Nursery class with no teacher?

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Anyone had any experience of this? My Dn ( who lives with us) starts nursery this week and her class don't have a teacher, just a nursery nurse ( who is also a HLTA).

I work wth children and all out classes have a teacher, I have asked a few people at school and everyone seems to think this is odd ( although this school is in a different county).

I've tried to do some research but is all a bit unclear... Should the class have a teacher? I've queried it with the school and they said the class is 'over seen' by the reception teacher. But she never actually works with them.

Just wanted to check what the guidelines were and whether this is usual practice or if this school is doing something different.

My 2 went to a different school before we moved so never went through this nursery.

Thanks for any info :)

Home visit tomorrow!! Hope it goes okay! Making me nervous, I've been cleaning like mad tonight

Edinburgh Council have been replacing teachers with Early Years workers who are Nursery Nurses who have done the PDA or senior workers who have done their BA in early childhood studies.

There has to be one teacher on site who will give guidance to the EYW. But this can be the depute head. It's working in some places where teams work well together but in others it's not working as well as teachers did everything and NN were the lower beings.

There is no difference to how the Curriculum is delivered as the team work is still there.