Queensland primary schools
Timetable software that plans NCT for every teacher and briefs your supply teachers.
Bell Path builds Queensland primary school timetables with non-contact time (NCT) planned for every teacher, shares playground duty fairly, and gives supply teachers a day sheet with everything they need. Tell it your school is in Queensland and every screen, PDF and email uses Queensland words.
You want NCT planned properly and your supply teachers briefed.
In many Queensland schools, non-contact time is checked by hand, and supply teachers get a note instead of a day sheet with the class, the room and the duties on it.
When you set your school up as a Queensland school, Bell Path switches to Queensland words. It says non-contact time (NCT), playground duty and supply teacher. Screens, printed timetables and staff emails all match.
Underneath, it builds the timetable around how Queensland primary schools run: part-time teachers and job-shares, specialist lessons that release classroom teachers for NCT, 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 and prints supply teacher day sheets, builds playground duty rosters that balance the term, keeps wet weather plans and event timetables, and gives every teacher a staff portal showing their own week.
What goes wrong without it.
NCT is promised in the timetable but tracked in someone’s head, so shortfalls only show up after it is published.
Playground duty piles up on the same reliable people, and there is no fairness record to point to.
Supply teachers get a sticky note instead of a day sheet with the classes, rooms and duties.
Every staffing change means rebuilding the timetable by hand.
What Bell Path does.
What it handles
- NCT for every teacher, checked before you publish
- Playground duty rosters that share the load fairly across the term
- Day sheets for supply teachers, with the classes, rooms, duties and handover notes
- Part-time teachers, job-shares, composite classes and specialist rotations
- A timetable for your teacher aides: 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 NCT, playground duty and supply teacher
- Built for Australian primary schools, not adapted from secondary or corporate scheduling
- The final check shows NCT 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 Queensland terminology?
Yes. For Queensland schools, Bell Path says NCT (non-contact time), playground duty and supply teacher everywhere: setup, timetable views, PDFs and staff emails.
Can Bell Path check that every teacher gets their NCT?
Yes. You enter NCT entitlements during setup, and the final check runs before anything is published. If a teacher’s non-contact time cannot be covered, Bell Path tells you who, why and what to change.
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.
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