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Building 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.

Setting it up

  1. 01Define your duty areas and the break times each one covers.
  2. 02Set who is eligible. Some roles are never auto-rostered, and that is deliberate.
  3. 03Generate the roster from the accepted timetable.
  4. 04Adjust anything by hand. Manual changes are kept and counted.

What balancing actually means

  • Total duties are spread across eligible staff over the term rather than the week.
  • Duty is kept off a teacher’s heaviest teaching days where the roster allows it.
  • A year-to-date ledger records what each person has actually done, so the balance carries forward instead of resetting.

Last updated 25 July 2026

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