To email headteacher about this

If he’s doing brilliantly I don’t see the problem. Also the head will be VERY aware but there isn’t really anything she could do. I would see the email as pointless as it won’t achieve anything and if I was the headteacher I would roll my eyes- thankless job!

YANBU
Of course pregnancy/illness can’t be foreseen but even starting the year with two teachers on a job share is not ideal. If parents don’t say anything how would the head know that they are/aren’t happy about it?
It also means that if next year your child has again the job share teachers when the other
class only has the one, the school can’t say « you should have told us before, too late now » when you complain.

Pretty sure they are fully aware of the issue and not sat waiting for some parent to email them with advice 🤣

The headteacher isn’t stupid, why do you think you need to tell them
how to do their job? Plus he could allocate your DC to a class with what appears to be an extremely stable teacher only to find that they resign 2 weeks into the term, the LSA gets ill, the normal supply teacher resigns and then the recruited replacement doesn’t fit in with the school and also leaves. This happens, and what would you expect the head to do about it? The teaching profession is in crisis and it’s almost impossible to recruit and retain quality teachers in most schools.

Youd be much better off supporting the school on the parent fund raising team or as a governor if you’re so concerned than just trying to get him to favour your own child.

Surely they would have a different teacher anyway in yr 2? Also who to say that another teacher wont have similar issues,if heaven forbid became ill or a family issue arose .Shall we all have Robot Teachers? Just relax OP, your LO sounds a bright little chap and he will do well. As he gets older there will be other challenges ,Class behaviour in secondary school, Teachers changing over and so on .My own DS had all of these issues and now has a Masters degree in Physics from a RG uni! I am sure your son will be similar!Just relax and enjoy his childhood ,it goes by so quickly!

Apparently I was wrong. OP taking advice and following it within a few posts hasn't ruined this thread for anyone. Because the majority have ignored that and continued berating her anyway.

You'll be glad to hear that you won't have to have on your membership after all @schoolgrinch

RTFT people!!! Op has clearly said she won't be sending it.

Op I actually understand your thinking and good on you for posting here and taking advice.

Don't. Just don't.

The other classes teacher could suddenly become ill and there be a scramble to cover the class.

At least these changes have been planned.

That’s a bit overdramatic to call it 4 teachers! Implies a lack of continuity.

But for about 80% of the year, they had 2 of those teachers at the same time, not consecutively. So not disruptive at all. Then a short term teacher who is already someone they’ve seen around the school - so good continuity - before settling with a new one. They’ll be fine - it’s exciting for children to have someone new, and for a small change like this, quite good for them to get new teaching styles.

Seems normal in our school anyway. There is no longer one teacher for one year group and you keep them the whole year.

What on earth do you think the head can do differently next year? Quiz the teachers about their plans to get pregnant or only employ ones who've gone though the menopause? Teachers can go off sick, take mat leave etc at any point. The head doesn't have any control over that. It would be classed as discrimination if she asked if any teachers were planning mat leave before allocating them to a class....Would it be OK for your employer to ask if your planning any babies before allocating projects for example?

Class X have had quite considerable disruption this year,

They have not had considerable disruption. They have consistently had the same two teachers, one is going on maternity leave and someone else is doing two weeks, which I assume is also part time.

Then they will continue with one of their two teachers and a different teacher.

If they had a full time teacher then they would have had more disruption.

I am sure the head would love some advice from you on how to do their job!!
How selfish of those teachers to start a family🤣

also, there are no available teachers - I was off for a year, no one qualified in my subject could be found

I teach a level and once had a serious illness and missed the last 4 weeks before their exams. I have the temerity to teach in a private school too.

Teachers are human wherever you go.

Obviously the head will be considering stability of staff when planning next years teaching, however there are other factors too. If you think your head isn’t bright enough to work this out for herself you have bigger problems. Also it can never be foolproof the head cannot predict now which of her 6 teachers of childbearing age might announce a pregnancy in September 😂 or who might get cancer, or whose spouse will die unexpectedly etc etc…

Teachers who work in private schools get pregnant too...it is allowed.

5 teachers in year 4 and year 5 at dd's private school. I can't really blame the school as it's due to serious illnesses that couldn't have been foreseen but it's still not great.

Post of the year that one

The HT knows how to allocate staff. Focus on your own job and stop being completely ridiculous.

What?

I'm afraid you're going to have to be stripped of your Mumsnet membership. How dare you listen to advice and make the right decision based on it (and so quickly) in AIBU?

You've ruined this thread for everyone.

Meh, I had two years of supply teachers could of been a new teacher every week for two years. I'm ok lived through it I'm not scarred from it.

I can understand why you'd want to bring it up, but they'll be doing the best they can. Kinda bizarre that they've had two teachers the whole year, but I'm sure it's okay for the kids.

If it helps, I had seven teachers in Y5. We all turned out okay 😆

Don't worry. The numbers leaving teaching means your child will spend much of secondary school sitting in the school hall doing work set by the Head of Department. Four teachers will seem like an impossible dream.
I blame teacher recruitment and retention on MN. There are so so many smug boasts from work from home mums, and boasty posts from flexi working mums. 71% of NHS and education posts are held by women. Why should they do all the work when they are not entitled to the most basic rights like going to the loo when they want when posters on here whinge about going into the office one day a week.
It's time things changed and things are already changing and not for the better. Some posters on here seem determined to personally chase away teachers from schools.