Part timers - do you attend all staff meetings?

[Frieda86]

If you are part time do you attend all staff meetings?
I'm 0.6, staff meetings are always on my workday.

If the meeting takes place on your workday then yes there would be an expectation. If it’s not then, it’s an agreement you make with your line manager.

Either get time off in lieu as a result or additional pay. You should ask for a breakdown of your personal directed time.

You attend the relevant proportion of directed time. So if you were to attend all meetings, you'd not be able to attend other things.

Thanks everyone. The weekly meetings are always on one of my days.

It doesn't matter if they're on your day. You still only need to attend the relevant proportion of directed time.

This needs agreeing early on in the term to avoid "confusion" - by which I mean people trying to make you work more than your directed time.

I am part time but work on our standard meeting day- as above you have to do the correct proportion of directed time e.g if you're 0.8 you do 80% of what everyone else does.

For example, to bring mine into line I don't do one of the parents' eves and one of the annual evening events, and I don't have to go to one of the morning briefings. I just check with our line manager each year that there's nothing to change on that pattern, there never is, so we do the same again. I think to be fair I gain slightly but luckily nobody is counting that closely and I also do choose to go to the morning meeting sometimes. Maybe wouldn't work for you if you teach all year groups, but when I have they've been shared groups so the FT person has seen them.

Similar situation. I do, but largely because otherwise I get left out of the loop on things or have to do things in my own time when staff meeting time was allocated for it.

We have disagg and meetings on Tuesday. I do 80%. I save it all up and take if I need it for an appointment etc but any owed I take in the summer term.

I do all parents eve and get paid for ones on day off. I do all training days 5 and get paid for one.

You should sit down with your line manager and complete a DTB spreadsheet.
It doesn’t matter if all meetings fall on your workday you should only do a total of 60% of whatever a full timer does.
it should also be flexible. For example if you do a parents evening that is not on your working day but you choose to attend then that time if not additionally paid should be taken from meeting time.
If you are asked to attend a training day not on your day then if not paid take 6 hours from after school meetings.
My SLT are amazing at part time DTB but some SLT just don’t get it.
Part timers must not do a minute over their % as then you’re working for free!