Payment for KIT days when on Maternity Leave?

[Dysgu]

I am currently on Maternity Leave from work. I am a primary school teacher on UPS3 +Tlr 2 (the minimum amount; is that 2a or 2c?)

I am now officially in the additional maternity leave bit where I am only paid SMP instead of receiving a percentage of my normal salary. I have been off work for 6 months but am not going back to work until the end of December.

I have agreed to go into work for the next 2 INSET days (tomorrow and Wednesday) and to work 8 other KIT days between now and returning to work. I am happy to do all these days.

However, does anyone know how I get paid for these days. I have a form to complete to keep a track of which days I work and HT has a form to send to payroll. KIT days don't affect my ML but do they affect my SMP? Will I be paid SMP + daily rate of teaching? Will they calculate how much I would earn (i.e. I am only doing 2 KIT days in September, the others will be mostly in November and December) so will they calculate 2 days wages, calculate SMP and see if there is any difference. So if SMP is c£500 pcm and my 2 days come to c£300, would I not get anything extra for working?

If this makes sense to anyone, please help!!

Thanks!

SMP not affected by KIT days, so you'll get you £500 SMP plus daily rate for however many days you've worked that month.

Pension contributions, which the company are paying atm, may get taken out of the KIT pay (they did at my company, teaching may well be different), as will childcare vouchers if your already claiming them.

Thank you - I thought that was what would happen but then I got to thinking and started wondering whether I was working for nothing! (Oh no, that won;t happen until I go back and we have to pay for the nanny! :-)

Thanks (phew!)