Secondary teachers - how many periods do you teach?

[Lucycat]

At the moment we are, amidst ever tightening budgets and redundancies, considering moving from a 43 period teaching timetable to a 44 - in a 50 period fortnightly timetable. I was just curious what other schools do? Have your schools got any amazing ideas to raise revenue? Apart from a Euromillions ticket....

I know Lucy - it's insane. We have had endless twilight sessions, because apparently we are 'under directed time'. Half the maths bods are frantically doing calculations trying to work out how/why they reckon this. Frankly I'd rather come back a day earlier for INSET each term than apparently make it up by an extra four 2 hour twilights each time. It is killing. This last two terms has been shocking. Unfortunately our unions are pathetic - or at least members are. Last NUT strike? We have 14 NUT members in school that I know about, and 2 of us were out. The rest went in to work, saying it didn't do any good and they couldn't afford to lose a day's pay. Well maybe not, but in my mind if your union calls for a strike you have to support it. People need to stand together if they want the unions to support them.

Rosieposy4
Lockedout, so basically you get no frees at all, no time to discuss with colleagues or phone parents, your school are taking the piss. Yeah it's a pain. We have to do all of our meetings before or after school as most lunchtimes we have duties or intervention but I have Tuesday lunchtimes free to call or meet with parents as well as before or after school. The study group is well behaved so I can get on with marking, planning, data, emails, etc. but sometimes individuals in the group need help - anxiety has been an issue recently, for example.

53/60 (fortnight cycle). Language teacher, no TLR.

Meant to add, Monday is Dept meetings, Tuesday we have 'voluntary' teaching and learning meetings voluntary my arse and We'd, Thurs and Fri is KS4 revision until 4:30.

Yep, we're exhausted. No, we say nothing so that we (my Dept) don't get labelled as whingers. There have been redundancies every year for the last 5 years with competitive interviews pitching good teachers against one another. It's a bit soul-destroying.

24/30 (English dept)- however one period is a mentor meeting with our PGCE student of the moment + one period is a meeting with HOD as am second in department and it's generally the only proper catch up we have. Also get cover at least once every few weeks. No wonder I feel that I can't get any marking or work done. Next year we'll apparently be 'over-staffed' by a few periods however as I'm intending to ask for a pay rise, (second in dept and TLR of £2,106 instead of average £4k+) not sure the Head will give me an extra period as well

Just coming back to say, do watch out for whether or not form time is included in your 'teaching time'. I only found out (just before I left) that in my last job it wasn't counted.
Also contact your union rep for a breakdown of your 1265 hours of you are in doubt.
My school got us to fill in a spreadsheet two years ago as to what we did - suffice to say, we didn't get asked to do it again because we were all doing well above the required hours.