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Directed time: applying it in practice
How should we apply directed time? This article explains how to apply the principles of directed time and what activities, tasks and meetings are counted towards directed time. It looks at what to do if directed time is exceeded, as well as how directed time works in a PRU.
- Directed time: entitlement to breaks
- Directed time: what's covered and how to organise it
- Introducing additional INSET days
- Lunch and breaktime supervision duties for staff
- Part-time staff: attending INSET days and meetings
- Part-time teachers' working time
- Rest breaks for support staff
- SENCOs: teaching commitments
- Staff meetings: schedules and agendas
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