For relief teachers
Your whole day on your phone before you walk in.
At a school that uses Bell Path, one text brings you the times, the rooms, your duties and any plan the teacher left. You need no account and no app to read it.
A made-up school’s day, as it opens on your phone.
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Sample day · for illustration
Relief teachers often arrive without a plan.
The run sheet is on a bench somewhere
You arrive at a school you have never seen, and the plan for your day is a printout in a staffroom nobody showed you. Some days you find it at lunchtime.
"Session 2" means nothing yet
Every school runs different times. One school has fifty minute sessions and the next has an hour. A sheet that says "S2" without the clock time helps nobody who is new.
Acronyms nobody explains
APT, NCT, SSG, "cover 3B after the split". A day sheet should speak in sentences to the one person in the building who does not know the shorthand yet.
What the day sheet tells them.
The sheet comes from the school’s cover plan, so it always matches what the cover planner decided.
The exact times
Your day runs 9:00 to 3:30. Recess is 11:00 to 11:23. The times are spelled out whenever the school has recorded its bell times, because the person reading the sheet may work at five different schools in a week.
Where you are, room by room
The sheet names the classroom, the art room, and the oval when you are on duty, not just a class code.
Why you are in each room
When your class goes to Music, the sheet says who you are covering next and why: their teacher is getting a planning hour.
What changed since this morning
The page updates every time it is opened. When the cover planner changes something you would read and publishes the day again, Bell Path emails or texts you to look again.
What to do on arrival
Where to report, where the keys are, and how sign-in works.
The teacher's own plan for the class
When the teacher you are covering has shared a class plan, it sits under each session: what to teach, the links and files, and anything about the class you should know. Lesson files open on the school laptop with one short code from the brief. The plan opens the first time you open the school’s text on the day, or after a four-digit code sent to your phone if the link reached you another way. It is checked once for the day, so keep the text to yourself.
A way to say how the day went
At the end of the day the brief asks how it went. Mark each session as planned, partly done, changed course or not reached, add a line, or record one voice message for the class teacher to play. Or tap that you left a handwritten note.
For principals and daily organisers
Look after the people who cover your school.
Relief teachers talk to each other
A school that hands over a clear, kind day gets its calls answered next time cover is short. A good day sheet is the easiest way to become a school relief teachers want to come back to.
Day one goes better for the kids
A relief teacher who knows the times, the rooms, and the reasons teaches from 9:00, instead of decoding a printout until 9:40.
Changes reach the person in the room
Change the day and every day sheet link shows the new plan. Follow-up emails and texts go out only when something the relief teacher would read has changed.
You already did the work
The day sheet comes from the cover plan you already built. It is one link you copy, text or email, with nothing extra to maintain.
What to read next.
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