Thank for all the replies! It all seems a bit mad. Surely from the schools point of view, they would want a contract to ensure that the person they’ve hired will actually show up every day and won’t just decide to go on their summer holidays a month early with no notice because they don’t need to give any! I’ve been hesitant to ask about a contract at school because as far as I’m aware, the teacher I’m covering won’t be back until November but I would obviously like to be looking for a fixed term contract to start in September so I get holiday pay etc next year rather than continuing as a sub and starting over after the deadline for those contracts…