Only has yr 2 teacher 3 days a week

[clare40]

Our dd teacher next year will only do a 3 day week in the classroom, and then two seperate teachers will do the the other two days. I am not very happy with this as I feel it leads to inconsistencies with teaching. Has anyone else got this? Is this usual? How would you feel?

I have done this as a teacher. Done well, you get the stengths and enthusiasms of three teachers, rather than just one - we have teachers who are very musical/artistic/sporty/speak French, etc. We do a lot of liaising, reporting and discussing about the children. Try it before you start worrying about it!

dd1 had this in year 3 last year and was shared between 2 teachers.It is not an ideal situation because as you said ,inconsistencies do occur with homework tasks etc.We were glad when she went up to year 4.

So she will have three teachers job sharing the class? Have school said why?

Two yes - very normal these days, but tbh I also would not be happy with three different teachers, not in infants.

Not heard of this - but do know that jobshares of 2 teachers 3/2 days per week have worked very well in our Y4. dd will have 3/2 days each teachers in Y3 next term...but I think I would worry a bit about 3 teachers, tbh.

3 teachers could be 2 teachers doing the class and someone else covering ppa time, so not that rare.

we currently have a job share for year 3 with 2 teachers. Seems to work ok, they take different topics each (hand writing, spellings, ICT, RE, shapes, fractions etc etc) so they know how the class and individuals are doing for their specific topics rather than having to rely on telling each other everything. Mostly works well I think.

There is the odd time when say the teacher from the start of the week does not know about actvities planned for the second half and this can be a little frustrating but on the whole I would not say its had a negative impact and would agree it can have advantages of different skills, personalities etc

3 teachers of course is a further step, I dont see that there is any harm with asking how they will manage it to give you assurance that what they have planned will work.

Have they done this before?

We have a meeting next week to find out the full details, but I am not happy. From other parents I understand that one is a fully qualified teacher, and the other is a teaching assistant.

ds had two teachers for a couple of years (Yr3/4) and it worked pretty well. His main teacher was the deputy head, so she was in school all the time, and then he had a part time teacher for the other two days. As his main teacher was at school all the time there weren't really any continuity issues.

I would be asking lots of questions about how this was going to be managed.

It works if they are similar and plan well. They should all be qualified teachers!

Three sounds a lot. My friend's dd had this, and found it really tricky especially since she also had special teachers for music and PE. It's unacceptable to have a TA taking a class for a full day each week, surely.

My child's class had 3 teachers towards the end of this term. It has been a massive nightmare with no progress being made and the different styles of teaching and discipline being used. We were told that this wouldn't be a problem and notes would be passed about the children between teachers, clearly this hasn't happened. The report for end of term for my dc speaks volumes as you can tell they really don't know my child, lots of generic lines copied and pasted.

It sounds to me like a job share between the two teachers, then PPA time is covered by the TA. All teachers are entailed to 10% planning, preparation and assessment time, which they will also hopefully be using to liaise. The TA will probably be working from something that the teachers have planned.
I would want more information before I got too wound up.