Students completing mock exams in detention

[Claay]

My school have already put year 11s into their first mock exams this term.

Apparently there's no capacity to run another session while the exam room is set up to catch up any and all that have been missed over the last couple of weeks, due to absence.

Individual teachers (who were teaching other year groups while hundreds of exam papers were generated for them to organise by class and mark in a ridiculously tight turnaround....) are now being told they are responsible for supervising catch up after school, by setting individual 1 hr detentions. Some subjects have multiple papers. And some kids have genuinely been ill for a few days and missed loads and will need booking each night.

Yes we want the papers, but really annoyed that at no point have SLT even set this after school, and nor have HoD seen this expectation and offered to run an hour at a time for all kids in a subject at once.

I guess I can just sit and mark each day after school with 1 kid there, but I'm so annoyed that they feel they can direct this.

Are you covered by STPCD?
Is this time allocated in the calendar?

If the answers are yes and no, you can just say no.

That's a ridiculous way to catch kids up. I would speak to your union about this.

Do not sit for 1 hr dtn in a classroom with 1 student. The last school I was in, if the student missed a mock then they missed a mock. No opportunity to take the exam.. One of the reasons was that the other students had seen the paper.

I thought this was going to be kids sitting them in a centralised detention and the issues that would bring!
That is ridiculous and as PP says if it's doesn't fit in your directed time then they can't make you do it.

WORST case I'd do a single hour after school and invite everyone that needs to do a paper from my subject, and I suspect other members of my team would be ok with doing one hour. Would have to be voluntary but would probably mop up most kids that way.

What are they doing about papers that are more than an hour long (most of them?)

Here we just have mop up sessions in one of the smaller rooms with the exam officer and another invigilator and they just work through the list.