Setting the school timetable
Prepare the timetable and run the school by it. Build it to protect teaching time, and plan supervision for when it is interrupted.
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- Step 1: Prepare the school timetable and organise the school to follow it.
- Step 2: Share it with pupils, teachers, education officers and anyone acting for the Minister.
- Step 3: Give core subjects such as literacy and mathematics uninterrupted blocks of time on set days.
- Step 4: Keep school announcements to set times of the day.
- Step 5: Where you can, group classes in the same area of the school, to cut time lost moving between rooms.
- Step 6: Plan how students will be supervised if the timetable is interrupted for any reason.
If you are a school leader
Preparing and sharing the timetable are duties under regulation 18. In a secondary school, your deputy principal helps you plan supervision when the normal timetable is interrupted (regulation 19).
To work out how much teaching time you really have, see There isn’t enough time to teach the curriculum.
If you are an education officer
You set annual school calendars that make the most of teaching time. Work with school leaders to create and enforce schedules that protect teaching time from disruption.
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