[Carey]

Now that I've finally been offered a teaching position in a primary school, yippee etc, I am now faced with the problem of how to prove to the Salary Assessment Unit, all my experience. Despite NZQA and ITA accepting it all with written statements from past Head teachers, I now need the same again but also the total hours worked as a supply teacher whilst in UK. Well I worked in loads of different schools between 1996 and 2008; how on earth do I get a statement of service? Send in my thick wadge of pay slips detailing each hour worked? No reply from the County Council yet.....anyone any bright ideas?

[tea drinker]

Have you tried Payroll Dept?
When I needed to prove my work experience for NZQA and NZTC I ask Payroll, explained why and they printed off all my supply hours from the first date I worked for them.
It showed all supply (not any contract work) hours for each week (I think rather than months?) and they stamped sheets with official County stamp/address
I'm hoping that this will suffice for me when I get a job offer so will be interested to hear how you get on.

HTH

[JandL]

Did you not work for a teaching agent? If so they should have some evidence of the hours you have worked.

[napiers]

I'm with J & L - at some point I'll have to do the same and I intend to get the agency to do it. Otherwise send them the payslips and they'll either have to wade through them or accept your statement! I don't mean hijack the thread but when I did supply stuff I worked in one school for a term and then another for 2 terms, which is the school I'm currently at. Do you think that I'll need a breakdown of hours for these or will a statement of service do because they were bigger chunks of time?

Good luck getting it all sorted, and with the job - when do you start?

[Carey]

The exact wording for the Salary Assessment Unit is:
Teaching statements of service which state the exact start and end dates, if full-time it must state full time; if part time then total hours worked or hours per week detailed. If the service covers periods of casual day relief, then total hours worked are detailed.

Thanks fo good wishes Napiers, I start next term, 27.4.09 and its fixed term til end of term 4. Am so pleased that I'm finally back to being a teacher!