How many in your childs class?

[MrYamamoto]

and whay year are they in...

dd has 11 in yr 3 class (only one class per year) with form teacher. Specialist teachers for PE, RE,literacy, ICT and science, music, drama, French. Private.

ds has 30 in his class (yr3) but last year dd had only 23 (yr6)

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Can 30 5 year old be 'taught' by 1 teacher? Perhaps if they were mostly girls, but what if there are more boys?

Is 20 a better target or is this too high?.

How many were in your class at primary?

DS, Reception, 26. Teacher + one TA.... except that they mix with another reception class, which has 27 pupils, one teacher, one TA. So you could say DS is in a class of 53, with 2 teachers, 2 classrooms & 2 TAs.
The school he was signed up for, in an expensive housing area, had 2 reception classes, but only about 45 pupils total.

Private

yr 1 - 12 children one teacher

yr 5 - 9 children one teacher

Ds1 doesn't start school till next Sept but I know that the intake is 75 so 2 classes of 30 and then another that joins the eldest 15 with the youngest 15 of the year above. Something like that anyway.

I think each class has 1 teacher and 1 TA at least.

On paper it sounds like too many in a class to me, but based on AGG, this school ranks 7th out of the 70 in the borough. It's always been a fantastic school, (even since I was in infants!) and in the Ofsted reports it's average grades for English, Maths and Science are A*/A. They must be doing something right!!

It's extremely popular and people move into the area to get their kids in.

I'm not stressing!

Year 1, 20 children, 1 teacher, one classroom assistant, with a max of 25 in a class.

Kindergarten (like pre-reception!), 20 children, 1 teacher, 2 classroom assistants plus another classroom assistant who helps out a couple of days a week. 20 is max allowed in class.

17 - foundation stage (mix of reception and nursery)

Yamamoto, I think 30 'average' 5-yr-olds can be taught by one teacher (+TA); but you do need dynamic teaching. And what you do need as well is excellent back-up support, and additional resources for the 'non-average' children. Children who are struggling to keep up need a lot of support, and particularly able children can easily take up a lot of the teacher's time and resources as well. Also mixed-age classes are much more tricky, and IMO need smaller class sizes.

Numbers is not the be all and end all. We could have sent our kids to several nearby schools, with good reputations, where class sizes are closer to 20 than 30, but I think they get a better deal all round where they are.

What class sizes do your children have?

PS Did you go to Acorn Bank today? We were gobsmacked how many people were there!

Primary 3, which I think is the Scottish Equivalent of your Year 2.

28 or 29 children and 1 teacher. I don't think dd has mentioned a teaching assistant this year(trying to rack my brains but no can't remember her mentioning one) although there were teaching assistants in Primary 1 and 2. Plus Student teachers on and off throughout the year.

there are 30 children in my dd`s class (year one) & there is 1 teacher & 1 teaching assistant (fulltime i think)

Dd2, one of three P4 pupils, in a class of 12 pupils ranging in age from 5-9. One teacher, two class room assistants, specialists for PE, music, IT, art and science.

min 8 max 12

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ds
pre nursery class of 4 2 carers and im over the moon about it!

roisin,
Hi, yes we went to Acorn bank! Did you enjoy it?
The fairground organ thay you passed on the way in is stored in the barn behind our our house, and he 'tests' every song 2 or 3 times before a 'gig'!! Just love those morris dancers

Would agree numbers are far less important than teaching ability, but any teacher is going to hard pressed with 30 children and a high % of boys in reception class... And can you have too few in a class? Oh dd1 15x yr2 and ds1 20x yr1 no assistants but help with reading.

Yes, we all enjoyed it. It was further/took longer than we anticipated, but it was fun. The boys loved the apple tasting, then discovered toffee apples ... Yuck Punch and Judy was a huge hit of course. (I wasn't expecting it to be quite so busy, or quite so muddy though.)

We also bumped into some old friends we rarely see, which was great.