Example
Staffroom weekly roster
A print-style example with the week, duty areas, staff names, gaps, and notes in one place.
Mon Recess · Oval · James
Tue Lunch · Library · Priya
Coverage gaps · 0
Yard duty roster software
Yard duty fairness, visible across the whole year.
Bell Path turns yard duty into a ledger you can show, not an argument you have to remember. Hours and counts side by side, credited time included, and a wet-day plan that lives in the same workspace.
Yard duty · year-to-date
Fairness ledger
Term 2 · Week 4 of 10
Team avg 5h 00m
Staff
Roster
Credit
Total
Load (vs avg)
±
Bennett
4h 30m
30m
5h 00m
0
Chen
4h 00m
30m
4h 30m
−30m
Okafor
4h 15m
30m
4h 45m
−15m
Nguyen
4h 15m
45m
5h 00m
0
Patel
4h 00m
1h 15m
5h 15m
+15m
Singh
4h 30m
1h 00m
5h 30m
+30m
Where to start in the app
The promise maps to three tabs: Roster, Settings, and History.
If you are already signed in, open Yard Duty first. Use Roster for the weekly board, Settings for staff rules and wet-day groups, and History when you need to explain year-to-date load.
Roster
Open the week, adjust a duty, then save before printing.
Settings
Check duty times, staff exceptions, credited activities, and wet-day groups.
History
Use year-to-date hours to explain fairness without rebuilding a spreadsheet.
Year to date
Fairness view
Hours + counts
Load tracking
Linked
Wet-day swap
PDF + print
Distribution
The shape of the problem
Fairness rarely starts with one roster.
Most school leaders landing here are trying to stop another round of hidden clashes, fairness concerns, and after-hours cleanup.
Yard duty complaints rarely start with one roster. They build when nobody can prove whether the load has stayed fair across the term or the year.
Bell Path keeps the ledger open: rostered minutes, credited minutes, and how each teacher sits against the team average. Wet-day swaps reuse the same panel of staff, so a 10:48 forecast change does not become a separate document.
Best fit
- Primary schools where duty fairness gets challenged at staff meetings
- Leaders cutting fragmentation across timetable, cover, and duty work
- Teams who need same-day printable outputs and an auditable trail across the year
Where trust wobbles
Pressure points Bell Path is built to absorb.
These are the moments that turn a quiet draft into another rewrite, an awkward staff conversation, or a Sunday-night fix.
Fairness gets argued from memory because nobody has a year-to-date view at hand.
Meeting cover, leave, and credited duties are tracked as manual exceptions on the side.
Wet-day plans live in a separate file, so the people on yard are not always the people on indoor zones.
Wet-day plan, in place
A 10:48 forecast change is one screen, not a second document.
When the rain comes through, the wet-day plan loads the same teacher panel you already had on yard and lets you remap them to indoor zones in place. The staffroom and office cannot end up holding different versions of the day.
- Same teacher panel — no rebuilding the roster from scratch
- Indoor zones held alongside outdoor zones for every period
- Wet-day PDF prints from the same workspace as the dry-day PDF
Outdoor roster
Mon · 10:48
North gate
Bennett
South gate
Chen
Big oval
Nguyen
Small oval
Okafor
Undercover
Patel
Sandpit
Singh
6 zones
Wet-day plan
Mon · 10:48
Hall
Bennett
Library
Chen
Stage 2 quiet
Nguyen
Stage 4 quiet
Okafor
Foyer
Patel
Music room
Singh
6 zones
Example outputs
Check what staff would actually see before you commit.
These are non-editable examples, so a school leader can inspect the staffroom printout, wet-day version, and fairness ledger before opening the live workspace.
View sample staffroom PDF
Example
Wet-day indoor version
A non-editable example showing the same week remapped to indoor supervision areas.
Hall · Recess · Cassie
Library · Lunch · Bonnie
Unresolved rooms · 0
Example
Year-to-date ledger
A sample of the hours-first ledger used when staff ask how yard duty has been balanced.
Cassie · 3h 45m total
Bonnie · 3h 30m total
Credited activities included
What Bell Path handles
From school setup to a duty roster you can explain with confidence.
Core scheduling coverage
- Year-to-date balance in hours and counts, side by side
- Credited time for meeting cover, late arrivals, and approved exemptions
- Named zones — gate, oval, undercover — with split staffing where one duty needs two
- A wet-day plan that pulls the same teacher panel and remaps it in place
- PDF outputs for the staffroom, the cover sheet, and the year-to-date ledger
Why schools choose Bell Path
- Fairness becomes a ledger anyone can read, not a debate at the printer
- Duty planning sits beside timetable and cover data, so absences flow without re-keying
- Wet-day swaps are one screen, not a separate spreadsheet emailed at 8:55am
- Year-to-date balance carries across terms instead of resetting with the new roster
Related stories
See how Bell Path fits real school pressure.
De-identified planning stories based on Bell Path workflow patterns, with school names and identifying details kept out.
FAQ
Questions schools ask about yard duty roster software.
Does Bell Path track yard duty in hours, in counts, or both?
Both. You can run the school on duty counts, real minutes, or read both side by side. Year-to-date balance stays consistent either way.
How are meeting cover, late arrivals, and credited duties handled?
Credited time is recorded against the staff member it should count for and flows into the year-to-date ledger automatically. The duty is filled by someone else, but the original teacher still receives credit.
Can Bell Path handle wet-day plans?
Yes. Wet-day plans pull the same teacher panel as the outdoor roster and let you remap them to indoor zones in place. The wet-day PDF prints from the same workspace.
Can a single duty be staffed by more than one teacher?
Yes. Zones can be split where one location needs two staff — for example a long fence line with two gates — and each split tracks against the right teacher.
Does it integrate with daily cover when a teacher is absent?
Yes. Absences entered for cover flow into the duty roster, so a teacher booked off in the morning is not left on a duty at 10:48.
What does the staffroom actually see?
A printed weekly roster, a wet-day version of the same week, and a year-to-date balance ledger. All three come out of the same workspace, so they cannot disagree.
Ready when you are
Publish a timetable you can trust.
Bell Path helps assistant principals and principals move from spreadsheet stress to a calmer, fairer, more explainable planning workflow.