Are there any teachers that can tell me if this is legal?

[nappyaddict]

DS' teacher has been off all this week. He is in a MLD school and the class is usually run with 1 teacher and 3 TAs. This week there has been the 3 usual TAs, 1 extra TA and the Y1 teacher from next door popping in from time to time, with DS' class being led by one of the TAs that is the most experienced. The Reception and Y1 classrooms are not open plan or anything, they are completely seperate rooms.

They may be qualified as HLTA but not employed as them. There was 6-7 qualified HLTAs in my old school but only one working as one.

Is your son in reception then? Don't they mostly play in reception? Does it really matter?

While they are just playing they learn to read and write, do calculations, solve problems, carry out investigation, learn to get along with others, follow rules (and why they need to) dance, sing, paint, make, compose, tell stories, imagine, develop and extend vocabulary ...

MrsButler - if you have a 5 yr old surely you must know that they do a little more than play

Well his teacher came back yesterday, so while the TA has been doing more than 3 days cover I think it is a grey area because there was a gap in between on Thursday and then obviously Friday and Saturday.