Professionalism within a Primary School: Synopsis 1 12 2023

This is a 25 item synopsis. For a 13 item synopsis it is here.

You may have arrived here after looking for an educational website. This one concerns lack of professionalism within a primary school in England.
It is entirely anonymous so that anyone connected to the school and is not part of the story is free from anything negative.
This website is an account of a primary school reaching out to its local community for volunteers.
The website is anonymous in order to protect its standing with its community.
The main problem described arose mainly due to not having enough classoom accomodation for anyone offering more than help with reading.
A further problem arose once this volunteer had started. It centred on the Board of Governors not fulfilling its responsibility at law to provide volunteers with safeguarding training.
It should have checked that the Head Teacher - HT - had carried out safeguarding training for all staff with any form of contact with pupils.
The Board of Governors - BoG - appealed to residents in April 2022 to volunteer their time and expertise to help in the current time of need.
On 12 July 2023, the Head Teacher - HT - and I discussed the situation. I offered to help with science teaching. HT suggested the formation of a Science Club.
I said that I could attend once per fortnight for 40-minute sessions.
The last week of the Summer Term was devoted to a Science Week and I was able to start acclimatising.
Pupils in groups had chosen a science topic and enjoyed showing visitors what they had learned.
During the summer vacation I prepared a lot of teaching aids including a portable train track - 4ft square.
I attended after school on 8 September to look at resources.
The first session on 20 September went well. However, the security checks had not finished and the Science Teacher - ST - sat in a corner.
In the normal situation, the host - ST - would thank the visitor - V - and make comment. Nothing.
Two weeks later I was put in the Resource Centre. It is a corridor for the playground and a fire escape route.
The session was unsuccesful (understatement) due to pupils rushing through to the playground.
Pupils who (established later) were in the leaver group remarked that they wanted to use the train track and be members of the club.
I arrived for the third session on 18 October when no pupils attended. ST arrived later to say she had sent me an email saying everything was cancelled. I replied that I had not seen it due to loading the car.
I asked ST what was I supposed to do with the train set. Actually, it was the second set and more portable.
HT and I discussed the situation at 0800 on 20 October when I pointed out that she knew at the first discussion that there was a timetabling crisis due to the lack of classroom availability.
HT was informed that I had had no safeguarding training which the law demands.
HT explained that the school is under governmental pressure to take on more and more.
I later set out to establish what this entails and wrote to local education officials. No reply.
I had sent emails to the BoG Chair before the latest dated 29 November. She replied saying this was the first email she had received. I replied asking her to respond on or before 16 December.