NSW primary schools
Timetable software that uses your words: RFF, playground duty and casual teachers.
Bell Path builds NSW primary school timetables with relief from face-to-face teaching (RFF) planned for every teacher, shares playground duty fairly, and gives casual teachers a clear day sheet. Tell it your school is in NSW and every screen, PDF and email uses NSW words.
You want every teacher to get their RFF, and software that does not make you translate.
Most timetabling tools were written for another state or for secondary schools. NSW schools end up translating the jargon before they can check whether every teacher gets their RFF.
When you set your school up as a NSW school, Bell Path switches to NSW words. It says RFF instead of APT, playground duty instead of yard duty, and casual teacher instead of CRT. The timetables, the PDFs and the emails your staff receive all use the words your staffroom already uses.
Underneath, it builds the timetable around how NSW primary schools run: part-time teachers and job-shares, specialist lessons that release classroom teachers for RFF, meetings that must not clash with teaching, and rooms that cannot be double-booked. You describe your school in plain steps. Bell Path builds the timetable, then shows you its checking before anyone else sees it.
After the timetable is published, the same tool runs the week. It plans daily cover when a teacher is away, builds playground duty rosters that balance the load, keeps wet weather plans and event timetables, and gives every teacher a staff portal showing their own week.
What goes wrong without it.
RFF lives in a spreadsheet beside the timetable, and nobody is sure every teacher gets theirs.
Playground duty is rostered from memory, so the same teachers keep getting the worst slots on their heaviest days.
Casual teachers arrive to a handwritten note instead of a day sheet with the class, the room and the duties.
Software built for other states or for secondary schools makes you translate its jargon before you can trust it.
What Bell Path does.
What it handles
- RFF for every teacher, checked before you publish
- Playground duty rosters that share the load fairly across the term
- Day sheets for casual teachers, with the classes, rooms, duties and handover notes
- Part-time teachers, job-shares, composite classes and specialist rotations
- A timetable for your SLSOs: who each one supports, and when
- Daily cover, wet weather plans, event timetables and an operations calendar
- A staff portal where each teacher sees their own week
Why schools choose Bell Path
- Every screen, PDF and email says RFF, playground duty and casual teacher
- Built for Australian primary schools, not adapted from secondary or corporate scheduling
- The final check shows RFF gaps and clashes before staff see the timetable
- The timetable, playground duty and daily cover live in one place
Planning stories.
Composite examples of common planning situations, not reports from one school.
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.
A timetable the assistant principal could defend before term started.
Every time one detail changed, the whole draft needed another night of checking. She entered the real rules into Bell Path once, then reviewed the result instead of rebuilding it.
FAQ
Questions schools ask before they start.
Does Bell Path use NSW terminology?
Yes. When your school is in NSW, Bell Path says RFF (relief from face-to-face teaching), playground duty and casual teacher everywhere: the setup steps, the timetable views, the printed PDFs and the emails your staff receive.
Can Bell Path check that every teacher gets their RFF?
Yes. You enter RFF entitlements during setup, and the final check runs before anything is published. If a teacher’s RFF cannot be covered, Bell Path tells you who, why and what to change.
How does playground duty rostering work?
Bell Path builds playground duty rosters from your current timetable. It balances the load across the term, avoids putting duty on a teacher’s heaviest teaching days where it can, and keeps a fairness record you can show staff.
Is Bell Path built for primary schools?
Yes, and only primary schools. It handles planning time, part-time patterns, job-shares, specialist lessons and composite classes. It does not build secondary school timetables.
We are a Catholic or independent school. Do these figures apply to us?
The figures on this page are for government schools. Catholic and independent schools work to their own agreements, so enter your agreement’s figure during setup and Bell Path checks every teacher against it the same way.
How Bell Path compares with other options.
Bell Path vs TimetableMaster
Both products build school timetables. Bell Path is built only for Australian primary schools. TimetableMaster describes itself as an AI-powered scheduling platform for schools, colleges and universities, priced in US dollars.
Bell Path vs Tes Timetable, powered by Edval
Edval is a long-established Australian timetabling suite that now sits under the Tes brand as Tes Timetable, powered by Edval. This page is for a primary school weighing it against Bell Path.
Publish a timetable you can trust.
Setting up your school and previewing part of its timetable is free. A subscription unlocks the full week, sharing and downloads.