A school has increased the size of some of its maths classes to 60 pupils due to a “national shortage of specialist teachers”.
Caldicot School in Monmouthshire said it was teaching pupils in the first three years of secondary – Years 7 to 9 – in the bigger classes.
Rachel Garrick, a former Labour member of the council’s cabinet, claimed school governors were “begging” for help.
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