For teachers

Term time is not the problem. Everything bolted onto it is

A teaching timetable is the most predictable part of a teacher’s week and the least representative of it. Parents’ evenings, after-school clubs, trips, meetings and marking are the hours that actually decide whether you are home, and none of them appear on the timetable everyone else assumes you keep.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

The timetable

Fixed, published, and the reason everyone thinks your day ends mid-afternoon.

Parents’ evenings and open evenings

Occasional, immovable, and running well into the evening.

Clubs, duties and trips

Before school, after school and occasionally an entire weekend.

Marking and reports

Deadline-driven weeks that consume evenings while looking like ordinary ones.

What it sounds like at home

“Everyone thinks I finish when the children do.”
“Parents’ evening is in the diary at school and nowhere at home.”
“Report weeks eat my evenings and nobody sees it coming.”
“A residential trip takes a weekend and I mention it too late.”
“My own family plan around a school day that is not my working day.”

Where Freeish fits

The evenings that actually get taken are visible in advance rather than announced the day before.

Marking and report weeks can be blocked out, so busy reads as busy.

Trips and residentials go in as multi-day blocks.

Your family plan around your real week rather than the school day.

One week, start to finish

Mr Adeyemi, secondary

The term’s calendar of evening commitments comes out in September.
He puts the parents’ evenings and open evening in as a block.
His wife sees the two report weeks and plans nothing for either.
The Year 9 residential goes in as a three-day block in advance.
Nobody at home assumes he is free at half three again.

Questions teachers ask

Do I need to put my whole timetable in?

Usually not. What your family cannot predict is the evenings and the trips, and those are the ones worth adding.

Can pupils or parents see it?

No. Freeish has no directory and no search. Only people you personally invite see anything.

Can I block out a marking week?

Yes — add it as an event. That is how a week that looks free reads as busy to everyone else.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.