Budget cuts

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Just wondereding what affect the budget cuts are having to your schools? I'm secondary, we've been told we have to teach an extra lesson next year, have seen an increase of cover and have been given extra classes in our gained time to cut down on supply needs. Staff morale seems to be at an all time low.

PPA covered by assembly. No staff available to cover individual classes.
Bigger classes throughout the school.
No learning support.
Hardly any TAs left. All used 1-1.
Cheapest stationery we can buy. No glue sticks at all, down to good ol PVA and spreaders. Crappy pencils.
Photocopying limits.
No trips unless they come with free transport.

The unsupported ASNs will be the end of it for me. I can cope with the rest.

We've taught an extra lesson this year, larger KS3 & 4 class sizes, and some cover.
Also, dept budgets have been cut too.
I'm secondary...

We've had department budgets cut too which has lead to less resources and copying. Obviously the whole thing worries me in terms of my teaching (and mental wellbeing) but mostly I'm worried about the education of my own children.

Not a teacher but thank you to all of you that keep going.

If you need supplies then don't be afraid to ask on local Facebook groups etc (and tell people why). I'd happily help out if I saw a post.

All specialist arts, music and mfl teaching gone. Support staff being restructured (i.e. redundancies), no more class TAs, only targeted SEND support, much needed pastoral support team shrinking. Suffering also from lack of Ed Psych time, CAMHS waiting lists etc. No subsidies for trips etc. Morale very very low all round. All our whiteboard pens have run out (partly because all supplies are now the cheapest available from the catalogues) and we have 3 weeks teaching to go. Primary.

All non-Ebacc subjects gone. No choice for options pupils. Increased timetable, little in-class support (and only 1:1), bigger classes. Classes so big in some cases (35+) that practical work is unsafe, so very few practical lessons in the likes of Science and when they happen, non-teaching teachnicians have to chip in. Support staff (HLTAs and technicians) used as cover supervisors on as much as 50% timetable. Secondary.

I've got no gluesticks, 1 pencil sharpener, no more blue paper for my dyslexic students unless i buy it myself, no whiteboard pens and no more pencils. Some kids are writing with mini pencils. I am tempted to go buy more but frankly i've spent a fortune this year .

I ran out of my laminator pouch allowance by January.

Next year i have a class of 35 and no TA. There's one TA for intervention only between 3 classes.

I have no class sets of books, let alone ipads.

Kids that ten years ago would have had 1-1 now don't. We can't get echp's because the thresholds are so high. We can't get CAMHS referrals. We can't get help, basically.

It reminds me heavily of my school days in the 80's.

Can we have the minister for education on here to ask if this is the future of state education?

I imagine we've all heavily subsidised our lessons, I know I have.
I'm art, luckily our head is very supportive of our subject, but when he retires, will the next one be?
There are PP students who I purchase materials for as we can't afford to through school, and I know they can't ask their parents.
It really is so very demoralising.
I now write sow with recycling in mind, and borrow / beg as much as I can.

Also, I really don't know whether parents are really aware of what's going on? I think if they knew the situation then surely we'd have so much more support, especially with local mp's.

Much larger class size, we've gone from 26 to 32.
No class TAs; all TAs allocated to children with SEND. Children with EHCPs being put in the same class with only one TA and any classes without children with EHCPs get either very little TA time or it's shared with other classes for interventions.
No resources so everyone is spending a fortune getting bits and pieces all the time.
Feeling like we're always asking for money, donations for the raffle, cakes for the end of term party etc from parents.