WA primary schools
Timetable software that plans DOTT for every teacher and briefs your relief teachers.
Bell Path builds WA primary school timetables with DOTT (duties other than teaching) planned for every teacher, shares duty fairly, and gives relief teachers a clear day sheet. Tell it your school is in WA and every screen, PDF and email uses WA words.
You want DOTT protected and your relief teachers briefed.
In many WA schools, DOTT is kept in a spreadsheet beside the timetable, and nobody is sure the two still agree after the first staffing change.
When you set your school up as a Western Australian school, Bell Path switches to WA words. It says DOTT and relief teacher on every screen, printed timetable and staff email.
Underneath, it builds the timetable around how WA primary schools run: part-time teachers and job-shares, specialist lessons that release classroom teachers for DOTT, 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 relief teacher day sheets, builds 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.
DOTT is in the timetable on paper, but nobody can prove every teacher receives it.
Duty keeps landing on the same people, on their heaviest days, with no record to point to.
Relief teachers start the day with a verbal handover instead of a day sheet.
Every staffing change means rebuilding the timetable by hand.
What Bell Path does.
What it handles
- DOTT for every teacher, checked before you publish
- Duty rosters that share the load fairly across the term
- Day sheets for relief teachers, with the classes, rooms, duties and handover notes
- Part-time teachers, job-shares, composite classes and specialist rotations
- A timetable for your EAs: 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 DOTT and relief teacher
- Built for Australian primary schools, not adapted from secondary or corporate scheduling
- The final check shows DOTT gaps and clashes before staff see the timetable
- The timetable, 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 WA terminology?
Yes. For Western Australian schools, Bell Path says DOTT (duties other than teaching) and relief teacher everywhere: setup, timetable views, PDFs and staff emails.
Can Bell Path check that every teacher gets their DOTT?
Yes. You enter DOTT entitlements during setup, and the final check runs before anything is published. If a teacher’s DOTT 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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