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Whether trip to school in Gambia undertaken with approval of head teacher for purposes connected with the school was undertaken in the course of the teacher�s employment, as defined in a collective agreement incorporated into her contract of employment, for the purpose of determining entitlement to full pay during absence caused by sickness contracted at the Gambian school.
The Claimant was a Year 3 teacher at the Coleraine Park Primary School.� She began work there on 1 September 2009.� Her personal conditions of service incorporated the �Burgundy Book�, which contained provision for what would happen to a teacher in the event that they sustained injury or became ill during the course of their employment.
Quite independently of this, the Claimant took a holiday in Gambia at Christmas time in 2009.� She visited a local school there.� On her return in January 2010, she found out, apparently for the first time, about the school�s intention to bid for British Council accreditation and suggested to Mr Hsiao that the school at which both taught should be linked with the school that she had visited in Gambia.� Mr Hsiao said yes, but the Claimant was to check with the acting head, Mr Tedscoe.
Going back to the chronology, the Claimant made the trip; she spent two sessions at the school, one of two hours and one of three hours.� She met and was in close contact with many children.� She was virtually mobbed on arrival.� She spent time in class sitting close to children and reading to them in groups.� She took the material that her class had produced, together with some books donated from the school library, and although the Tribunal does not so find it seems implicit that she must have brought back material form the school as well.
10.1 When the approved medical practitioner attests that there is evidence to show a reasonable probability that an absence was due to an infectious or contagious illness contracted directly in the course of the teacher�s employment full pay shall be allowed for such period of absence as may be authorised by the approved medical practitioner as being due to the illness [�].�
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