Do you have the same teacher in Y1 as in RY or a new teacher for different subjects?

[Octavia09]

DS has one teacher in his RY. I wonder whether in Y1 he is going to have one teacher teaching everything with the help of TA(s) or different teachers teaching various subjects.

State? One teacher usually, with TA support.

It is a state school. So one teacher then.

Are you in the UK? If so, much more likely to be just one teacher. However, it's normal to have a different teacher for one morning or afternoon each week so the regular class teacher has their planning time.

Exceptions would be if there was a jobshare, if the school had a specialist teacher for a subject like music or PE (a few do) or if the school uses sets for maths.

Normally the class teacher teaches everything with the exception (in our school anyway) of music and depending on what they are doing PE.
My dd does 10 mins of speech therapy every day with one of the TA's and 20 mins a week with the senco in small group work again for speech but that is only because she is on the SEN register, children who don't have SEN work with the class teacher and TA's within the class room.
Prep and Pre-Prep schools often have a class teacher and then other specialist teachers coming in for things like maths and science as well as music and PE, but again that is dependant on the school.
British schools almost exclusively work on the class teacher for almost everything model for the primary years only having specialist subject teachers in secondary schools.

Thank you. You are very helpful. I am here in England. I often see different teachers or TAs through the Y1 window. I guess those were the TAs including one from RY.

DC's school does some literacy and numeracy "cross year" - so some areas will be taught by the "other" Y1 teacher or by a higher level TA. They also have various volunteers that come in for various sessions (usually people who are interested in pursuing a career in education whether as TA or teacher).

At our school all the chilren in the different classes within a key stage get streamed into 'classes' by ability for phonics and for maths so they often have a different teacher for these than their main class teacher.

I see now that it actually depends on a school. DS once was asking whether his RY teacher is going to teach Y1. I said "no" and he got upset so I had to ensure him that she would visit the class regularly. Scary changes for a small kid.

A friend's dd had five teachers in Y1 - two main teachers, one for PE, one for music and one for science plus two teaching assistants. The dd hated it. My DD had two teachers - plus two teaching assistants who were there each day. It was fine, but she much preferred the teacher who was there 4 days a week to the one who came in one day a week. There is lots of flexibility in teaching now, but young children much prefer one teacher I think.

Shares speakers experience. In yr1 DS had 2 job share main teachers, 2 part-time TA's, 2 part-time TA's for child with special needs but they were used for way more than that, music teacher and had yr2 teacher for split maths class three mornigns a week. So that was 8 adults not allowing for sickness cover. Remember going to parents evening before Xmas & one of the main teachers said 'I can't really comment I only see your child on Mon & Tues afternoons.

No wonder discipline was an issue

Dd's numeracy and literacy lessons are streamed so she has a different teacher for maths and literacy. She does 20 minutes a day phonics again streamed with a TA other than the class TA. A French teacher takes the class twice a week. There is a teacher for music once a week and an Art teacher once a week.The whole school does Tai Chi as well taken by leaders brought into school So out of the whole school week she spend less than half with her class teacher.It works well for dd anyway.