19th December 2022
In addition to the continuous Phase One and Phase Two Action Short of Strike begun on 17 October 2022 and 1 November 2022, from Wednesday 4 January 2023, members are now instructed to undertake the following, additional, continuous Phase Three action:
- Members shall only be directed to attend one formal school meeting of no more than one hour duration per calendar month.
- Members are to teach their teaching hours only, 25 hours per week max in primary and 23.5 hours max in post-primary (or pro-rata if part-time) and should complete Directed Time, outside of the school’s normal pupil learning day, at a time and place of their choosing.
- Members are not to attend meetings/events held outside of the outside of the school’s normal pupil learning day (including open, prize and parents’ evenings).
- All members are reminded not to engage in scribing activities.
- Other than fulfilling a teacher’s contractual obligation members are not to meet with or report to parents on an ad hoc basis in person, online or by telephone, outside pupil sessions except in exceptional circumstances pertaining to legitimate safeguarding and child protection issues.
- Members are reminded that they cannot be directed to undertake extra-curricular activities.
- Members are not to carry out requisition of materials or teaching supplies unless specifically allocated appropriate time within their Directed Time Budget.
- Principal members are not to write Annual Board of Governor Reports.
- Principal members are not to engage with or enact any process associated with redundancy procedures within schools that are as a direct consequence of budgetary constraints, other than category one redundancies.
- Members are instructed not to participate in training for, or the implementation of, any work relating to Phase 2 of SEND Implementation and PLPs, until such time as feedback has been published with regard to the workload associated with this area from Phase 1 schools.
Derogation to Industrial Action:
Members should, at both system and school level, take due cognisance of any educational or care plan for the young persons in their charge who have special educational needs and ensure they are not negatively impacted as a consequence of this industrial action.