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It may differ for some. Paid holidays are a legal requirement though so you must get some. They may be pro-rated in line with how many weeks you work I guess.

This document explains transferring roles: How to view and transfer FSMO roles in Windows Server 2003 In terms of naming what we've done here is built new servers with a new name then, in DNS pointed the old name at the new box so the one server answers to both names. Seems to work fine for us.

We spent approx. £25k on consumables for printers last year! Departments print off class sets of material on a regular basis.

The way the bursar showed me is: (No. of hours per week/37 (i.e full time hours) x (No. of weeks worked/52) x full time salary= pro rata salary (divide by 12 for monthly gross income) Bear in mind when you work out your number of weeks it's not just the weeks you work as you get paid holiday weeks, so typically term time only would be 39 weeks + 1 week inset days + 4 weeks paid hol + 2 weeks bank hols=46 weeks paid time. Eg. (32/37)x(46/52)*22000=£16831 PA Bang the result into http://www.thesalarycalculator.co.uk for after tax figures.

The link I gave you in a previous post is relevant to that - it's all about tasks teachers should not be doing. A google for teachers workforce reform will bring up many useful links.

That's what I said earlier about workforce reform or workforce remodelling. It isn't something being brought in in the future - it's here, now. We have been remodelling our workforce for the last 4 years or so to take away non-teaching roles from teachers.

No - it's not his job! If he has time to ghost workstations etc he'd be better served working on some inovative teaching and learning project.

We use SIMS to record behaviour incidents. We are in the process of phasing out paper discipline slips altogether so staff will enter directly into SIMS and heads of year/form tutors will run reports (or have them run for them) to manage that area. I do keep saying to SLT we also need to implement the achievement side of SIMS. If a student is put on report for bad behaviour this will also be done through SIMS in Sept. after a successful pilot this term.

Teachernet, Key steps This lists the tasks that should not be routinely undertaken. Half way down is this: # ICT trouble shooting and minor repairs # Commissioning new ICT equipment

Can't say I blame you - yes I can see the point of some kind of power user to reset passwords (ours have a little custom mmc) etc but full admin just isn't justified in my book (and I'm not some BOFH - I really do try to help 'em where possible). Is he really going to build workstations etc? Workforce reform says clearly that teachers should not be doing things that aren't teaching and learning. Hell I can't even get ours to amend N's in the register! As I said earlier I just can't see a reason why a teacher needs admin access - not because I don't trust them just because I can't see how having it helps them.

No-one but IT tech. support has admin access here. I don't see why anyone else would need it. Outside that we have the usual staff shares etc which staff can access but not students. When the last head of IT came about 7 years ago he asked for it and I politley declined. He wasn't over bothered. I have started to give staff read only access to student folders so they can look for work etc. What "admin" tasks does your head of IT want to do? I think I'd be pretty miffed if the head made me give admin access to anyone else.

£109000 wouldn't buy you a lot here either. And if I could predict the property market I wouldn't be here!

You can indeed manage with one but 2 is good practice as they will replicate AD information between them and if one fails the other can still authenticate.

I think your idea is about right. We have 2 DC's (600 PC) that are just DCs - that's all they do (well DNS & DHCP as well). All user files are stored over 3 NAS boxes and another box doing print serving/windows update/antivirus. Your plan sounds like it will move you in the right direction.

We got ours from Jigsaw 24 UK Largest Reseller Of Apple Computers - Jigsaw Systems LTD Not sure about the warranty off the top of my head but the odd issue we have had (1 battery failure + 1 charger failure) were dealt with well. That said they are probably the most trouble free of all our systems.

1. Not sure if there is a legal reason although I guess you have a duty of care to staff. 2. Staff are filtered her 3. It is exactly the same filter as students use.

Just to say the sheet I uploaded yesterday had one or 2 errors in it. The link now has an amended version with the corrections made. Sorry

Think one of the best shows I ever saw for things like that was a fly on the wall documentry called "The Armstrongs" which followed a couple who ran U Fit - Coventrys 3rd largest double glazing firm (how many are there in coventry ffs!) The guy was great at just talking rubbish and trying to make it sound profound. It's repeated on the UK something channel on Sky and well worth a watch - they are priceless.

Did anyone find out the salary?

Sure - it's attached. There's lots of hidden columns and things so points can be looked up. Also as male and female can compete in different events you need to enter males and females seperately -- I do this by just filtering on gender. I think next year I'll create seperate sheets for them. Also Y7&8 score on one system and Y9&10 on another. Give me a yell if you need any more help with it as it's all in my head and not documented. Sports Day 2008.zip

We're only just going to play with it. Looks good though as it puts cover lessons on the teachers timeline so they can easily take registers etc.

We've just gone T6 - it's ok. No real pitfalls. Cover 7 is out as part of .net so you can effectively ditch T4. We will be doing in September all being well. You can print timetables etc from .net The only thing I would say is that a lot of the quick reports - class lists etc which are quick to get from T4 are faffier (I think I made that word up) in .net Would be good to see some of that replicated.

I agree with what others have said - stick some fibre in and be done. It's the right way to do the job.

Not sure why it wouldn't be advisable. We had a cracking admin person who changed jobs to learning mentor on the back of an internal appointment and she's superb at the job. In past jobs I've appointed internally a fair bit - it means I get someone in post who I know will fit in.

We advertise vacancies internally from time to time -usually when SLT have someone in mind for a job.