Help!!! I'm going to spontaneosly Combust!!!! and I can';t see the headteacher till monday!!

[Upsadaisy]

I've just taken my 5 yearold who is 6 next week to a party with him classmates. I found out of a couple of parents that when they go back on Monday they are joining the children who should be going into year 3 with the my sons class who should be going into year 2. The class size will be about 42.
The letter that was sent only a day before the school was due to close for holidays and the headmaster just dismissed the concerns of those that voiced them!

Today there was a few of us who hadn't even received a letter. How can a school join two different age groups together like that without holding a meeting to reassure parents?
Isn't there a class number restriction surely 42 is far too many?

I take the points made by teachers on this thread that the staff are experienced professionals who put a lot of effort into this sort of thing.

For me, the main problem would be the lack of communication. A letter sent towards to end of last term, to all affected parents, would probably have saved a lot of worry and bad-feeling.

My DS was in a mixed YR1/YR2 last year. Apparently it was the most able yr1s and the less able yr2s. DS had no problems academically but socially we had a couple of problems. One of the older boys took a shine to DS and became very possessive. DS lost a lot of friends because of this possessiveness and he didn't seem able to say no to older boy.

This yr the teacher is keeping all old Yr1s (now yr2) and mixing them with the more able yr1s. I have no idea how this will work as the gap between the kid will be greater academically. At least the teacher knows him well and hopefully this will mean not too much going over the same stuff.

So - did you get it sorted out in the end Upsadaisy?