Contract changes

[mrsnjw]

I have a permanent contract in a primary school that states my year group and 0.6 time. How far can the school go to change this? For example change three days to five mornings or five mornings to three days? Can they change my year group if it's stated year two on my contract? Just some advice please?

These two sheets should mostly answer your questions:
https://neu.org.uk/advice/your-rights-work/pay/teachers-pay-and-allowances/part-time-teachers-pay-and-conditions
https://neu.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-05/NEU2292%20Leadership_Your%20contract%20of%20employment.pdf

The short answer is yes. Moving year groups is a more usual occurrence than changing your working days but both are theoretically possible.

What if they want me to work more hours?

They can’t as you are contracted to 0.6.

No, not without your consent.

These are really questions for your union, however. Do you suspect that your employer is going to change your contract?

I've been working 10+ years mornings only on a 0.6. I've been asked to go full time. Not sure they want me to be 3 full days.

Do you want to do three days? Are you in a union?

Yes I am in a union. I'm happy to do three days but I think they'd rather I did full time.

I would get union advice before having any further conversations on the matter.

I run all the intervention groups and have got so many resources etc. I'm settled into my pattern.

Can they afford to still have a teacher running intervention groups? Most schools I know don't even have TAs to run interventions any more, let alone a teacher - 10 years ago the picture was very different. Do they want you to go back into class, either as a job share or with full responsibility for the class if you go full time? I'm wondering whether it's that or redundancy due to the budget...

Yes back into ks1 as a teacher or job share.

We need more teachers not fewer.

Sorry OP, but if you are on a teacher’s contract you can be put back into class at the ‘reasonable direction’ of the headteacher. It’s likely that it’s unaffordable to have a supernumerary teacher on the staff and they can’t justify having you out of class.

I don't mind going back into class it's more the reorganisation of my hours.

Do you know of anyone who could be your job share partner? Anyone who would like to work 5 afternoons? So you could go to your Head and offer a way of still being able to do 5 mornings?

It would have to be someone with quite specific personal circumstances I think who would want to work afternoons - many people who are part time want to be able to be with their own children after school, so you might struggle to find someone who wants to do it. What you don't want is to continue working 5 mornings, as a class teacher, and then have your class covered by a TA in the afternoon so you end up having to do all the planning for them, all the parents' evenings and write all the reports. In that case, surely you'd be better doing 3 full days and having a teacher in the classroom on the other 2 days? If there's someone who wants to do that of course.

@toomuchicecream very good points. Thank you