Year 6 job share but both teachers only do Monday-Weds

[Purpleandgreenyarn]

Hello
would like to keep details vague for obvious reasons so please bare with me.
My DS is in yr 6. Always loved school, always thrived in a very clear, positive environment, particularly enjoys creative writing and art.

This year, their new teachers are two ladies who have just come back from mat leave and are on a job share. All very understandable and not a problem. I, wrongly, assumed the job share would be something like Monday-Weds am, and then they swap, and the other one does Weds pm-Friday.
But it isn’t, they both work Monday-Weds. So for Thursdays & Fridays they don’t have an available teacher in the building. Presumably the head, has therefore arranged for four members of the senior management team to teach. They have four lessons a day, so each of these four members of staff have two lessons each. (Hope that makes sense, sorry!)

I wasn’t thrilled about this, as it takes the weekly teacher total up to 6, but thought it would probably only be a short term solution and DS didn’t seem to bat an eyelid so I tried to not show my concern.

Today, on the way to school, DS was really not themselves. His younger sister (also in the school) was chatting away and DS was really quite nasty, we had a chat, and it seems one of the senior members of staff that takes them on a Thursday for two lessons, has been rather harsh with the whole class, but DS felt, the boys in particular. DS recalls a really sad moment last week, where he had his Art work taken from him, held up in front of the class, and told his design is weak and not creative. DS, started to cry when telling me this. I feel like I could cry typing this. He was so humiliated and is so disheartened.
I’ve emailed the head and requested a meeting, no reply so far. Before I do speak to the school, I feel like I could do with another parent or teachers perspective, hence posting here.
I feel both angry and devastated that my child, who has always loved school and has never once been hesitant to walk through the school gates, let alone cry, is having this experience in their final primary school year.

any advice is great fully received

This is farcical. It sounds as though someone messed up and accidentally told both returning teachers that they could do Mon-Wed.

This can't go on for a whole year. It's not in anyone's interests (and I speak as a teacher). Year 6 is an important year, and having six teachers in that year is nothing like having six teachers each teaching different subjects, at secondary school. The coordination to teach important subjects that are taught every day, such as maths, is barely possible if, say, four teachers are teaching the same subject to the same class.

I job shared the classic Mon-Wed/Wed-Fri and even that took a lot of very careful thought, communication, and record keeping, to ensure that I and my partner teacher weren't repeating or omitting anything, and to make sure that behaviour management, consequences, rewards etc were carried out and the general pupil knowledge communicated.

This whole plan is making my head spin. It's ludicrous.

Thank you for your perspective.

To be clear, I don’t think this make do solution is working for anyone and after hearing about today’s events, it’s evident the teachers are very stressed, and the children are well aware of their frustrations.

Better than no teachers.

Teacher here and this makes no sense! If they are taking it in turns then they are having three days to plan as a year group? Is it one form entry? When I was part-time I did half the week and my job share did the other half. Yr 6 need stability not a mix of teachers

I can see how they can do this sort of planning to cover once a week lessons like Art, Drama, History, RE, PE, MFL etc, with different teachers, which is in fact what many parents happily pay for in private school, though whether there are enough of those specialities to cover two days is a moot point, but core subjects like English , Maths and to some extent Science need continuity and daily lessons to consolidate learning and build on knowledge and for that you need one teacher who is keeping close track of the learning that is taking place and tweaking plans as required