New teacher again - how much of a problem is this?

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DD is in y2. She had 1 teacher for the whole of yR, then 3 teachers during y1. Now, for a variety of reasons, she'll end up having 3 teachers during y2 as well.

I'm concerned about the lack of continuity - and there being another new teacher to get to know, another parents evening where the teacher presumably won't know much about DD when I meet her and won't have been able to form her own opinions on her work, I guess she'll be relying on notes/marks etc from her previous teachers?

Has anyone else been through something similar? How did it work out?

I'm fed up of DD being in tears every night because she doesn't want a new teacher.

Ds is on his 7th teacher in 3 years. Continuity hasn't really been a problem, the teachers have spent some time discussing etc., and he cries when his teacher goes, but then gets on with the new fine.

DS is in yr4 and I have lost count of how many teachers he has had this school year (officially3 - but a long period of supply teachers, new one each day).

It has had a major impact on him this year but his latest teacher (been there 6 weeks) seems v good. All I can do is support him at home (emotionally and academically) and complain to the school if he gets too upset.

Thanks. We've had problems with continuity, and in particular continuity within the classroom - this term's teacher had a completely new way of doing things and has set the classroom up "her way". Which is fine, of course, but the children took a couple of weeks to get used to it, and the teacher for next term is an internal move (which I guess shows the school are conscious of the upheaval this cohort have had) so is likely to go back to the "school way" of doing things.

There are a few "characters" in the class too, which resulted in 8 kids being sent to the head for disruptive behaviour at the start of this term, and I would rather the class didn't go through that again either.

Oh well, fingers crossed and we'll keep supporting at home I guess. I don't know that there's anything we can complain about as such, it's not the school's fault that a teacher is on long term sick, another accepted the job and only stayed for 2 days before walking away, and so on...

I would be concerned about why this is happening so often

Thanks Mrz - I'm not too concerned tbh. Year 1 was caused by a job share breaking down/being unsuccessful, and the school took steps to fix it. This year, the normal teacher went on long term sick following a diagnosis that was shared with parents in the autumn term, they got a supply teacher to cover this term but she isn't staying for the summer term (us parents would like her to for preference).

Good

Sounds like a case of a run of bad luck but also sounds like the school is dealing with it as best they can. I imagine that will put a very 'safe' person on this class next year to ensure no further disruption.