A planning story
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.
The story
The setup
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 strain
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 shift
She entered part-time days, job-share patterns, meetings and coverage rules in Bell Path’s setup. When Bell Path generated the timetable, she reviewed it by teacher, by class and by room, and the checks showed whether the week held together.
The result
There was one version to review and one set of decisions to explain. She could put the timetable in front of staff without apologising for it.
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School timetable generator
Bell Path builds a primary school timetable from the details you give it: staff, classes, part-time days, planning time, meetings and rooms. It then checks the result and shows you what it could and could not fit.
Australian primary school timetable software
Bell Path is timetable software for Australian primary schools. It uses your state's words for planning time and duty, and it is built around how Australian primary schools staff a week.
Teacher timetable generator
Bell Path builds each teacher's timetable from the whole-school one, so part-time days, meetings and planning time are respected on every sheet.
Ready when you are
Bell Path builds the timetable from the details you give it, checks it before staff see it, and keeps working through the term for cover and duty rosters.
