Secondary teachers - when did you/will you get next year's time table?

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^ Just that really.

Haven't got mine yet. Have seen it on SIMS (they think we don't know how to look) but it changes daily. And will probably still change in September. I am planning for the classes I think I will have but who knows really.

I went to my new school on Friday and for mine, I was impressed I was on sims already! Even got KS3 class lists just not KS4/5 yet.

I teach abroad so we finished 2 weeks ago. On the last day I got a draft timetable for next term. In previous years the draft has been about 75%/80% accurate so all in all I can get most of my lessons planned for the first month of next term. i know which year groups I am teaching, but not necessarily which sets.

I got a wrong one on Wednesday and what I think is a right one yesterday. Last day of term so all planning will need to be done in the holidays.

I finished yesterday and had to hunt down the member of department holding them to see it yesterday morning. Good job I did because they have totally changed my days and hours - after assuring me everything would be the same as this year. I have compromised a little and left school yesterday very upset. It is a crap timetable with all the people in senior posts taking the 'best' classes (A-level teaching, extension groups etc). I've been given all shared classes and no follow through from this year. I am used to teaching in schools where classes were shared fairly. Everyone had a mix of lower and upper ability, and anyone who wanted and/or was qualified to was given the option of teaching throughout KS3-5.
Am in the process of writing a scathing e-mail to HoD (not sure it will be sent yet though!).

Thats crap negri, my last school was like that, only certain staff got the decent classes. At my current school they are shared out equally, eg you have top set y11, you will get a low/bottom set y10. Really bad that they hadn't even let you know which groups you were getting until now.

Thanks for that Rosieposy - have to put it out of my mind now until September.

I don't have my timetable yet but as I teach at a very small SEMH school I know I'm teaching all 7 classes (year 7, year 8/9, year 9, year 10X2 and year 11x2), about 40 students in total.