How much is too much?

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I'm senior leader in a small rural primary school. UPS3 + a small additional payment for leadership duties. I'm utterly snowed under and knackered. Please tell me whether you think this is too much for one human to manage, or not. We're due Ofsted at any time and I feel like running for the hills.

• class teacher for 31 year 5/6s 3.5 days a week. HLTA teaches the rest of the time so I have full responsibility for outcomes including SATS, short, medium and long term planning for all subjects except PE.
• DSL
• Curriculum lead implementing curriculum redesign and creating intent statements for all foundation subjects
• Science, creative arts and computing subject lead
• online safety lead including monitoring of internet use
• responsibility for enrichment activities
• head of school in head teacher's absence
• responsible for school comms - newsletter, update of website etc.
• school council

I know that on my pay scale I would be highly unlikely to get a straight teaching job elsewhere without taking a significant pay cut, but even assistant head's jobs (at point 5-10 on leadership scale) seem to have less responsibilities.
I've been at the same school for some years and have lost perspective of what is normal. If you've got this far thank you - felt the need to download to (hopefully) sympathetic ears!

That’s around our assistant headteachers responsibilities, although they have less teaching. City secondary

Thanks. It's managing the class responsibility and the leadership stuff on top that's taking its toll. I feel neither one thing nor the other. I'm actually enjoying the leadership side more than I expected (been doing this for 3 years) so might be time to find a role with less teaching.

Small schools are notorious for high workload. I’m assistant head of a large school and have no teaching commitment. It is very manageable. I’d suggest you look for a leadership position in a larger school.

I'm an assistant head in a two form entry primary and i teach the equivalent of 2 days max. There are 3 of us and we all have a teaching commitment but none of us have our own class, we all cover or take groups. That makes it much more manageable as it's the day to day pressure of having a class that makes it hard. Last year I ended up teaching almost a full week and it was impossible to do all the leadership stuff as well.

Can I just ask, does an assistant head's position usually involve any involvement with the finance director of school management? That's not really my thing...

Don't know where director came from - should say finance...(auto correct...)

I’m a deputy in a small primary of 120 pupils. I’m on point 7 and that’s the top point for my scale. I do all of the jobs you’ve listed and the some more. I teach a full class of 30 Y2 and have 2 hours PPA and 2 hours out of class for other things. HLTA has them. It’s a terrible workload. I really feel for you.