Members will not attend more than one meeting each week outside pupil session times, lasting no more than one hour, without consultation or agreement with the NASUWT.

Members will not undertake directed duties, including attendance at meetings or training, outside school session times on weekdays in circumstances that would require the teacher to:

1. perform duties specified by their employer for more than 1,265 hours in the school year (pro rata for teachers working part time);

2. breach their right to a satisfactory work/life balance; or

3. exceed the 48-hour working time limit (Working Time Regulations 1998).

If it is unclear whether the time to perform the duty in question is within the 1,265 hours, members should request their employer to provide a copy of the directed time calendar and perform the duty only if their employer confirms to the member that the time is included within the 1,265 hours of directed time.

Members will refuse to be directed to undertake extracurricular activities, unless these have been specified and allocated within the annual 1,265 hours of directed time (pro rata for teachers working part time).

If it is unclear whether the time to perform the duty in question is within the 1,265 hours, members should request their employer to provide a copy of the directed time calendar and perform the duty only if their employer confirms to the member that the time is included within the 1,265 hours of directed time.

Where members volunteer freely to undertake extracurricular activities and have not been placed under pressure to do so, the action short of strike action instructions are not intended to prevent those activities from continuing.

Refuse to be directed to undertake midday supervision of pupils unless that is required by and remunerated under a separate non-teaching contract.

Where a member is required to be available for work for more than one school session on any school day, members will take one break of reasonable length each day, for at least 30 minutes, either between school sessions or between the hours of 12 noon and 2pm.

Members shall refuse to be directed to undertake any activities during their lunch break.

Members will refuse to be directed to undertake directed work-related tasks or activities, including planning, marking, or sending/responding to work-related emails on weekends or bank holidays or to the extent that would deprive the teacher of a satisfactory work/life balance, unless the teacher’s contract expressly provides for this.

Members will carry out planning, preparation, marking and assessment activities during their timetabled PPA time and will refuse to carry out any other duties, including supervision of pupils and attendance at meetings, during their timetabled PPA time.

Cover for absence is not an effective use of teachers’ time. With the exception of teachers who are employed wholly or mainly for the purpose of providing cover, members will refuse to be directed to cover for absent colleagues in circumstances that are foreseeable.

Absence occurs when the person who has been timetabled to take a particular class or group is absent. The type of absence could be for a variety of reasons, including internal and external activities, as well as sickness. It could be short-term or long-term.

Foreseeable circumstances for a school will include events that may be anticipated on the basis of historical experience, events that are foreseeable in the normal experience, e.g. sickness absence, maternity leave, and events that may be expected as part of the evolving pattern of provision, e.g. educational visits.

Members will refuse to routinely participate in administrative, clerical and organisational tasks which do not call for the exercise of a teacher’s professional skills and judgement, including those associated with the arrangements for preparing pupils for external examinations such as invigilation.

An illustrative list of tasks that members should not undertake is available separately on the right/below.

Members will refuse to co-operate with mock inspections or ‘mocksteds’ or activities not required for the purpose of statutory school inspection.

Members will not implement any new planning, marking or data management policies, initiatives or working practices which have not been the subject of consultation or agreement with the NASUWT.

Members will not comply with any existing or new marking and assessment policy, including homework policy, which has not been the subject of consultation or agreement with the NASUWT and which does not comply with the principles of effective marking as set out in the report of the independent Reducing Teacher Workload: Marking Policy Review Group.

Members will not co-operate with the preparation of lesson plans in a format that has been predetermined by the school or that has not been the subject of consultation or agreement with the NASUWT.

Members will not collect data outside the school’s assessment and data management calendar that has also been the subject of consultation or agreement with the NASUWT.