Were you / would you be expected to send in planning when on jury service?

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Colleague starts jury service tomorrow and school has asked she plans all lessons. All lessons will be covered by TA.

Is this normal?

It’s planned absence so yes I’d expect to provide work, am secondary though

All lessons covered by a TA?

The school do understand a trial could be weeks or even months - not all cases take a few days. If she is allocated one of those cases, that is her full time responsibility. Will the school also be expecting the teacher to do the marking as well? I'd imagine a Crown Court Judge would take a dim view of an exhausted teacher in a courtroom due to a school expecting them to hold down two full time jobs simultaneously...

Thank you for the responses.

We don't mark books so colleague will not be required to do any marking.

Yes, all lessons covered by a TA, save for when TA is giving physio to a pupil.

Another colleague also has an upcoming planned absence - a 4 week holiday in February (agreed as was booked before her appointment) and has not been asked to provide any planning. This absence will be covered by an unqualified teacher.

Is it paid or unpaid absence? That would make a difference.

I did jury service - it was paid absence so I was expected to provide cover lessons, fair enough.

If colleague had unpaid leave then I suppose they don't need to provide set work (though I would probably set some initially)

Absolutely.
The teacher should have coordinated with the TA already.
Not tried to pull a fast one and leave them to it.

There is tons of waiting around time on jury service too if that helps? Like you turn up at 8.45 and nothing happens until 11 and then you get sent home at lunchtime. Lots of time to read/mumsnet/plan. It varies of course but I have done it twice.

I did jury service whilst teaching secondary years and years ago. Initially there was loads of waiting around and dead time so I was effectively teaching remotely i.e. planning everything and marking. However, I then got selected for a trial and was in court all day everyday. At that point I called a halt to the remote teaching as I was already doing a full time job! Luckily, the school paid me for the time although they would have been within their rights to tell me to claim jury allowance.

We’ve had two teachers out in the last year and both provided cover lessons.

The vast majority of jury services are under two weeks.

I assume JS is paid and the holiday unpaid.

Teacher has briefed TA already (she's actually 'my' TA so I'll be without her for up to 2 weeks, which is far from ideal).

I think the js should do the planning before they leave as they're being paid.

I think the holiday teacher should give an outline of what she/he wants to be covered while they're off, but not do all the planning. They've been given time off, which is not something most heads would allow.