What has changed is that there has been a sharp rise in the amount of children with special educational needs being educated in 'normal' primary schools. If you are a teacher on your own without any help for these children it is very likely that these children would either be overlooked or lessons would overrun.
Lesson planning takes up way more time then it did 10 years ago because of the rise in needing differentiation and hitting targets.
Teachers are also expected to run lunchtime and after school clubs,10 years ago there were a lot less of these clubs and people from outside of schools would run them.
Smaller class sizes wouldnt make much difference because class size wouldnt affect workload apart from maybe a little less marking.Smaller class sizes wouldnt be feasible in England for the most part as now most primary schools are dual intake and still schools are so over subscribed that a huge amount are being built just for the class sizes now.
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