Primary 0.5 contract teaching hours?

[RedRug1972]

Hi,
I’m starting a new job in September and am doing 2.5 days ( primary). This will include 2 full days and a morning. PPA will be within that timeframe.

I’m not sure what the exact session times are but know that there is about 45 -60 minutes less teaching time in the afternoon.
Can anyone please tell me how I / the school can make sure that hours are fairly calculated? I don’t want to do unpaid extra just because the morning is longer!
How are half days usually split?
TIA

You will have 1/2 of your 1265 directed hours. Might mean you teach a bit longer but attend fewer other meetings etc.
Does depend how much longer of course.

If you are in a school with a very short afternoon, then you need to go back and ask that question now - if it worth a different teacher doing an hour before lunch, but not really coming in for 15mins at end of a morning, for example.
Possibly (will depend on childcare and other commitments) work a 2 days one week, 3 days the next rotation ? Or swap the shared day on alternate weeks you do the morning or the afternoon ?
Will all depend on how you can best work it with your job share.

Sorry, I should’ve said in my OP as it’s obviously relevant- it’s teaching interventions so no job share partner or class to consider.

That might make it easier to adapt teaching hours based on that calculation. Thanks.

Oh, in that case it is easy.
Total teaching hours divided by two
No need for anyone to be covering anything.

Thanks. I’m just hoping they won’t assume that I’ll treat the full morning as half a day as I should finish teaching at about 11.45 I reckon!

It is directed time hours rather than teaching hours.

It's directed time not teaching hours. Don't forget meetings etc.

Yes, they might give you more teaching hours and less meeting times - if you are specifically doing one job and not needed at staff meetings etc. The total directed time is the key.

The pay and conditions document states that part-time hours have to be calculated from the aggregate teaching time that pupils are taught, so on a 0.5 contract you are entitled to halve the normal teaching hours on one day.

X-post with a few people. Look at the DfE pay and conditions document, available online. It definitely states that part-time hours are calculated on the basis of hours that pupils are normally taught, not directed time. I had to check this myself just this week.

Thanks all. I didn’t expect staff meetings to count they don’t for full time teachers but I only intend to go to half the staff meetings ( or less if they’re not relevant). I will email the HT and ask what the total number of teaching hours is in a full day.

Photo of relevant paragraph.

I'm not a teacher but work part time, set days. If a team meeting is on my day off I don't go, if it's on a day I work I do. Last year they were all on a day I do work but - happy days! - this year they are on a non-working day.

I didn’t expect staff meetings to count they don’t for full time teachers but I only intend to go to half the staff meetings ( or less if they’re not relevant)

Staff meetings are part of the directed hours for full time teachers.

You can't choose the relevant meetings, you'll need to attend half of all directed time activities.
I'd be careful about emailing your demands before you've begun and have actually seen the timetable and understand how the school works.

Mornings are longer than afternoons and this should be reflected in pay.

When I was on a pt contract, this was calculated by 'thirteenths'. So for example a morning might be 7/13 and an afternoon was 6/13.

Phone the HR section for clarification?