Break/lunch Supervision

ethical

Does the Principal and Deputy Principals do ANY lunch/break supervision in your school?

gaeilgebeo

Yes. (In theory!)

TheDriver

Yes, we both do and class substitution when needed.

doc_17

If it's your day for lunchtime duty but you are away with a team or on inservice, is it required to get someone to cover your supervision? I would have thought in the past it was since we were paid. But since HRA if would have though feck it. Wonder is there an official position? Or a union one?

evolving_doors

doc_17 wrote: »

If it's your day for lunchtime duty but you are away with a team or on inservice, is it required to get someone to cover your supervision? I would have thought in the past it was since we were paid. But since HRA if would have though feck it. Wonder is there an official position? Or a union one?

Well at the end of the day its part of your duties , same as the guy who refused to do CP meetings with impunity.

No difference between not doing supervision/yard duty and not showing up to a PTM.

Refers back to management for not doing your job!

doc_17

Thanks for the reply. But is that your interpretation or is that the way it is defined by either the union or the department? Nobody in our school really knows.

evolving_doors

doc_17 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply. But is that your interpretation or is that the way it is defined by either the union or the department? Nobody in our school really knows.

I presume if it's new duties to be carried out. And the details are contained in a circular from dept... then its part of your job.

If you are refusing to do S&S then I can't see why its up to a union to sanction you. Unless you are refusing to do it because of health and safety concerns.. in which case you are (should be ) engaged in a /disciplinereview process of some sort.

To my knowledge our principal and deputy do the supervision.. although I dont know what happens when a parent calls for meeting or other stuff crops up!

was'nt the buy-out clause for S&S open to principals and VP's aswell?

Pwpane

ethical wrote: »

Does the Principal and Deputy Principals do ANY lunch/break supervision in your school?

No. Nor substitution.

Pwpane

doc_17 wrote: »

If it's your day for lunchtime duty but you are away with a team or on inservice, is it required to get someone to cover your supervision? I would have thought in the past it was since we were paid. But since HRA if would have though feck it. Wonder is there an official position? Or a union one?

If you are away on the day you have lunchtime duty, list it with the classes to be covered that you hand in to the office. You can't cover it if you're not there, but the office need to be informed that you'll be absent. As you're on school business you don't need to make up the time by swapping with someone else.

RealJohn

Both have slots on the rota, which they usually fulfil, and they also end up doing it for at least a while most days from what I've seen.

They also tend to end up covering a lot of classes.

ethical

Lucky You!

Delphi91

Yes, break time and lunch time everyday and substitution when required.