Directed Time Budget

The hours a full-time teacher can be directed by the headteacher to be available for work, set at 1,265 over 195 days in England and Wales. Planning, preparation and marking sit outside it and are instead covered by a duty to work such reasonable additional hours as are necessary.

Not in that form. Scotland uses a 35-hour week with a maximum class-contact time, and other systems specify contact ratios or annual hours. The arithmetic here works for any of them if you enter the local total.

A published breakdown showing how the school has allocated the 1,265 hours across the year. Schools are expected to produce one, and it is the document that turns a workload argument into an accounting one.