Sad day in our wonderful school today

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Lots of our support staff will be losing hours from April, which means all of our classes will receive less support.

The remaining hours have to be divided up by some sort of unnamed skill matrix.

It's awful and ultimately the children will suffer. I'm so angry that people who work so hard, come into school during the holidays, run after school clubs, go on residential trips and often work over without pay are being treated so badly.

The bloody government don't have a clue

That's really sad. Happening up and down the country sadly.

Happening to our school too and you can see the cracks.

These people give, give, give - all the time.

I'm so sad

Awful

Happened at our local primary. Dreadful atmosphere for ages. Awful.

A friend of mine was telling me that her school have just announced that all teaching assistants will be made redundant and will not be replaced in any way. Absolutely crazy as well as sad.

What?! This is all just disgraceful 

That is terrible - What will this do to teacher morale?? Already in tatters sadly.

This will likely be happening at my school too. :-(

Yes we have lost a huge amount of staff, have no librarian, less office staff and TA/lunchtime supervision. We now rely quite heavily on parent volunteers

It's horrible isn't it?! We now have half the number of qualified TAs that we had last school year. You can tell as well

I work in adult social services, pretty much the same thing is happening (budgets cut therefore each person gets less support), and we are told families and voluntary organisers will have to step up!

We have been able to keep our TA hours stable at the moment.
But there was much unrest and lighthearted (and not so lighthearted) grumbling in the staff room this week after the village council posted a job ad for a litter picker for £20k which is obviously way above what the majority of our TAs get paid, for the hard work they do.

Staff cuts but results are not allowed to dip.

That doesn't even add up. I've always said the greatest resource I have in my classroom is my TA.

I recently left my ta job due to these cuts op. It's a shame as I used to love going to work , watching the children progress and enjoy bonding with them too.

Towards the end I felt like a resource rather than a person and rarely got to do my actual job (as opposed to covering for sick staff), yet still had targets to meet and interventions to deliver. I was jaded and miserable which made me feel like I shouldn't be there anymore.

It's terribly sad that children are suffering due to these cuts , it's the most vulnerable kids that will feel it.

Write to your local mp. Sounds trite but seriously the more noise you make, the more they listen:

use postcode to find your MP

Our school still has TAs but only because they find raise for everything that is not staffing. The PTA is fab and raises tens of thousands every year for equipment. But not every school is so lucky.

I see people on here moaning about school fund contributions all the time but most schools can’t manage without it anymore.

It's so sad that it's happening everywhere.

Three of us (teachers) have offered not to take our pay rise if it will help out but our headteacher has said if we don't take the money it just goes back to central government, the school don't keep it.

Plus it's a drop in the ocean and would affect our pensions too.

Have a look at this. neu.org.uk/

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