Any experience of a split week?

[bluechameleon]

I have been asked by SLT if I would consider working Monday, Thursday and Friday next year. This is to fit in with the working days of another part time teacher they want to pair me with. I am keen to be paired with her because I am currently paired with a TA3 so bear all the admin workload. My main concern is that it would be disjointed going in on Monday then not being back until Thursday. Another issue is that staff meetings are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and I have felt quite disconnected missing all meetings this year so was hoping to go to some next year. Has anyone worked a split week like this? How was it?

Well looking at the positives - you'd get all the bank holiday Mondays!

I'd raise the staff meeting day one as you won't be the only job share affected by that - my old school changed their staff meeting pattern to alternate days in order to even up the staff meeting load between job share partners when someone pointed this one out to them (the halves of the equation who'd missed them all were slightly less pleased with this development than the other halves!)

Seems shit for the kids, but could you see your days as Thursday Friday Monday instead of having a gap, so planning the week Tues-Mon instead of Mon-Fri?

I’d ask the school if they could change one of the meeting days, as making you miss them all would be horrendous.

Pantsy - there's only one bank holiday day in the whole year that's in term time!

Depends how your term dates fall halla - we've had a couple with the way terms have landed round here this year - but we're mid-transition to some new term dates arrangement so everything's gone a bit pear shaped this academic year running through (we're right on the border of like 4 LEAs so now everyone's doing odd things with their terms I never know if I'm coming or going with it all these days!)

As someone else has said, there's only one Bank Holiday that falls in term time. But if your school tends to schedule its Inset days on Mondays, then you'd benefit (I suppose) in that you can go to them on what is your normal working day.
Other than that, it depends what your weekend plans tend to be. With those days, you could never nip off for a long weekend anywhere. Is that an issue? Would be for me.

The idea of a PP is good to plan your week Tues-mon!!!! I wouldn't have thought of that xx

This to me seems the worst possible pattern of job sharing and the lack of consistency for the children will be huge-you are going to have to spend hours on the phone or emailing each other for day to day catch ups-I can’t see it working tbh and think your workload when you factor in your need for daily catch ups about children’s progress/safeguarding issues/other stuff would go up massively. And who will be accountable for the children’s progress etc etc

Also-what happens if you feels it’s not working? Would you be able to change it?