Any part time secondary teachers??

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Currently on maternity leave and have requested part time hours when I return. I haven't heard anything official but have supposedly been given 26 hours per week. Does anyone know how many days this is? I have meeting with head this week but want to be prepared.

My guess is that would be three days- seems strange to do it by the hour- most part time teaching jobs are usually a fraction of the full time job e.g. 0.6= three days, 0.5= two and a half days.

I know. I just have horrible feeling it is 4 days which I really wouldn't want, hardly seems worth it!

I do 4 extremely full days, am 0.8 and am teaching 18 hours a week (5 period day, 2 ppa)

i would not have had 26 teaching hours even when FT!

how is your head working this out?

Do you mean per fortnight?

Our teaching week is 25 hours.

And it might well not be in full days. You need to see your timetable.

i think there is some kind of statutory thingy against giving you really broken days - e.g. 13 hours/week over 5 days, but this may depend on whether your school is an academy

agree with tfm you need to see a timetable first. in principle, this could be a 3 day week. I used to do this + it was lovely, great balance of work + time with the kids

I am a part time secondary English teacher in an independent school. My timetable is such that I have to go in Mon to Fri but get Saturday morning off. Have they told you that all your lessons can be blocked into three or four days and that you will have a complete day off? It depends which subject you teach as to how easy this is, I suppose, but it's not as straightforward at secondary as it is at primary. Some part time teachers I know have to be in every day; they just teach fewer lessons.

Agree with those who say that 26 hours sounds odd, unless you're on a paid per lesson contract and then that's a huge number of hours for a part-timer! I would have thought you'd be on a point.

Ah maybe it is over course of two week timetable. As for seeing a timetable they are still not done! Hopefully things will become clearer after my meeting. Thanks for all your replies.

My DSis is a teacher and her full-time hours are max. 21 hours in front of a class. I think there are 25 hours of lessons in her school per week.

Agree with others that sounds an odd way to describe it - generally you work a fraction of a week... 0.6 or 0.5 etc. Presumably, if they are calculating hours timetabled to teach lessons only, that works out (over a fortnight) as being about 1/2 ?
My friend does PT secondary and has done for some years, and she doesn't get full days off I'm afraid. It's a bit different from secondary.