PILOT DAR, thank you for that valuable detailed information.....
Ryan 5252, I'm not flying out of EGAD and I'd rather not say where I am flying from, many of the staff at my school use pprune and I don't want to set up a conflict situation (for now).
I accept the generaally negative response to having gone through 6 instructors at this stage in my training. As you can see in my initial post I had a very strong feeling that this was indeed an unacceptable situation. I have (and will continue to) insisted on only one instructor now as I am going into the circuits. Should this not happen I WILL take my logbook to an alternative school, they are all much further away from my home but I will change school if I have to.
As for the "SPINS", I was not instructed on full spins, only incipient spins. ...and as for circuits, I am quite comfortable entering the circuit at this stage. I have had little problem with techniques demonstrated in my training to date so I presume circuits is the next natural step. At least that seems to be the flow of things in my Flight Training manual.