Male primary teachers, are they as rare as hens teeth?

[kilmuir]

just wondering. My Dd has just left primary and she had 4 male teachers out of 7 . Is that unusual?

DS had a male teacher in yrs 1 and 2 (2 different ones). He is going into yr4 in September.

Forgot to say he will have a male TA next year.

Nope, our primary has a 2 class intake, 4 male teachers, reception, yr2, yr4, yr5 and yr6.

Very unusual to have that many. Is it a large school? It is an interesting debate why primary teaching is so unappealing to men. Look at the % if male/female teachers, then look at the % of male/female heads Another interesting debate.

2 form entry here, male HT and assistant head. 5 male teachers.

Very unusual locally - know other schools with 1 male teacher in whole 2 form entry staff.

2 form entry here 4 male teachers, male HT and 6 male TA's. The male TA in dd's class is a favourite with all the children, dd says "he's like my big brother only balder"

Yes- my school is a 2 form entry with one male teacher. I'm not sure why it's so unusual to have many men. We do have quite a few male students sent to us, though. It's largely because there's a (rather unfounded) assumption that men are better at discipline and mine is an extremely 'challenging' school. The college seems to send us all their male trainees for that reason.

Depends on the school and area I guess..

Not as rare as some people think but generally not the 50% of teachers that they probably should be.

We have 5 teachers (including head), 2 are male.

About 50% of the teachers in DC's junior school are male.

DS and DD will both have male teachers next year.

My son's school is a Primary and have Male teachers in Y2, Y3, Y5 and Y6 plus a male teaching assistant and a music teacher / TA who is a man. Plus a floating temporary teacher who is male.

According to the other staff (I'm a governor) It has had a positive impact on the children. My son is to be taught by one of the male teachers next year and he is just fantastic.

Next year we will have five male teachers, two male TAs and the headteacher is male. I think this is quite unusual for the area.

2 out of 18, plus a few TAs and additional needs teachers. One of the male teachers is very shouty though and doesn't have a natural affinity with children, so a lot of parents request other classes for their DCs!

We have three class teachers, one in EYFS and two in KS1 as well as a couple if TAs, head teacher, music teacher and PE teacher.

I have experience if two if the three teachers and one TA, they are incredible. We also have a lot of incredible female teachers. We have another new one started in ks1 too. I would like to see another in KS2 maybe yr 5-6.

My dc's school has just 2 make staff members. One of them is the site manager

Male... Bloody autocorrect

My DDs primary school (2 form entry plus nursery) has no male teachers at all. It is a shame :(

Two form entry, with 3 male teachers, so 3/14. Female HT, female TAs.

2/6 years for DC1. 3/7 for DC2 (last 3). Will be 2/6 for DC3.

Know a man who trained as a primary teacher.
From his first job, he was told outright that he would be fast-tracked towards a deputy headship.
He wanted to teach so said no. Was not kept on. Has found actual teaching hard to break into.

DD is at an Infant, 7 classes not a single male teacher. She had a male trainee teacher last term whom they all adored and he w great with them. He now got a Reception class somewhere, good luck for him. Unfortunatley there was no opening in DD's school.

The attached Junior has a male head but I don't know if there are any other male teachers. I very much hope so as it is good for the children.

Between the Infant and junior school (2 FE) we have no male teachers. The junior school has a male head, but the board of governors and and local council education dept is male heavy...

There is the token groundsman across both sites

IN DS' school (not in the UK), they have a policy of balancing each year group with one male and one female teacher. Not sure what I think about this to be honest (because it must mean that when recruiting, gender is the over-riding consideration) but it does mean that ds gets a balance of genders throughout the school.