Primary job share - organisation

[millimat]

If you are in a job share at primary, how do you divide the subjects and teaching?
Our workload is ridiculous and I'm looking at ways to reduce it.
What works / doesn't work for you?

Do you have PPA together? Is it a single form entry school?

Single form entry. Joint ppa for a whole hour!

If you are in Y1-6 I would look at splitting subjects - when I have job shared it has worked out quite well that way; so for instance I might have done Science and Art/DT and my partner Topic and PE.

We have also sometimes split English and Maths though that is a bit more difficult now with the way that most primaries now teach those subjects. It definitely work better to split what you can and so just one person has the responsibility for planning and assessing certain areas of the curriculum.

In another job share I did one of us planned(and resourced) English and the other did Maths, then when the block or text was finished we would swap. That worked really well as long as you are on the same wavelength and the quality of planning from both people is good.

We split the reports as well and the data entry, taking turns per half term with the other checking and adjusting if they felt differently (we did this after data was taking hours as we over analysed each child!)

We have a 2/3day split. I teach wed-fri.
We don’t see each other at all, so meet every holiday to plan a weekly overview for English and Maths, plotting what we will cover each day. Then we plan our own days and email complete plans to each other.
My colleague plans and teaches topic and science/ PE on Mon and Tues afternoons, and I fit everything else into my days.
2 form entry (Y3) and our year group colleague benefits a lot from our organisation, planning and resources!

We talk regularly on the phone though and email with updates.

Split the subjects, so one teacher does the art, one the music, one the Geog, on RE, etc etc.
Can work to some extent even in math - one doing the numberwork, one the more practical topics etc.
The least crossover you can, so each of you can take books home / plan lessons ahead / adjust from where they last got to, etc.

We used to split maths and English topics but aren't allowed to any more