Our youngest daughter is nearing the end of her NQT year which she expects to pass and has spent the year teaching Yr 1 in a primary school. She was expecting to stay in Yr 1 for the coming year.
The school has cocked-up the recruitment process for replacement teachers from September and have massive gaps in KS2 staff.Our daughter has been given the ultimatum of volunteering to move to year 5 or being told to take the job.
She has concerns that the other teachers in Yr 5 will be a newly appointed year leader who only works 2 days a week, who she does not get on with, and a new NQT and expects to dumped with supervising the NQT and being the de-facto year leader for 3 days a week. She has self-confidence but not the arrogance to assume that she will be able to cope.
She's also concerned that if she leaves Yr 1 they will be left with an NQT and an experienced teacher who is pregnant and will leave just before Christmas, which means the children will then have an NQT and supply teacher (without casting aspertions on supply teachers).
She accepts that the school can put her into any position but the way it was handled by the deputy head has really annoyed her and she has been told that she has to give her answer tomorrow.
I believe she's in a union, NUT(?), would it be worth her contacting them or does anyone have any suggestions on what they might do in a similar situation?
She also has no intention of staying at the school after the end on of the 2009-10 year.
Thanks
PS: Sorry to have rambled on so much.
