- As part of our school’s music curriculum we have large group sessions every Wednesday afternoon. If the lead teacher for this session is ever absent — absence not known in advance — does good practice dictate that the larger group(s) should be broken down into original class units?
- Can a teaching assistant, who has a job description that includes cover supervision duties, be redirected from their timetabled duties to provide cover supervision for a whole class?
- If we double and split classes is this always regarded as cover for the teachers who take those classes?
- If a pupil is regularly removed from her or her timetabled class — eg. a parent does not wish the child to attend RE sessions — and that pupil enters a different class for these lessons, is the teacher whose lesson the pupil moves to considered to be covering?
- Can a primary school deploy a cover strategy that takes a key stage 1 class above the legal limit of 30 pupils in a class?
- Our school previously employed a floating teacher to provide much of the school’s cover requirements. This teacher has had 40 per cent of assigned teaching time set aside to provide cover for absent colleagues. Under the revised School teachers’ pay and conditions document, is this still an acceptable and valid strategy for providing cover?
- What impact does the phase two contractual change on cover have on the capacity of schools to organise educational visits?
