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Directed time calculator

Calculate your annual directed-time allowance and the hours left in your calendar: 1,265 × contractual FTE.

Contractual FTE

Full-time equivalent: enter 1 for full-time or, for example, 0.6 for a 60% contract.

Contracted timetable days and hours

Enter FTE, or complete all three timetable fields. The timetable route calculates days × hours per day ÷ the school's full teaching week. If day lengths vary, use the contractual FTE.

Use this route only when each contracted day has the same number of timetabled hours.

Include PPA and other non-contact time within the timetabled teaching week. Exclude breaks, registration and assemblies.

Use the school's actual weekly total on the same basis, including PPA and non-contact time. Do not use total on-site hours.

Enter the annual total from the directed-time calendar to calculate the remaining hours.

Clear calculation

Teachers covered by STPCD 2026 directed-time provisions in England. Leadership-group posts and leading practitioners are outside them. Academies: check the contract.

Calculation basis and sources

STPCD 2026, 52.4–52.8, 52.12; timetable basis 41.1 and Section 3, 43, 85–90. Headteachers, deputies, assistant heads and leading practitioners are outside these directed-time provisions. Schools set the timetable and required duties; count required time under these provisions. Reasonable additional professional work, daily breaks and commuting sit outside this allowance.

HeadteacherChat · Directed time calculator

Directed time calculation

England · STPCD 2026

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https://headteacherchat.com/tools/directed-time-calculator

Inputs

Contractual FTE
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Contracted timetable days per week
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Timetabled hours per contracted day
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School's full timetabled teaching week in hours
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Directed hours already planned (optional)
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Result

Enter valid values to calculate directed time.

Teachers covered by STPCD directed-time provisions in England. Leadership-group posts and leading practitioners are outside them. Academies: check the contract.

Schools set the timetable and required duties; count required time under these provisions. Reasonable additional professional work, daily breaks and commuting sit outside this allowance.

Sources

  1. STPCD 2026 · 52.4–52.8, 52.12; timetable basis 41.1 and Section 3, 43, 85–90
    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-pay-and-conditions

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The 1,265 directed hours

For a full-time teacher covered by the STPCD directed-time provisions in a local-authority-maintained school in England, the 1,265 hours specified by the headteacher must be allocated reasonably across the required days. Part-time teachers covered by these provisions have the corresponding proportion of those hours.

The daily break and travel to or from work do not count. Reasonable additional hours for professional duties sit outside directed time; the employer cannot prescribe their number or when they are worked.

Source: STPCD 2026, 52.5–52.8 and 52.12. Checked against the source on .

Read the pay and conditions guide for the full rules, or the workload guide for planning meetings and other duties.