Do state schools require a qualified teacher for each class?

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Yes.

yes but I think perhaps private schools do not.

Unless by State Schools you mean academies or Free Schools, yes.

Like private schools Academies and Free Schools are able to choose to employ unqualified teachers. I think.

Thought so.

But in reception, I thought an EYFS professional would do, rather than having to be a teacher?

The general answer is yes, but there are circumstances where it might not be a qualified school teacher for a period fo time.
Are you talking about permanent teacher in class or a short term situation or one lesson ?

Permanent.

tell us what's happened....

Just heard a rumour that a teacher was not qualified. Think its probably false.

As far as I know, teachers qualified in Non-European countries, eg Australia, count as not qualified and are allowed to teach here for a couple of years before they need to have QTS here. And teachers in their training, NQTS, GTPs are not qualified yet, but have a mentor and will have the qualification by the end of the year. Not sure if that helps?

No, rocketty - in Reception there must a qualified teacher with QTS.

Also, my mum apparently works with a couple of teachers who are now nearing retirement age, having entered the profession before the requirement for all teachers to have a teaching qualification. So if it's a reasonably old teacher, they could be unqualified, but still extremely experienced.

They would be qualified, pinkgirlythoughts - but they might not have a degree, but a Certificate in Education instead.

No.

They can have trainees, but only those from recognised training programmes (like Teach First - where they get 6 weeks, I think, before being released into the classroom).

I don't know if it would have to be a certificate in education, necessarily- my exDP's mum used to work as a teacher with an art degree, but no specific teaching qualification. She's young enough to still be working now, if she hadn't stopped to have her children.

In a state school -yes ,but not in a private school.