How many non contacts do you have?

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I don’t mind admitting I’m on my knees a bit. I have three non contact periods a week, and I’m finding it a bit relentless. Am I being woe is me and this is normal or are my school being a bit stingy? 25 periods per week.

2.5 per 25 hour week at ours- so x5hours over 2 weeks. You are lucky!

Timetable is awful too so it’s not evenly spread across the 2 weeks

PPA should be 10% of teaching time. So, take out assembly, non contact, etc and count up how many hours you are face to face teaching. Then work out 10% of that.

I know but there has usually been a difference in what you should have and what you get (or perhaps I’ve been lucky) - have always had around five non contacts a week.

I get 3 (+2 for tlr).

5 is a lot. In primary, it usually works out at around 3 hours.

Most mainscale teachers at my place do 21 or 22 periods per week.

Mainscale teachers at my school have 3/25 non contacts.

As a 2nd in faculty, I get 7/25 and when I take over as head of faculty, it will be 11/25.

We have a 30 period week. Mainscale teachers get 4 but we're financially in a hole so it's likely to go back to 3 next year.

I’ve never worked at a school that has given more than the minimum 10% - so 5 hours ppa over 2 weeks. I work part time but always do most of my on my days off. I have no idea how full time teachers manage.

7 out of 60 over the 2 weeks though not evenly spread.
Irritating vast discrepancy in the number of frees different ( non tlr) teachers get in my department

Our main scale teachers have 5/30 non contacts.
Most HODs get 7/30
HODs in core departments get 8/30.
Extended SLT get 10/30
I’m an AHT and get 12/30 (although only 15 of my 18 periods are teaching and 3 are on-calls). The allocation for other AHTs is the same at 15 plus a few on-calls.
DHT teach a few periods per week but I are mostly non-teaching.

I work at an independent and we get 33% off timetable, with one period being a fixed cover lesson you are only sometimes called on to do - so it is usually 37% off timetable. I hadn’t realised quite how lucky I was. Still, we are all form tutors too (counted for in % off) but that is a big extra responsibility with a lot of admin involved).

Primary here. I get 2 hours.

Wow I’m feeling really unlucky compared to some of you. How do schools afford to give so many non contacts? Another couple of ppa hours would make so much difference to the manageability of my workload. Today I’ve got my second 5 period day in a row and duty (and form on both days) by period 5 today I’ll barely be able to string a sentence together!

Primary too. I get 2 hours and 15 minutes which is, technically, under the 10% threshold but only by half an hour or so. Most primary teachers will get under 10% because they are given an afternoon out of class and the afternoon sessions are shorter than the mornings.

Also a senior leader but I don't get any specific time for that.

Private eyfs - 5 hours a week

Five over two weeks!

My school we used to get 5/30 non contact (2 non PPA so could be used for cover). This year it's changed to 3/30. HODS get 5 now, used to get 7.

We have 35 timetabled periods per week. I have 8 of those periods for prep.