By now, you should all have received your child’s annual school report and are no doubt beginning to wonder how the school is to be organised in the next school year and whose class your child will be in. In the Review of the School Year 2005 – 2006 which we sent out recently, I indicated that the school has faced some serious funding difficulties, which we are just beginning to emerge from. These are still affecting us and have an impact on the number of teachers and support staff that we can afford to employ for the next school year.
We will need 4 classes in school throughout the next school year unless our numbers change unexpectedly and take us over the statutory class size limit, as happened last January. I have consulted with teaching staff, support staff and governors and discussed how the school might be organised. We have agreed on the plan which causes least disruption to the children during the year.
Class 1 will be taught by Mrs Kenworthy.
Class 1 will have 28 children, 12 from Year 1 and 16 from Year 2.
Class 2 will be taught by Mrs Green.
Class 2 will have 28 children, 12 from Year 1 and 16 from Year 2.
Class 3 will be taught by Miss Wood.
Class 3 will have 19 Year 1 children from September to December. A small number of Reception children will join this class in January.
Mrs Thornton (many of you know her as Tina, from Playgroup) will also spend a significant part of the year working and teaching in Class 3. From September she will be training here as part of the Graduate Teacher Programme.
Class 5 (Reception) will be taught by a new teacher.
The advertisement for this post closes on Friday 30th June. I will let you know as soon as we make an appointment.
Class 5 will consist of all the September entrants. Some of these children will move to Class 3 in January when the January entrants join the class.
Mrs Turner and Miss Sykes will continue to work in Nursery.
If you have any concerns about the placing of your child for next year please feel free to contact me.
