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continuing from post: -

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Jobs_and_Educat ion/Question296428.html

having emailed the scholl they state - "It's a full time 36 hours per week but can either be term time plus 2 weeks or full time including school holiday working. To suit candidate.."

anyone help on what his actually means???

Ta

[dzug]

You can choose whether to work the whole year including school holidays, or just to work in term time. If you choose the latter you will have to work for 2 weeks in the school holidays as well - I would guess for a few days before and after each term to get things ready/tidy up.

[Mrs_Pegasus]

Ok term time plus 2 weeks means you will work 39 weeks of the year when the school has pupils in it and then 2 weeks (10 days) during the holidays. To confuse you a little more if you work PD Days/Baker Days/Teacher training days - these will be deducted off the 10 days you have to work during the holidays. So the norm is 5 PD days per year therefore you would probably find yourself working only 5 days over the 13 weeks of the childrens holidays.

Now I am full time in a secondary school so I have a 52 week contract and due to my time in local govt I have accumulated 29 days holiday equivalent of approx. 6 weeks. If you have no previous local government employment you will probably be started on 20-22 days holidays per year.

How they have advertised it is good. It gives the opportunity to get the right person for the job by offering flexibility - those with young children would need child care during the holidays when they were working.

Hope this helps - even if it is a bit long winded!