A varied picture is emerging regarding the take-up of the Department of Education's offer for teaching staff to have an extra day at the end of the Christmas and New Year holiday.
The scheme was announced at short notice last month when officials said all the Island's schools would be closed to pupils today and the teachers allowed to take an extra day of annual leave, in exchange for covering additional lessons later in the term.
At Ballakermeen High School nearly all the staff elected to take the day as leave, at Queen Elizabeth II High School in Peel about half did so, and at Ramsey Grammar School, where National Union of Teachers branch secretary Karl Flint teaches, around 80 per cent of staff turned up for work as normal, as the union recommended.
So far the Department of Education has been unable to provide figures for all schools, but hopes to have collated them by tomorrow.
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