Oxfordshire NEU Summer Newsletter 2025 - Flipbook - Page 17
Directed Time
Our Bargaining Calendar.
Our
bargaining
members to
members.
calendar
is
a
framework
for
NEU
reps
and
help develop workplace presence and win for
Echoing
the
rhythm
of
the
school
year,
the
framework will help coordinate activity as part of a national
campaign to improve working conditions.
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Excessive working time is members top concern, felt ever more
acutely as the cost of living crisis erodes their pay. You can
engage with your managers now to remove unnecessary workload and secure your directed time
calendar
4 workload problems can be challenged at any time of year.
Directed time is when teachers are directed by their head teacher to be available for work.
This is a
maximum of 1,265 hours per academic year, spread over 195 days for those settings following the
STPCD.
Teachers can be required to teach for 190 days, the maximum length of the pupil year.
Teachers can be required to work a further five non-teaching (usually inset) days. These hours count
towards the 1,265 hour limit.
Part-time teachers work the prorated equivalent according to the
fraction of full-time pay they receive - use our directed time calculator.
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All schools should have a calendar of the activities which make up teachers directed time
on with staff via trade unions.
NEU reps/members should ask their head or leadership team
for the directed time calendars for both the school and for
individuals. Teachers can raise concerns about their directed
time
calendar
at
any
point
during
the
academic
year.
It
is
important to ensure that the position of part-time teachers,
who are predominantly women and contain large numbers of
teachers with protected characteristics, are fairly
managed.
Examples of directed time calendars can be located inside the
Directed time and how to takle workload in your school NEU
publcation.
If your workplace does not have a Directed Time
calendar for next year, then please ask your Headteacher to
produce one asap.
you require support.
Contact oxfordshiredistrict@neu.org.uk if
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