The 10% PPA time ring-fenced in the time budget will be used to allow teachers to plan and prepare daily lessons and assess daily classwork.
- TNC 2009/8 Introduction of Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) time Policy Statement https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/de/tnc-2009-8-ppa-policy-statement-2.pdf – ‘The purpose of PPA time is to enable teachers to raise standards through individual or collaborative professional activity and improve teachers’ work/life balance.’
- TNC 2011/8 Time Budgeting Appendix 3 5.1 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/de/tn2011-appendiiitime-budgeting.pdfThe intended purpose of planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time is to enable teachers to raise standards through individual or collaborative professional activity and improve teachers’ work/life balance. PPA time has the potential to impact positively on the twin aims of raising standards and tackling teacher workload.
- TNC 2011/8 Time Budgeting Appendix 3 5.2 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/de/tn2011-appendiiitime-budgeting.pdf – ‘The practice of teachers carrying out their planning, preparation and assessment outside of their normal teaching hours, and in isolation from each other, is not considered satisfactory by the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee and in 2009 the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee issued a joint policy statement on the Introduction of Planning, Preparation and Assessment (PPA) time (TNC 2009/8). This Statement advised that Principals and Boards of Governors should evaluate the potential to TNC 2011/8 Appendix III introduce PPA time for all teachers in their school and attempt to timetable and guarantee this time where possible.’
- Advice on Developing Directed Time Budgets 4.4.5 https://www.eani.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-06/Advice%20on%20Developing%20%20Directed%20Time%20Budgets%20050620.pdf – ‘The Pay & Workload Agreement, April 2020, guarantees that 10% of a teacher’s Directed Time (i.e. 126½ hours per annum) is set aside for Planning, Preparation and Assessment. (PPA). This dedicated PPA time will enable a teacher to raise standards through individual and collaborative professional activity. The Teachers’ (Terms and Conditions of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987, in regard to working time, states that a teacher shall be available to perform such duties at such times and such places as may reasonably be specified by the Principal. School managements should ensure that a teacher’s PPA time is not eroded by demands and should be kept available for teachers to individually prepare, work, plan, mark and meet collaboratively with their colleagues.’
- Agreement between Management and Trade Union Side of the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee TNC 2020/1 – 7 https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202020-1%20Agreement%20Between%20Management%20and%20Trade%20Union%20Side%20of%20the%20Teachers%20%20Negotiating%20Committee.pdf – ‘Directed Time includes time set aside for PPA. This Pay & Workload Agreement guarantees that 10% of Directed Time (126.5 Hours per annum) is set aside for PPA. Dedicated PPA time enables teachers to raise standards through individual and collaborative professional activity.’
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 1.1d https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf – ‘to protect and enhance the professional relationships within a school;’
- TNC 2024/2 Workload Agreement 1.2.2.ii https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/education/TNC%202024-2%20%20Workload%20Agreemeent.pdf -That workloads will be such that contractual duties will normally be completed within contractual hours. Actual work patterns may vary to meet the needs of the school, the department and, if appropriate, the individual but will not involve regular directed working during unsocial hours except with consultation and agreement and with a minimum of 5 working days’ notice.