Common use of Class Contact Time Clause in Contracts

Class Contact Time. The divisions of time are detailed in 2.3 of this document. During non-contact time a teacher may decide to: Work at a time and place of their own choosing Carry out preparation and correction from their personal allowance or Carry out tasks from the agreed collegiate activities Non-class contact should be planned in blocks of no less than 45 minutes in the Primary sector or one period in the Secondary sector. This will ensure both a meaningful educational experience for pupils and a sufficient period for professional tasks to be undertaken. Where there is a shorter working week arising from in service or holiday arrangements, then the normal pattern of non-class contact should apply. In such atypical weeks, some teachers may have more non-class contact than they would otherwise be due and others less (eg. If their non-class contact falls on a holiday). This should be balanced out, where possible, by varying the days for non-class contact over the session or over a number of sessions. Where an individual teacher is not in school for part of the week, the normal pattern of non-class contact should apply. Class committed promoted staff (eg Primary Head Teacher) should receive a pro-rata reduction in class contact time as specified in Appendix 3. Remaining Contractual Time Annual Balance of Time All Sectors 190 Hours The use of the remaining contractual time of 5 hours per week will be agreed to facilitate other appropriate professional activities. The use of this time will be planned in the School Collegiate Activity Time calendar and is subject to agreement at school level. In larger schools, some of the activities and time may be devolved to a unit level (e.g. Faculty/department/stage level). If so, the use of this time should be planned and agreed by the staff working within the unit. Individual teachers will use their professional judgement in relation to the prioritisation of tasks within the agreed plan. For planning purposes only, it may be useful to consider the weekly time aggregated over the school session as 190 hours. These hours exclude the five in-service days which all teachers must attend in accordance with authority requirements and as agreed at school level. An agreed programme of activities should be arranged across the school session in a way which reflects school needs, takes into account the different pressures on schools at various times and which meets the National Agreement. This programme of activities should take account of the activities listed below, particularly the workload generators of reporting, assessment and planning and the time limits specified in Appendix 1 of this Guidance. The activities include: Parents’ meetings Staff meetings School based evaluations and negotiations Preparation of reports. Forward planning Formal assessment and moderation Professional Update Curriculum development Additional supervised pupil activity Additional time for preparation and correction Meetings with External Agencies Where it is proposed that there should be cluster-based activities these should be discussed and agreed as part of each school’s WTA. Where there are to be joint working meetings involving staff from a number of schools travel time should be included. Parents’ meetings, staff meetings etc. Within all sectors, a maximum of 60 hours of the collegiate time may be used for parents’ meetings and all other collegiate meetings as agreed by staff. School based evaluation and negotiations. One hour should be allocated to allow for the school to undertake annual evaluation as part of the process of reaching agreement. One hour should also be allocated for staff to meet to formulate proposals prior to an agreement being made. Where Trade Union (TU) representatives are involved in the negotiations, the one hour would allow for the TU representatives to meet their members. Time should be agreed in the calendar of whole staff meetings to allow the whole staff to consider and agree the school working time agreement. Preparation of Reports. Account should be taken of pupil numbers and typical completion time.