Attendance and Breaks

Teaching staff attendance

The ordinary hours of teacher attendance at Glenroy College will be as follows:

The balance of the 38 hours (110 minutes) may be completed off-site.

Teachers will be required to attend up to a maximum of 2 x 1 hour meetings per week (pro rata) which are adjacent to the school day. Morning briefings (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) are opportunities for staff to be collegiate and communicate and be informed about operations, events and practices. Minutes can be found on Teams to ensure that staff are informed. The remaining hour will be taken up by professional  duties undertaken at school adjacent to the school day.

Teaching Staff – breaks

Teachers are entitled to a paid lunch break of not less than thirty minutes free from assigned duties between the hours of 11.30am and 2.30pm. A lunch break is part of the 8-hour component of the 30 + 8 model.

Education support staff attendance

Education support employees attend for maximum of 7.6 hours daily between 7am and 6pm from Monday to Friday. Individual ES attendance arrangements, including starting and finishing times, and break time are agreed at the commencement of employment based on the requirements of the position and the availability of the employee and can be varied where both the principal and the employee agree. All part-time staff arrangements will be pro-rata. In the absence of agreed arrangements, daily start and finish times will be 8:30am and 4:36pm, respectively.

Education Support Staff – breaks

Education Support staff are entitled to a 30-minute unpaid lunch break and free from assigned duties between the hours of 11.30am and 2.30pm. The break will be scheduled no later than 5 hours after the scheduled starting time. A lunch break roster will be developed by the relevant leader in consultation with ES staff. In exceptional circumstances where an education support class employee is required to undertake  duties and not able to take a lunch break free from assigned duties within that employee will be provided with an alternate break within five hours of the employee’s commencement of work on that day.