How many in your childs class?

[MrYamamoto]

and whay year are they in...

DD1 - Year 4 - 30
DS1 - Year 2 - 28
DD2 - Reception - 14

and meant to say how many teacher/assistants per class?

DD - Year 3 - 17 (but class is year 2 and 3,this is a C of E village school))
DSD - Year 3 - 7 (private)

Oh, one teacher and 1 assistant in DD and 1 teacher for DSD

dd, yr 2 - 28
ds, recep - 30

Oh right -

DD1 - Teacher plus TA
DS1 - Teacher plus TA that she shares with the other Year 2 class.

DD2 - Teacher plus TA (Plus me on Monday pm, Tuesday am and pm, and Thursday am )

P1/P2 class combined - 17 kids (9 P1)
1 teacher and one (part-time?) teaching assistant

Ds1 - Reception - 25 children and 1 teacher. The number of assistants varies but usually 2 or 3 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. Ds1 doesn't have 1:1 support but he does have extra funding which helps to pay for an assistant in the mornings.

Reception - 14 children, 1 full time teacher and assistant. Year 2 16 children - 1 full time teacher and 1 part time assistant. (This is a private school).

DS1 YR2 - 30
1 teacher and occasional TA

DS CLASS 5

26 CHILDREN

1 TEACHER + 1 TEACHING ASSISTANT

C of E PRIMARY.

ds year 1 (although in split year 1/year 2 class)

27 kids

1 teacher and 1 T.A.

Why the question?

State school
DS1 in yr 1: 30 children per class + teaching asst there nearly all the time.
DS2 in yr 3: 30 children per class, no TA. But for lit and numeracy hour every day 10 children are taken out in two groups with support staff. So the teacher just has 15, iyswim.

In addition school has lots of extra support staff, so there is another 'floating' assistant in yr1&2 (4 classes), there is usually a student in every KS1 class all the time, there are other specialist teachers, so for all lessons in IT, dance, and music the teacher is 'assisting' whilst a specialist is teaching.

Our school is a big school, always oversubscribed, therefore full: 2 classes per yr, 30 children in the class. But as a result budgetting is fairly easy, and they can afford to employ lots of extra staff, which balances against the disadvantage of larger class sizes.

Also - we only have 30 per class right through KS2. I know of some other schools with up to 36 per class in juniors.

DS1 - 20? I think. 1 teacher (Yr2)

DS2 - 17, Teacher and a TA shared with other Reception class. The two classes have a connecting door that is always open and Mrs P wanders from one to the other.

dd - year 1 - 11 children
1 teacher and 1 TA + 1 teacher for PE
(private)

DS1 - Year 1, 30 children, 1 teacher, 1 classroom assistant, 2 Special Needs assistants (all full time) - large inner city primary

Me - Year 6, 30 children, 1 teacher, 1 booster teacher (me, part-time), 1 full-time classroom assistant (and 5 children spend their mornings out of class in a learning unit attached to the school) - small inner city primary
plus
specialist music, drama, art and p.e. teachers in the afternoon

Interesting. Nobody seems to have come up with the scenarios at our nearest school (for reception): 60 with 2 teachers and 1 t/a.

Anyone got any experience of this type of setup. Am not entirely happy with it myself (although don't need to apply for ds until this time next year), but don't really have any evidence to back that up.

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Son is 5 -15 in class 1 teacher 1 full time assistant,couple of diff teachers for music/pe(private)
One mum i met has moved her daughter from local village school as it has become a monster of its own success.I think there were 3 teachers and small class sizes now it has ot too big.
They have 2/3 teacher schools in Ireland.Our son went for abit.Can work if class sizes small but i am not sure how it could work even with really motivated staff etc if it gets too big.

i'm not sure what area your from but here in the us.. second grade class
my son is special needs in a regular ed class.
the class size is 21 kids to 1 teacher and a 1 classrom assistant. my child also has a shadow aide.

Yorkiegirl - it's partly what I'm hearing from some of the other parents that concerns me. Seems that there is usually a small group of 5 or 6 who need the most help who get one person, another varying group of 10 or so at a time might work in a smaller group with the t/a, and the remaining 45 stay with the other teacher. Technically the ratios are within the limits, but 45 4 year olds in a group sounds too many to me. I'm just curious if anyone has any positive experiences of this type of setup, because I've not come across it before.