Primary Schools

Although some Primary Schools use the High School techniques, the most common technique used by Primary Schools is called "Timetabling by Exception" or "Reverse Timetabling".

The idea of Reverse Timetabling is to focus on creating a timetable for the specialist teachers (Art, Music, PE, etc). Then the home/core teacher takes the class in the OTHER times. So blank periods on the timetable indicate students are with their home/core teacher.

The benefit of this technique is it is simple to construct in a spreadsheet - here's a brief overview of the technique.



Here is a brief explanation of some techniques i use



Can you improve this timetable? Or can you identify times when there may be issues?