A teacher who is asked once in a year to take pupils from a split class for a whole day while their teacher is absent would be covering for at least five hours, which would not fall within the definition of ‘rarely’.
In addition, our view is that ‘only rarely’ applies not just to the number of individual occasions, but to the total number of hours that a teacher is asked to provide cover on a particular occasion.
The NEU interpretation is that teachers should be asked to undertake cover only in exceptional circumstances, such as emergency situations.
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