🌍 Global conversations on the future of teaching. Jacquie White, General Secretary, recently attended the International Summit on the Teaching Profession in Tallinn, Estonia, representing the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Council (NITC) alongside Paul Givan, Minister of Education. #ISTP26Tallinn 📚✨

🤝 Joint Unions Webinar (UTU • INTO NI • NEU NI) 🍎 👶 Focus: Shared Parental Leave + TNC Q&A 📅 Thu 19 Feb | ⏰ 4pm 💻 Microsoft Teams A supportive space to ask questions, get advice & feel confident at work 💙 📝 Register:

NITPS Members’ Portal An online, web-based portal for NI Teachers’ Pension Scheme (NITPS) members. Once you’ve created a portal account, you can: ✅ Update your personal details ✅ View and print your Annual Benefit Statement (ABS) 🔗 Find full details & access links here: linktr.ee/UlsterTeache...

🚨Due to the adverse weather conditions the office may not be fully operational today. If you require advice or support please send your details to [email protected] and an Official will get back to you as soon as possible.

Substitute teachers who were booked to work today in schools closed by Storm Chandra should have their booking honoured. Any substitute teachers who find themselves in the unfortunate position of having a booking cancelled are advised to contact us at [email protected] for guidance.

Pay Offer Update 📢 Following consultation, the UTU CEC are in a position to accept the pay offer ✅ The offer includes: ➡️ 4% consolidated pay increase across all salary levels ➡️ Applies to Teaching & SEN allowances ➡️ For 2025–2026 Thank you to all members who engaged in the consultation 👏

🚨 IMPORTANT – PAY OFFER 🚨 Member Survey Now Open ⏰ Closes 5pm, Monday 12 January Please check your email inbox 👉 If you haven’t received the email, check your junk/spam folder. 👉 Still not there? Please contact UTU HQ for assistance: 📩 [email protected] Your voice matters — make sure it’s heard.

Teachers' Pay Offer Proposed New Pay Scales - 2025/2026 can be found at 🔗 linktr.ee/UlsterTeache...

📢 𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 📢 The offer proposes a 4% consolidated increase to all teacher salary scale points and a 4% increase to all allowances, backdated to 1 Sept 2025. "Of course we will now take this offer to our members before coming back to the management side with a formal response."

📢 PAY OFFER UPDATE 📢 An update on the pay offer has now been issued. 📧 Members are advised to check their email for full details and next steps.

🎄✨ Membership Plus ~ 12 Days of Christmas Competition – Winner! ✨🎄 🎉 Congratulations to ANDREW EWART! 🎉 Andrew, a UTU member, is one of the 12 Days of Christmas Competition winners and has bagged a fantastic £100 EXSTO Apparel gift card thanks to Membership Plus! 👕🎁

🎄 CHRISTMAS CLOSURE NOTICE 🎄 Please note that UTU Headquarters will close at 12 noon on Tuesday 23 December 2025 🕛 🗓️We will reopen at 9:00am on Monday 5 January 2026. 🎅🏻✨ Wishing all our members and partners a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 🎉❤️📚🎄

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from Ulster Teachers’ Union ✨🎄 As the year draws to a close, we would like to wish all our teacher members and our valued partners a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful, refreshing break. 🌟🎅 Thank you for your continued commitment, professionalism and support throughout the year

🎄✨ UTU CHRISTMAS COMPETITION ✨🎄 Calling UTU teacher members! 👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 Get festive with your class and showcase their creativity 🎨🎶 🌟 Fantastic prizes to be won Let your class shine this Christmas ✨ 🔗 Full details in bio

📣 The Winter Edition of SHOUT UNION is here! ❄️📘 We’re delighted to share the latest issue, packed with inspiring stories, member voices, school features, and updates shaping education across NI. 👩‍🏫✨ 🔗read by clicking the link ➡️https://linktr.ee/UlsterTeachersUnion

Stephen McCord DGS attended the EI Global Conference on AI, held in Brussels, Belgium, from 4-5 Dec 2025, marking the first global gathering of member organisations to explore the opportunities and challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence in education and research. #HumanCentredAI #GoPublic

No algorithm can replace the connection between teacher and student. The ❤️ of education will always be human. #HumanCentredAI #GoPublic @eduinternational.bsky.social

AI should enhance, not undermine, teachers’ autonomy and working conditions. Educators demand clear policies and fair training so AI is a tool for quality education, not control. #HumanCentredAI #GoPublic

🗨️ Do not look away! The fight here is about making sure the teachers have the power, the resources, so that any AI tool supplements, not supplants, the human endeavour of teaching. - @rweingarten.bsky.social, president of @aft.org #GoPublic #HumanCentredAI

🔓 Unlocking voices: Discover how AI is transforming classrooms for students with disabilities. Read about inspiring stories. ⬇️ #IDPD2025 https://eiie.io/4auGDKd

No algorithm can replace the connection between teacher and student. The heart of education will always be human. #HumanCentredAI #GoPublic

At EI’s Global Conference on AI, @wayne-holmes.bsky.social of @ucl.ac.uk challenges myths about AI and education. What does a human-centred approach look like? #GoPublic #HumanCentredAI

🗨️ AI reforms aren’t linear—they’re contested and political. - @Kyungmee_Lee of @SeoulNatlUni unpacks the realities behind billion-dollar EdTech projects and their impact on classrooms. #HumanCentredAI #GoPublic

How do we protect teacher autonomy, guarantee equity, safeguard privacy, and keep education public when Artificial Intelligence enters our schools? Education unions from around the world are coming together to build the #FutureWeNeed. #HumanCentredAI #GoPublic @eduinternational.bsky.social

📅 Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities! We call for increased investment in education, education support personnel and the teaching profession to recruit and retain educators essential for achieving inclusive education for all. #IDPD2025 #GoPublic

Joint Union Health & Safety Rep Training 🦺💪 A productive day in Belfast as UTU, INTO & NEU came together for joint training — strengthening our shared commitment to safe, supported schools. 💙 #StrongerTogether #UnionTraining #HealthAndSafety

📅 World Arthritis Day | 12 October Today we stand in solidarity with all teachers, school staff, and pupils living with arthritis. 💙 Arthritis can affect people of all ages — including colleagues in our classrooms and the children we teach.

