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A planning story

Three job-share pairs and one specialist who also taught a class.

The assistant principal was holding the job-share and specialist arrangements in spreadsheets and her own memory. She entered them into Bell Path once, then reviewed one timetable instead of four drafts.

This story is a composite. It describes a situation many primary schools will recognise, without naming a school.

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Three job-share pairs made every change risky.

The school had three job-share pairs, several specialist rotations, and a specialist who also taught her own class. One small staffing change could affect class coverage, planning time and room use all at once.

The assistant principal knew the school well, but the agreements that held the week together lived in spreadsheets, side notes and her memory.

The timetable could look fine and still be risky to share.

Job-shares create clashes that only show up late. A class looked covered until a handover landed in the same slot as a specialist lesson.

She was also the only person who could explain why a version should be trusted.

The arrangements moved into Bell Path.

She entered part-time days, job-share patterns, meetings and coverage rules in Bell Path’s setup. When Bell Path built the timetable, she reviewed it by teacher, by class and by room, and the checks showed whether the week held together.

One timetable she could explain.

There was one version to review and one set of decisions to explain.

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