Any teachers out there ? - what actually happens on "Inset days " ?

iloveshoes21

Acc72 wrote: »

A few replies (presumably from teachers) have answered the first part of the question, but nobody has answered the second part of the question.

It appears that teachers need a day or 2 to get prepared for the new school year which I understand.

However, why should this be done on the first 2 days of the new term ? - there is only one answer, and that is because teachers do not want this to eat into their holidays.

If that is the answer, then fine - but why not just say so ?

Ok then, your right I don't want to be forced to go into work during my holidays to do training or tidy. Just as I would not expect someone who works in a supermarket, call centre etc to go into work on their holiday/day off unpaid to do training or tidy up. If people do go into work on their holidays to complete stuff unpaid then that is their choice. I'm not asking you too.

annie1975_2

The way people look at it is,why do they have to have training days in addition to school holidays,when they already get 13/14 weeks a year off,why cant it be done in the 13/14 weeks?
I'm sure someone will be along in a minute and say "but we don't get 13/14 weeks because we are doing work whilst we are off,and only get 4/5 weeks like everyone else in the country".

Idiophreak

Acc72 wrote: »

However, why should this be done on the first 2 days of the new term ? - there is only one answer, and that is because teachers do not want this to eat into their holidays.

You really don't get it, do you?

It's not on the first two days of the new term...it's on the last two days of the holiday.

The children are not losing days of contact time - the teachers are losing days of holiday.

What it matters to you *which* days of their holiday they have to go in to train is quite beyond me....

Sambucus_Nigra

annie1975 wrote: »

The way people look at it is,why do they have to have training days in addition to school holidays,when they already get 13/14 weeks a year off,why cant it be done in the 13/14 weeks?
I'm sure someone will be along in a minute and say "but we don't get 13/14 weeks because we are doing work whilst we are off,and only get 4/5 weeks like everyone else in the country".

Bless you - even with all the explanation you still can't work it out.

annie1975_2

Alright sarci !!!!.Dont get on your high horse

2010

Are these "inset days" on top of "teacher training days" or is this just a new phrase for the same thing?

Does anyone know the actual number of days in a year when pupils are at school out of 365?

annie1975_2

2010 wrote: »

Are these "inset days" on top of "teacher training days" or is this just a new phrase for the same thing?

Does anyone know the actual number of days in a year when pupils are at school out of 365?

Thank you... Just you worded it different from me..
And to answer your question about about 191..

ILW

Teachers work 195 days a year.
That averages around 16 days per month, or half the days.
Do they consider it a full time job?

Sambucus_Nigra

kingfisherblue wrote: »

Children are in school for 190 days a year, and teachers for 195 days a year. The additional five days are for training.

Post number 9 - for those who are having issues.

tyllwyd

The other thing is that the local authority sets the dates of the school terms but the schools can decide when to have their inset days. So if you have children at different schools, they might easily go back to school on different days - my two (primary/secondary school) often do. And I guess this might become more frequent as more schools change to academies, because my understanding is that academies have more freedom to set their term dates. It's not a problem to me because I don't work in an office, but I can see it might be frustrating if you need to organise childcare.