NQT for next year - should we expect to have to help out our DS?

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Hi. We have been allocated a newly qualified teacher for next year (Y1) who seems nice, but presumably will have a lot to learn. What (if anything) can we do to lend DS a hand?

As long as they have good support hopefully they will stay - our NQTs left half way through the year.

Dd had an NQT for year 1 and whilst he was lovely it did feel like he had a lot of time off. In addition to their normal ppi time (think it's about half day) he also got extra time off for being an NQT (at least another half a day maybe more) but also another afternoon off because it's a catholic school and he had to attend some sort of weekly catholic training course so in fact I'm sure he only taught for 3 days maybe 3.5 max of of the 5. It was fine though and dd did well but I know some mums (especially those with older children) were concerned.

The best teacher my dd had was an NQT.
Give the teacher a chance