This afternoon, the Ulster Teachers' Union Central Executive Committee joined with our colleagues from Irish National Teachers' Organisation NI Northern Committee and NEU Northern Ireland officers & committee members for a Joint Meeting —

💚 World Mental Health Day | 10 October Mental health isn’t just one part of our lives — it’s every part. It’s a hard day’s work in the classroom, a chat in the staffroom, a quiet evening at home, or a moment spent supporting a pupil in need.

💪📚 Joint Union School Representative Training 🤝✨ A fantastic start to our first School Representative Training Day of the academic year — delivered in partnership with our Irish National Teachers' Organisation NI and NEU Northern Ireland colleagues! 🙌

🎉📚 UTU Celebrates World Teachers’ Day! 📚🎉 This Sunday, 5th October 2025, we join with teachers around the world to celebrate the incredible work, dedication, and passion that educators bring to their classrooms every day. 🍎✨ #WorldTeachersDay #UTU #ProudToTeach #UlsterTeachersUnion

👥 JOINT UNION REPS TRAINING 👥 📌 Health & Safety in School 🗓 Day 1: Role of the Rep – Focusing on Health, Safety, and Wellbeing 📍 Belfast 🕤 Wednesday 15th October | 9:30am – 3:30pm ✊ Working Together for Teachers and Principals ✊ Register at 🔗 ti.to/jointunion/h...

🌟 IN-PERSON PRE-RETIREMENT SEMINAR 🌟 📝 Learn valuable insights and get an in-depth look at the Teachers’ Pension Scheme. 📅 Thur 16th October 🕓 4.00pm – 5.30pm 📍 Armagh City Hotel Hosted in partnership with Platinum Financial Planning Ltd 💼✨ #RetirementPlanning #Teachers Register at 🔗 in bio

🎉 Great day at the joint INTO, NEU & UTU recruitment @ Ulster Uni Coleraine! 🙌 Amazing to meet so many passionate future teachers 🧑‍🏫👩‍🏫 Wishing you every success this year – UTU is here to support you 💪💙 #FutureTeachers #UnionStrong

We welcome today's clear statement from Belfast City of Sanctuary who have been building the Schools of Sanctuary initiative active in over 72 schools in NI. Such clarity can be used by @Ed_Authority & @education-ni.gov.uk‬ Pic: Jacquie White & Susan Neil, ETUG www.ictuni.org/news/educati...

🎙️ “The trust has broken down already.” – UTU Gen Sec Jacquie White on Education Minister’s plans to fine teachers £2,500 for not cooperating with inspections. She warns it will damage efforts to rebuild trust. Watch on #SundayPolitics BBCiPlayer link in bio.

At the Ulster Teachers' Union, we are committed to standing beside teachers with disabilities and mental health conditions. 💙 More info at linktr.ee/UlsterTeache...

"Acknowledging that trade unions not only have a place at the table but also make a meaningful, constructive contribution and their rights are to be strengthened is a positive development. Where unions are present and have rights, we see better outcomes" www.ictuni.org/news/unions-...

Limavady teacher to head up only NI-based teaching union Janice Mullan (58) took up office at the recent annual meeting of the Ulster Teachers’ Union annual conference. 🔗Link in bio. Copyright © Kevin Cooper Photoline NUJ 📧 [email protected]

IMPORTANT MEMBER UPDATE 📩 If you haven’t received this email, please check your junk folder first. 📬 Or contact us at ✉️ [email protected]

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We’re continuously updating our “Frequently Asked Questions” on the Revised Pay Offer – March 2025 to keep you informed. 📄💷 Check out the latest details here: 🔗 linktr.ee/UlsterTeache... #WorkingTogether #TeacherPay #RevisedPayOffer #FAQ #UlsterTeachersUnion #UnionStrong 💪

PENSION NOTICE We want to inform members of a change to the Northern Ireland Teachers’ Pension Scheme (NITPS) that has been published earlier today. The timeframe for processing retirement applications is being extended from 3 months to 4 months. Full details 🔗 linktr.ee/UlsterTeache...

Revised Pay Offer: How Does This Deal Impact on Workload?

🌍💙 Celebrating World Down Syndrome Day! 💙🌍 On March 21st, we join the global community in celebrating World Down Syndrome Day. This year’s theme, #ImproveOurSupportSystems, emphasizes the need to strengthen the structures that empower individuals with Down syndrome to thrive.

FAQ 13. I have responsibility points and require time to fulfil these roles. Under this agreement, must I do this outside the 1265 hours? No. You are being directed to fulfil these roles so must have adequate time allocated in your agreed time budget.

FAQ 12 What power do we have to hold MS to account if timelines are missed?

FAQ 11. What is in the Heads of Agreement (Annex 1) document? The ‘Heads of Agreement’ document outlines the areas of agreed work in relation to workload for Management side to complete in consultation with the trade unions.

FAQ 10 When does ASoS end? UTU would expect a gradual de-escalation of ASoS. Schools will already have in place arrangements to take members up to the end of the spring term. The ASoS will therefore be finished by the Easter break.

FAQ 9 Have there been any changes made to the agreed measures in the annex to the offer? While the annex wasn’t shared during the previous offer, they are being shared with this offer. Following consultation with unions the list of agreed measures has been expanded to reflect the issues raised.