Keeping Up!

Keeping up with a blog is very hard. I started this strand with the best intentions of updating and adding to my news on a daily basis, which quickly became at least once a week and now has become when I remember. Quite a shocking state of affairs really. The trouble is there are so many different things going on at once during the school day that it is hard to know what to focus upon.

Over the next few weeks we are going to be settling upon the organisation of classes and teachers for the next academic year. Our pupil numbers are a little fluid so we don't have steady groups of 30 or 60 to divide neatly into classes according to the government guidance. We have very peculaira numbers as we are able to admit up to 60 per year group. So we have 42 in reception next year - a nice number giving two small classes of 22. In Year 1 however at the moment we have 36 - we can't have one class as it is far too big and can't afford to have two classes either. So what do we do? In Year 2 next year there will be 34 children - too big for one class and too small for 2. What do we do? Well we sound out opinions and do the best that we can for the majority of the children that we have in the school. Probably we are going to have to mix age groups again - not the best or most popular solution but the most practical.

Then there is the allocation of teachers to classes.....watch this space for further details of that!!