Have you been provided with 2018/2019 timetable yet?

deiseindublin

From reading VFT and here, it seems that many teachers actually have their timetable in hand already, while a few others are talking about looking forward to seeing their timetable.

I'd prefer there was no identifying comments or locations on the post, just wondering what the percent breakdown is for having it already Vs not having it yet.

Latest day schools could be back is next Tuesday. I'm not sure but is it a week before school that they are supposed to be available from?

TheDriver

Are you referring to what or when you're teaching?

Corkgirl18

Ours were issued towards the end of July.
I have heard of people having them before they finish up school in June!

Icsics

Got it today on vs ware

doc_17

My school, an ETB school, doesn’t have the timetable yet. Can’t be done as ETB haven’t filled a few vacancies.

deiseindublin

TheDriver wrote: »

Are you referring to what or when you're teaching?

Yes, sorry wasn't clear, individual teacher timetabled classes.

Is it one week before they're supposed to be out? I thought there was an actual timeline that came in a few years ago, but I could be dreaming it.

Really seems to vary school to school.

r93kaey5p2izun

deiseindublin wrote: »

Yes, sorry wasn't clear, individual teacher timetabled classes.

Is it one week before they're supposed to be out? I thought there was an actual timeline that came in a few years ago, but I could be dreaming it.

Really seems to vary school to school.

The circular was to do with sorting out S&S. It said teachers were to be emailed their timetable by "a date in August" which would be notified to them before summer holidays. They would then fill in their order of preference for S&S on their free periods and return to the principal within 3 days.

It sounds like the intention was that everything would be sorted before school starts but the "date in August" vagueness means they can leave it til last minute I suppose since schools are back in August. But it does say "it has been agreed that the roster will be in place before each school year begins".

doc_17

Angelina Fresh Loaf wrote: »

The circular was to do with sorting out S&S. It said teachers were to be emailed their timetable by "a date in August" which would be notified to them before summer holidays. They would then fill in their order of preference for S&S on their free periods and return to the principal within 3 days.

It sounds like the intention was that everything would be sorted before school starts but the "date in August" vagueness means they can leave it til last minute I suppose since schools are back in August. But it does say "it has been agreed that the roster will be in place before each school year begins".

But like, what’s the penalty if it isn’t emailed in August? Can we get away with less S&S? No. Waste of ink that line.

dory

Get ours early July every year.

doc_17

dory wrote: »

Get ours early July every year.

Voluntary secondary?

mirrorwall14

ETB sector. It was visible on VSware in July (unintentionally) but it seems to have been pulled entirely as now my classes from last year are showing again

dory

doc_17 wrote: »

Voluntary secondary?

Good guess!

doc_17

I have a few friends in voluntary secondary and they all have theirs. A friend of mine is a deputy at a fairly large one and they do recruitment in first half of June and then he does the timetable by the end of the state exams. I tell him about our craic and he laughs his head off at the state of us.

Mind you he then goes on an odd rant about the ETBs and all the perceived added extras. I ask him would he swap and he says not in a million year!

deiseindublin

Interesting that after 1 day it's 2:1 that have the timetables. Didn't think it would be that high.

(typo)

Notorious

I'm in an ETB. We're back on Monday and we'll get a provisional timetable then.

Noveight

ETB here. Got a provisional timetable yesterday and a final one today with room numbers.

joebloggs32

Under the current S&S structure staff should have timetables at least two weeks in advance if the school opening. They then can nominate their preferences for which periods they would like to be placed on the S&S rota.

solerina

We got our TT on VS Ware on Wednesday afternoon, we had to nominate our S&S periods by 12.00 on Thursday....is there an amount of time that we should be given to complete S&S preferences, less than a day seems very little.

r93kaey5p2izun

solerina wrote: »

We got our TT on VS Ware on Wednesday afternoon, we had to nominate our S&S periods by 12.00 on Thursday....is there an amount of time that we should be given to complete S&S preferences, less than a day seems very little.

It's supposed to be 3 days according to circular 42/2014. Of course all aspects of the circular other than teachers' obligations seem to be widely ignored.

mirrorwall14

We don’t have a timetable to nominate s and s off....

Icsics

Angelina Fresh Loaf wrote: »

It's supposed to be 3 days according to circular 42/2014. Of course all aspects of the circular other than teachers' obligations seem to be widely ignored.

So true, these circulars are thrown out at the time to appease teachers but then conveniently 'forgotten' by management. No forgetting the Godforsaken CP hrs:rolleyes:

deiseindublin

Yes, A La Carte circulars are a problem alright.

gaiscioch

Received timetable for first time in post on Monday. Began school on Friday. Not ideal at all. In fairness to the principal, somebody was on career break and that person's return or not would determine the makeup of my hours. It would be fairer if the DoES gave an earlier deadline for people returning/going on career break. There will always be last minute exceptions/ changes - e.g. a sick child needing a parent full time - and most of us can accept that but 31 May or something similar should be the latest date out of respect for the other staff and their need to prepare material etc for new classes.

deiseindublin

I've forgotten EVERYTHING over the summer.

How many classes do we nominate as potential S&S classes?
We then cover an average of 2 a week I think?
Max of 43 hours?

Does anybody here actually keep track of theirs. I'm tempted to this year, just to see exactly what hours I end up doing.

chocoholic999

deiseindublin wrote: »

I've forgotten EVERYTHING over the summer.

How many classes do we nominate as potential S&S classes?
We then cover an average of 2 a week I think?
Max of 43 hours?

Does anybody here actually keep track of theirs. I'm tempted to this year, just to see exactly what hours I end up doing.

You nominate all free periods for s&s, for us that’s 10. You rank them 1-10 and then management pick 5 of these.

Icsics

chocoholic999 wrote: »

You nominate all free periods for s&s, for us that’s 10. You rank them 1-10 and then management pick 5 of these.

This time of year I'm delighted to be an 'opt out'!