Common use of Class Contact Time Clause in Contracts

Class Contact Time. 3.1 The maximum class contact time is 22.5 hours per week. 3.2 Part-time teachers will have pro-rata maximum class contact. 3.3 It is anticipated that teachers may be required to provide cover for absent colleagues in line with the national agreement on cover. Such cover counts in full as class contact time. On this basis it is only those teachers who have, or at the end of the week, would have, a class commitment lower than the maximum that could be expected to provide cover. The total of allocated classes and cover in any one working week must not exceed the maximum class contact limit specified. 3.4 There may be exceptional emergency circumstances when a teacher unexpectedly has to leave a class at short notice. In such circumstances, it would not be unreasonable to expect a teacher to cover the class even if in doing so, his/her maximum class contact limit for that week may be exceeded Such instances, by their very nature, would be extremely rare. Where such a circumstance arises, the Headteacher should ensure that the time is made up to the teacher at the earliest opportunity. 3.5 Faculty heads, principal teachers, depute headteachers and headteachers have management time which reduces their class contact commitments. 3.6 For the purposes of this agreement additional individual pupil contact times will be regarded as Additional Supervised Pupil Activity.

Class Contact Time. 3.1 The maximum class contact time is 22.5 hours per week. 3.2 Part-time teachers will have pro-rata maximum class contact. 3.3 It is anticipated that teachers may be required to provide cover for absent colleagues in line with the national agreement on cover. Such cover counts in full as class contact time. On this basis it is only those teachers who have, or at the end of the week, would have, a class commitment lower than the maximum that could be expected to provide cover. The total of allocated classes and cover in any one working week must not exceed the maximum class contact limit specified. 3.4 There may be exceptional emergency circumstances when a teacher unexpectedly has to leave a class at short notice. In such circumstances, it would not be unreasonable to expect a teacher to cover the class even if in doing so, his/her maximum class contact limit for that week may be exceeded Such instances, by their very nature, would be extremely rare. Where such a circumstance arises, the Headteacher Head Teacher should ensure that the time is made up to the teacher at the earliest opportunity. 3.5 Faculty heads, principal teachers, depute headteachers head teachers and headteachers head teachers have management time which reduces their class contact commitments. 3.6 For the purposes of this agreement additional individual pupil contact times will be regarded as Additional Supervised Pupil Activity.