Use of unqualified staff

Waiting for an internal review by Talycopa Primary School, Swansea of their handling of this request.

Dear Talycopa Primary School, Swansea,

Please could you supply the following information-

For the week beginning December 4th 2017. The total number of lessons taught in the school for those five school days.

The total number of lessons where a qualified teacher was not present and unqualified staff were there during the lesson i.e., cover supervisors, teaching assistants. Please note this should NOT include any lessons taken by students on a teacher training course.

Yours faithfully,

Richard Knights

Talycopa Primary School, Swansea

Dear Mr. Knights,

Please find below the information that you requested in your email of
13/12/17.

 

Talycopa Primary School

Response to FOI unqualified staff request by Richard Knights – 13/12/17

For the week beginning December 4th 2017. The total number of lessons
taught in the school for those five school days.

 

Out of a possible 196 lessons, 191 lessons were taught at the school. The
5 lessons not taught at the school that week were due to the following
reasons:

o 2 off site swimming lessons where children were taught by a mixture of
specialist swimming teachers and their classteacher in smaller groups.
o 3 lessons where the class were out on the ‘Crucial Crew’ trip with
their class teacher.

 

 

The total number of lessons where a qualified teacher was not present and
unqualified staff were there during the lesson i.e., cover supervisors,
teaching assistants. Please note this should NOT include any lessons taken
by students on a teacher training course.

 

No lessons were covered by unqualified staff.  All staff are qualified in
the role they are deployed.

No students were in school on a training course

 

 

Kind regards,

Rebecca Knight

Headteacher

 

Dear Talycopa Primary School, Swansea,

Of the 191 lessons on site were they all covered by staff with QTS?

Yours faithfully,

Richard Knights

Dear Talycopa Primary School, Swansea,

My original request was-

Please could you supply the following information-

For the week beginning December 4th 2017. The total number of lessons taught in the school for those five school days.

The total number of lessons where a qualified teacher was not present and unqualified staff were there during the lesson i.e., cover supervisors, teaching assistants. Please note this should NOT include any lessons taken by students on a teacher training course.

If this would be difficult please could you supply the same information for the week beginning January 15th.

Please note it is a legal requirement to respond to Freedom of Information requests.

Yours faithfully,

Richard Knights