuff they already know and the lazy kids can just attend, daydream and go home to Mummy and say how hard they have worked (Not! )

Read that whole convo please. This is how it went:

Poster 1 - suggests pupils take a gift to the teachers going in during their holiday

Me - said my son thanked the teachers and that he would have been mortified if I'd suggested taking a gift.

Poster 2 - suggests taking gifts and cards should be normalised as mark of appreciation.

Me - says normalising 16 yos taking gifts for teachers taking revision sessions is going to take a while. The teacher's "reward" is students by seeing them gain a love of the subject they’re teaching, working hard and gaining a good qualification.

You - takes the whole convo out of context (bringing teachers presents) and concludes I mean that teachers should not be paid.

This is entirely separate to teacher pay, it moved into a discussion about teenagers taking gifts for teachers. I mean really......do you actually think that I meant teachers should not be paid? Really?

My DS takes a present bought by me for his form tutor only. He’s lucky as he has had the same one for 5 years as there is high staff turnover.

I buy £5 Costa card and give it at Xmas and in summer. He writes a card to say thank you and discretely leaves it on her desk!

I realised at Xmas that I needed to up the amount as £5 bought a lot more Costa when he started school in Y7 than it does now he’s in Y11.

Some people are so anti teacher gifts as they say they get paid. So do many people but they get tips or gifts if it is the same person providing a service.

Some schools put a lot of pressure on teachers to provide revision in their own time by saying ‘it’s for the kids’ perhaps if schools were resourced properly with enough teachers and support staff there wouldn’t be need for unpaid holiday sessions.

@welshmercury my son has told me of a few times when either a small group of friends, or a whole class has made a collection for a teacher - say for a wedding, new baby or (as mentioned upthread I think) when their English teacher's mother died. These gestures coming from the students probably mean a great deal to the teachers and I did warm my heart when my son told me.

Schools in my area did. (Scotland)

My school make a half hearted attempt at this but it is normally only offered by core subjects (English & Maths). The second email mentioned pay. The first didn't...

I am a HOD for the first time this year so I didn't even realise it was a thing the school did before.

What surprised me was the email came out pretty close to the holidays - most teachers make holiday plans well in advance! Even if I'd wanted to participate (nope), I couldn't have.