What hours do you do in school??

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What time do you arrive and leave on a typical day?

I'm KS1 private school. I usually arrive at 7-7.15, kids do 8.30-3.15 and on a non-meeting day, I aim for a 4.45-5pm leave.

I do 8-5.30, state primary, but if i’ve got something that needs to be done that night, but in all honestly I probably spend an hour each day after school chatting and catching up with staff. We tend to meet in my room at 3.30 with a cuppa

Meant to say, if I’ve got something that needs to be done that night I’ll stay till 6.

FE college - head of Alevels & Access. In for 6.00am and leave at 5.30pm (MWF) and 9.00pm (TT - evening classes) Try not to take work home but work Sunday PM & evenings. Too much IMO

Secondary middle leader. Our school day is 09:15 to 16:40. Staff have to be in from 09:00 to 17:40.

I arrive at either 07:45 or 08:20 (depending on which bus I take). Leave at 17:45 unless there's a meeting or things like Parents' Evening / concerts / GCSE options talk which run on until later.

Do lots of work at home, as most of our free periods get taken for cover.

Private primary, abroad.
On Mondays I'm covering breakfast club...so arrive at 7.30am.
Other days I arrive at 8am.
I generally leave at 5pm, because I have to collect DS from nursery at that point. We are usually on duty during break/lunchtime but I get 30 minutes break after the kids have had their lunch. So not really much time to mark. Kids leave at 3pm.
We've got staff meetings on Tuesdays, so tend to leave at around 6pm (DS joins me during the last part of the meeting). Fridays, I could in theory go home at 1pm. However, I prefer to finish stuff and stay till about 4.30pm. Not taking anything home..and I'm doing 4 days per week on a 0.9 contract.

Secondary maths here. I'm in school 8:30-4:30. I then do 8-10 at home, sometimes longer, depending how much marking I've got to do. Sixth form marking night is probably more like 3/4 hours, but y7 marking night, I can do 2 classes in a couple of hours.

When I've got reports or UCAS references to write they need to be done at weekends usually, or I might miss a week of marking one or two classes books.

Independent secondary SLT. 07:45-5pm on a non meeting day (sometimes 5:30 but try to ensure home by 6pm as kids at school with me). Work 2 hours a night at home if not meeting night but trying to cut this down to 1

I'm in primary - normally 8-4 or 4.30 and I don't take any work home if at all possible

8.30-4.15. Kids are around from 9.20-4.05. One day I work till 5. I have to fit it around my young DC so at certain times a year I take a lot of work home or go in on a Saturday to write reports

This makes an interesting read. I have just left a state secondary on middle management, after 20 yrs, where I worked from about 7.45-4.15( worked through lunch and break due to nature of role) and then an hour or two most nights and an afternoon at weekends, unless report/ review time when heaps more.

Just Moving to an independent secondary on a small responsibility but hoping to do similar hours and bring less home. We get an actual lunch hour at this school so hope it be able to get some marking down. Marking, or lack of. Was my downfall previously, although luckily it wasn't reflected in my results.

State secondary. I'm logging in at 6am for emails planning etc.
In school by 7.15 to set up for the day.

I always take a break of at least half hour at lunchtime, and do all marking, support, meetings 3.30-4.30 so I can leave by 5.00pm to go and pick up my kids.

I never take work home but do online stuff in the evenings sometimes.

I'm sure someone will be along to tell us others have it worse.

I go in 07:15/30 to about 17:00 on average.

State - I did 7.30 to 5.30 plus stuff at home in the evenings and around 8 hours at the weekend (more at report time etc).

Private - 8 to 5. No evening work (except for report writing times) and 2 hours at the weekend.

Arrive at my desk 06:30 am. I left this evening at 19:45.
I think I need to start staying till 20:00 at least.
Also need to do more work once I'm home in the evening.
In my last job, I was often at my desk at 05:45 am.

Why?
Heavy timetable, an impossible workload and too many meetings eating into planning time.

Bunny car are you serious?? That is simply unmanageable for your health. I hope you've spoken to your line manager; I'm surprised the buildings even open those hours. 7.15-5.15 is what I consider a long day with working through all breaks where possible. I'm always there at 7.15 but leave between 4-5.15.

FE here (new position so I can only give you an indication of the first week!) I arrive at 8.20 having dropped my children off at 8am. Lessons start 8.45. Lessons finish at 4pm I leave about 4.30pm but this is based on the first week of teaching with no homework to mark. I’m sure it will get more intense!

I have been working 8pm to 10.30pm to make up for not staying late

Secondary

In at 7:30, leave at 4. School day is 8:45-3:05pm so I normally get a fair bit done.

Might work at home 2/3 evenings for a couple of hours each time. This goes up loads near various mocks and exam times.

I'm part time though, 3.5 days a week. My half day I clean the house, and try not to use my day off to catch up on marking etc.

I'm lucky, school has sensible honework and marking policy so it's manageable.

@ Olivio Marking, or lack of. Was my downfall previously, although luckily it wasn't reflected in my results.

Now let’s open that hornet’s nest. 🐝

Independent secondary. In for 8am, leave anytime between 5 and 6.30. Lots of evening functions (one a fortnight on average, sometimes more) which entail staying until 8 or 9pm. I don't do anything at the weekend if I can avoid it.

Oh and I don't work in the evenings either!

Head of year. I'm meant to do 8.30-4.30. I actually do 7.50-4.50.

Bunnycar how long is your school open?? Mine opens at 7:30 and closes at 6. I’ve never heard of a school being open from 6am until 8pm

Secondary English here. Start at 7.30 and leave at 5.30. No work on evenings and weekends unless something has piled up, which it rarely does. I work in a lovely school that cares about work/life balance. Last school I was clocking up 70 hours weeks and it nearly killed me.

KS1 state primary

Arrive 8.20am and leave at 5pm

Mark during my lunchtime if not done during the lesson. Once my son leaves schoo, next year I'll go in earlier and hopefully leave earlier.

This is a really helpful thread. I'm thinking of getting back to teaching after being in pastoral for many years but the way some teachers devote every waking minute to the job really makes me uneasy, especially now i have a family. It's good to know that it can be done within a reasonable time frame. I've always liked getting in nice and early when it's quiet too.