Primary Deputy Head - how much release?

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Old poster / new name.

Please can I ask for some information regarding the amount of release time you get as a primary Deputy Head or the DH gets at your school?
Plus some other relevant information:
How big is your school?
What other major responsibilities you have? (e.g. SENCo, Safeguarding lead, KS leader, Eng/Maths leader, Assessment leader)
How big is your SLT / are there AHT/s?
I am really struggling with my workload and want to research whether my teaching commitment is usual for the other responsibilities I’m carrying. The governors feel the nature of the role and the pay scale I am on justifies the hours a week I need to work to get both roles done, with very little non-teaching release beyond my PPA. I am posting several threads to reach as wide an audience and get a bigger picture of what is happening in other schools before I decide whether I need to discuss this further with governors, HT and union. Many thanks.

Just commented on this in primary ed!

Thank you - your experiences are very different from mine!

I'm acting deputy (maternity cover) in a very small school - 97 pupils. I get a morning management release time in addition to my afternoon of PPA so I get a day a week out of class.

To be honest, I'm not completely sure which subjects I'm responsible for - I know it's Maths and about half a dozen core subjects, school council and I'm implementing talk for writing across the school. Prior to being deputy I did school council plus all foundation subjects on a basic tlr but no extra time.

I've been very pleasantly surprised so far by how little extra work I've had this term!! In fact, I've been using much of my management release time to do one to one assessments with my class. However, I have spent large chunks of evenings and weekends doing things like preparing the talk for writing workshop or researching the new IT resources I need to buy. But that's largely because I know I work more effectively that way.

It may also be because the acting head (former deputy) isn't fantastic at delegation so I suspect there are things that she hasn't passed on to me. But I'm not complaining"

We are a 3 form intake primary (yR-6). We have one full time deputy who doesn't have a class and three full time assistant heads who do not have classes; the AHs do some teaching-eg a taking group from the top of the top set maths x 4 times a week. One does NQT mentoring and another oversees pupil premium funding.