Sing Education offers several innovative solutions to solve your PPA cover needs. We work closely with headteachers to ensure they can meet their PPA requirements in the best way possible given their school’s current timetable, teaching staff numbers and curriculum objectives.
Singing assemblies and/or music lessons can be used as PPA Cover. Schools often use singing assembly time as PPA Cover for a whole year group, for instance.
In this case, a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) or another member of the academic team supports the assembly as needed, while the other teachers can have PPA time together, planning as a year group, for instance, or as a Key Stage group. Because singing assemblies require very little advance preparation, there is added benefit to this type of cover – limited prep means more cover period time gets applied to PPA responsibilities.
Music lessons are another way we can support your PPA needs. Lessons can be scheduled on rotation with another specialist provision, such as PE. In this way, sometimes children will go from music to PE to art, for example, keeping all the PPA time together for the teacher. Again, this minimises teacher movement and maximises actually planning time. Over a 120 coverage minute period, this could save as much as 30 minutes!
At Sing Education, we’ve helped schools to timetable this and to plan out how curricular music can support PPA cover, making the timetable work more efficiently for them. Because we’ve seen how it’s worked across a variety of schools, we can offer our extensive expertise.