Is it rude to email on a Sunday

[fluffyslipper1]

Im a SCITT trainees I'm in tomorrow and I'm planning a lesson for Tuesday that I had a question about. Is it Rude if I email the teacher today? Shall I just ask about the lesson plan when I'm in tomorrow instead

I don't think it's rude to email on a Sunday, late at night or even in the holiday provided there is no expectation the email will be read before the recipient is next in school. My school email has been set up in such a way as to prevent scheduling so if I find myself at my school laptop and composing an email out of hours, I will put 'For Monday' (or whenever the next school day is) as the first part of the subject. That said, I also believe teachers need to take some responsibility to protect their own time e.g. by not having school email on their phones and using auto reply messages so email senders know their message won't be read until X day. Just because it's possible to email with a question, it doesn't mean it should be - on occasions it can come across as lacking independence or a need to be spoonfed (I'm talking more broadly, not just for trainee teachers).

If the email is to let the class teacher know that you've broken your leg and won't be in on Tuesday after all, sending it on a Sunday is fine. If it's to ask if the class teacher thinks it would be a good idea for the TA to target their support at Alfie and Evie, save it for a quick chat on Monday.

@Mistressinthetulips No need for a policy. As adults we are perfectly capable of not opening up a work laptop during the nonworking part of the day / evening / weekend. That's the point. It doesn't intrude, the recipient has to seek it out.
Even during working hours I don't feel somehow compelled to answer e-mails the minute they come in, if I'm working on something else at that point.

I would have absolutely no issue with someone e-mailing me at 3 in the morning, as I wouldn't know. I would only even become aware of the e-mail when I chose to start work next. That's the point.

You are choosing to completely ignore my comments on wanting/needing to see important emails, and not wanting to have unnecessary, less important work related stuff intruding on the weekend. Work related stress is hardly unheard of in education so if schools wish to adopt policies that try small ways to improve this (based, I should say, on requests by staff) then I would not be dismissive of that. Personally.

Anything urgent e.g. closure of the school and requirement to teach from home is communicated to us by a centrally sent text message. It is usually followed up by an email but any absolutely necessary announcement comes by phone. I think it works well as a way of ensuring staff don't feel obliged to go through emails but are kept in the loop about a significant departure from normal operations.

No, I'm not ignoring comments.
No-one can direct you to work at any point over the weekend or on any evening.
When you choose to do that work, then you skim the subjects and who it is from and choose to open them or not.
Maybe I am more self disciplined about not letting work take over my life ?
The only 'emergency' situations that for some reason everyone would NEED to know about before setting off for work on Monday morning, would come out via your emergency news route (school closed due to a flood being one fine example from a few years back).
As a professional adult, I have the autonomy to decide what I a) read and b) act upon / respond to in what order, or with what urgency.

Tonight, for example, I was on a bit of a roll, and worked until 10pm, as I was just really flying through something that I'd been struggling with the wording of last week - it all just came together, so I chose to keep going. I very rarely work until 10pm, but it suited me tonight to do that. I chose to turn off my e-mail notifications whilst I was working on it though, as that would have interrupted my chain of thought.
Another time I might deal with e-mails as they come in. Another day I might skim through to see what they are about and only actually open 1 in 5 of them, then.

I still have my emails push through at the weekend in case of something actually urgent (eg over the learning from home period things would change rapidly, and with the testing requirements and stuff. This was urgent and needed to be sent on Sunday because it impacted Monday).

Oh and if someone emailed me on a Sunday I would assume it was urgent, so I'd open it. I wouldn't consider the ops scenario urgent therefore I would be a bit miffed that she'd sent it. I have received urgent emails on Sundays before, particularly in recent times, so a quick check of my email on Sunday evening is something that I do.

I get Union emails that I absolutely would choose to see over the weekend as I want to offer help.
Any teacher able to see that a parent has emailed them and not need to open it to check what it's about is made of sterner stuff than I am
I don't think it's enough to say "I can manage my workload", what about a bit of solidarity and a recognition that some colleagues are struggling, also that new staff and staff on temporary contracts will have particular issues with not being seeing to jump on the email straight away.