My DD just started reception last month. We were told that she would be taught by one teacher three days a week and the headteacher two days a week, with a nursery nurse supporting the teachers five days a week. We’ve now been told, however, that the headteacher will no longer be teaching the class - on the two days she used to teach, the class will be taught by a teacher (who used to work for the school) in the mornings and she will be focussing on PE. In the afternoons of those two days, they will be taught by the nursery nurse and a teaching assistant.
I’m concerned that the class are not going to have a teacher at all times, but I don’t know whether this is normal in other schools? Are there any guidelines about staffing that schools have to follow? The school are saying that it is fine and normal, but then I wonder why they didn’t make this arrangement in the first place if not having a teacher at all times really doesn’t matter?