First experience of primary school since I was there myself so any advice would be appreciated 🤣
DC is due to start P1 in August (Scottish). There were set to be 2 full classes but in a last minute change, a couple of parents have decided to withdraw applications from another nearby school and instead send their children to DCs school, meaning there are too many children for 2 classes.
Things are now being reshuffled and it’s looking like there will be 2 P1 classes and a composite P2/1 class.
Composite classes themselves don’t worry me as I went to a smaller primary school myself which was composite classes the whole way through - but that’s the norm there and the teachers are very used to working that way.
This would be a new thing at DCs school - the school hasn’t had composites before and the teachers haven’t taught composite classes before.
Would you be concerned? I’m concerned that we’ve reached this point and I still can’t give DC the reassurance of what class they’ll be in or what teacher they’ll have. And I think I’m also a bit concerned that teaching composite may be a big adjustment for everyone and may be a bit of a shaken start to P1 if DC is placed in that class.