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Part timers - do you attend all staff meetings?

7 replies

Frieda86 · 20/08/2026 08:40

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

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MN2025 · 20/08/2026 12:34

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.

Smeegall · 20/08/2026 12:51

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

MrsHamlet · 20/08/2026 14:57

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.

Frieda86 · Yesterday 12:04

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

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MrsHamlet · Yesterday 12:19

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.

PensionPuzzle · Yesterday 18:01

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.

Lancrelady80 · Today 01:29

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.

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