that having three teachers in P1 is a bit rubbish

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Primary 1 class (Scotland, so 4 to 5 year olds).
Ds in this class.

Children and parents met the very nice teacher at their induction days in May. All good. Since starting school last month it's become clear that the class are actually to have three teachers - main teacher on mon and fri, newly qualified teacher on tues and wed and a third teacher on a thurs. Been told this could change again.
Kids are only in mornings until end of this month.
There's been no official communication from school about this.

Some problems are coming up - there's been homework confusion(mix ups between teachers), speaking to one teacher I realised she didn't know who ds is and kids are a bit confused as to who their teacher actually is.
The other P1 class has a single teacher.

Will this work? I think it's a bit rubbish. Wouldn't have minded a job share situation with two teachers.
What d'you think? It's a loooooooong time since I was at school - tell me if this is usual before I wade in.
Thanks.

Wow, three teacher is too many IMO. I would raise it. I was dubious about even a job share but it worked as one of the teachers was the deputy head so the kids saw her a lot anyway. I think it would take a long time for the children to settle with 3 teachers.

Thanks, Hopefully. That's what I'm thinking.

That is rubbish actually, especially for P1s who tend to 'attach' more to their teacher. Job shares tend to be two more experienced teachers who have returned pt after mat leave (massively generalising here!) which means they a) know the job and b) are able to focus on communication between each other. I think communication will be really hard between three.

I would bring it up but you can't go in with all guns blazing with schools you have to ask namby-pamby questions like: how will you ensure communication is smooth between all three teachers, how will progress be tracked and shared, that sort of thing.

Thanks, Lonny - that's good advice. Will work on namby pamby line of questioning.

I think it's only fair you ask. In primary 5 I had two teachers. Teacher A taught from Mon to wed morning and teacher b taught from wed afternoon to friday. It was never a problem. I was in primary 5 so could understand it. Worth having a chat with the school and raising concerns.

We have two in our y1 and I thought that was a bit bad but one has returned mon-we'd after mat leave and the other is the dept head who does thur-fri.

We went back to school on the Wednesday so they have only met this teacher once where as dept head used to pop into reception all the time anyway.

3 does seem too much for such young children .

It isn't fair for the children to get into bother over homework and really the staff should know all their children by now.

My son has just started year 5 and he has one teacher for 2 days and another for the three, I haven't met the two day lady yet. DS is used to different teachers for different subjects - though has the same this year - so should be fine as only actually one new person to get to know.

Over the course of yr1 my DD's class had 6 different teachers with it changing every half term due to three lots of maternity leave staggered over the year. One of them was the maternity cover for another teacher who then went on maternity leave herself. These things happen, but it was a pigging mess and the kids suffered. It's also a mixed year group class (yr1/2) so even more of a challenge. She's in the same class this year and they have been given a massively experienced full time teacher and an additional teacher 3 days a week and a very experience TA on the other 2. Although there are 32 in the class which I think is unusual for KS1? But the head is aiming for stability as last year was so awful

One of mine had jobshare teachers in p1 and it honestly worked ok and the y were fab teachers but 3 is 1 to many imo it might work out ok though

Just a thought... Is the teacher who's teaching just one day (Thursday) actually a PPA teacher?

Both the main teacher and the NQT will be entitled to time out of the classroom for planning, etc and in full time teaching this usually equates to half a day. As an NQT you are also entitled to an extra half a day to deal with the additional issues of being new (meetings, training, observations, etc). So, could it be that Thursdays teacher is actually PPA cover?

Thanks for the messages.
TheHandmadeStaleBread that sounds awful. Glad it's better this year.
And awsomer, I think you're right, it's about school staffing requirements.
Still crap from the kids' point of view though. They're not getting to know any one of the teacher's very well. And vice versa.