Primary teaching 0.8

[toadstool32]

So I'm dropping a day in September but my head wants my day off to be when the kids are in PE, music or what have you that I wouldn't teach anyway and is my ppa time. Surely I'm entitled to 80% of PPA still?

Yes you are though I am in school 0.6 and get my ppa paid to me on top of that. However, that is an arrangement that has been made over time & I’ve agreed to it. You are entitled to PPA.

Of course you are. 10% of your direct teaching over the 4 days you are in school. You could ask to be paid an additional 10% and take your PPA at home, but either way you are entitled to it regardless of what is taught on the day you aren't in.

I'm in an independent school where we get 3.5 hours a week, I'm not sure what that is as a %. But by maths 80% of that means only 40mins less ppa time?

I am 0.8 and entitled to exactly one afternoon (2 hours and 5 minutes of teaching time) each week.

Having taught in a private school for many years, in my experience they will always try it on. As PPs have said, you are entitled to 80% of standard PPA time, or to be paid for it on the day when you are not in school. Put everything in writing via email so you have a record.

I'm 0.8 and get an afternoon, same as a full timer. Because I have full class responsibility though (all parents eves, displays, IEPs etc) as well as being asked to plan the odd thing for my day off (covered by a TA not a teacher) I don't feel remotely bad about this. On a previous contract, I did spend some time doing the maths around the fact a full timer gets PPA equivalent to 10% of their week including PPA itself rather than 10% of their actual teaching time, whereas when you're part time it seems to be calculated as 10% of what you actually teach, but in reality this amounted to only minutes difference.

I'm 0.8 and get 2 hours per week so I stop at 12.15 and then have the rest of that afternoon off. I chose Thursday afternoon as my day off is Friday. My HT let me choose which day.

I'm in a private school so our ppa isn't in one clump, it's bitty throughout the week between 30-60mins every day