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How to set up and run a primary school timetable.
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Getting started
Staff and classes
Adding part-time teachers
Enter the days they work and Bell Path works out the entitlement from those days.
ReadSetting up a job-share
Enter each teacher separately so each gets their own planning time on the days they work.
ReadTeachers who are both classroom and specialist
For a teacher who has their own class and also teaches a specialist subject. Enter both roles and Bell Path keeps them from clashing.
ReadPlanning time
How planning time is calculated
Australia uses two different systems, and which one applies to you decides whether your bell times matter.
ReadWhat to do about a planning-time shortfall
A shortfall means your school has promised more release than it can supply, and rearranging the week cannot create supply. Schools close one in four ways.
ReadRecording and removing staff agreements
An agreement records a teacher accepting less than their entitlement. Record the reason and the compensation, and remove it as soon as it is no longer needed.
ReadBuilding the timetable
Reading the Final Check
What the Final Check tests before you build, what its labels mean, and how to clear each item.
ReadWhy a timetable will not build
The four usual reasons a timetable will not build, and how to narrow down which one you have.
ReadRebuilding after a staffing change
Change the setup, build a new version, and compare it. The previous version stays exactly where it was.
ReadFortnightly timetables: Week A and Week B
When a subject or meeting cannot fit every week, mark it fortnightly. Bell Path places it in one week of the two and still checks planning time in both.
ReadRunning the week
Covering an absence on the morning
On the morning: add the absence, see who is free, choose cover, and publish the plan.
ReadBuilding a yard duty roster
The roster comes from the timetable, balances across the term, and keeps a record you can show a staff member who asks.
ReadRunning a wet day
Declare a wet day and the outdoor roster converts to indoor supervision on the same screen.
ReadWhat the relief teacher receives: the CRT brief
What opens straight away, what stays locked until the relief teacher’s phone is confirmed, how the absent teacher adds their class plan, and what the relief teacher can leave at the end of the day.
ReadTell us which step stopped you.
Say which page you were on and what you expected to happen, and we will help.