NUT workload campaign

[skiteacher]

Anyone in the NUT? have you recieved your ballot form on the workload agreement stuff?
What do you think about the things in their guidelines? A lot of it is great, some as far as I know what the government is also saying but some things just not going to happen! Like the not working other than 'directed' time, find me a teacher that doesn't work during holidays, schools wouldn't start if teachers all stopped working during holidays. One interesting one is about not setting / marking work for PPA cover. I didnt' have to in my old school, but since being on supply and looking for other jobs I know this was actually a rarity (one point for my old, crap school!) especially when TA's take the PPA cover?
Just wanted to know what people thought - I know it doesn't really affect supply teachers, but seeing as so many now have contracts it is starting too!

[firecrest]

Skiteacher,

I have just got mine through too, but I chose to read this first so will let you know later what I think.

[danfur]

Skiteacher, I've just read through mine too. I'm pretty intrigued by that part about not setting/marking work for ppa time. Mine is covered by the HLTA so I can't see how she would manage to plan and mark the work as she doesn't have enough hours to do it. So nice as it would be I don't think it would work. The other thing that interested me was that staff meetings should be limited to 60 mins per week and that any morning briefings should come out of that. Our school has at least a 5 minute briefing every morning so by rights that would mean that our staff meeting couldn't last longer than 35 minutes. Again not sure if that would work! It would be lovely though wouldn't it, if we didn't have to do any of that, ever !!!!!!!!!

Oh and prob should start a new thread for this, but I have had some good news. The school I have worked in for this term is going to keep me on until the summer. Whoop whoop. So I'll get my NQT year done which is such a huge relief. So everyone else, don't lose faith and all those going for interviews at the mo I have my
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for you. I've been lucky and I hope you all will be too. xx

[firecrest]

Still haven't read it, I got sidetracked.

Congratulations on the job Danfur.
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[nutcracker]

Well done Danfur!

[clarabelle]

I also got this through today from the NUT - If the teacher's didn't set work then how would all the curriculum be covered?! Time is precious afterall and if you're relying on supply teachers to bring their own activities, you can't garuntee it would link up to what you'd been teaching them that week in say, Numeracy for example.

[chocaholic]

I also got the document - I suppose the
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behind the PPA planning thing is that schools would have to employ a teacher specifically for PPA cover, thus stopping the trend for 'cover supervisors' and HLTAs...so not a bad thing for supply teachers, but I doubt schools would agree to it.

[NuttySupplier]

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Mine went in the recycle box! Suppose it's better than the bin!
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Will dig it out, it's not gone yet, as I do PPA cover in 2 schools (so do the HLTAs!)

I don't plan, but do mark, and have written the reports for mini subjects, an HLTA I know does the planning too! Madness... I could go on forever on this subject... but it's late, I'm a waffler, and I'm up early to do my choir!!!

[Gnomoospan]

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Nutty, mine nearly did too, my OH and I are not keen on signign ços we think things are better in terms of workload, and I would always plan my ppa time for someone else. If they would adda 0 to our monthly paycheque, it would be worth striking for!

[skiteacher]

I think you've hit it on the head about the planning for PPA when you said it's because NUT want it to be a regular teacher, that does it all the time and therefore plans, assesses and the nthe main teacher doesn't have to worry about it at all. THat's how it worked at my old school, ie. ppa cover did all the art, or the phonics etc, otherwise you spend your ppa planning and makring the work you are giving to the ppa cover!? It doesn't mean the curriculum isn't covered, just that the ppa cover does their own planning from the long /medium term plans and sorts out work etc. If they are a good enough teacher then they should be able to do it! Our PPA cover teachers were also given their own ppa time so they could do the planning for it. They were treated like full proper staff. It's the same for planning, I always got into arguments about having to do moreplanning after the medium term foundatin subject plans - yet on there was differentiation, l.i.'s tasks everythihng. Supply staff managed to work from them, so why did we have to write them out again!
Good one about meetings though! might be a useful bargaining tool if needed!
But as I said i'm not in aschool at the moment, so I don't know the effect it actually will have, as it's sschool by school, it will at least help those who really are having a crap time, with hardly any of this implemented. So i'd be up for voting yes, but then no to my indivdual school.