Is every reception class in the land named after an animal?

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Obviously not. But I wonder if there are many that aren't! DS1 is going into Tigers.

A friend's DD is going into Bluebells and the other class is Snowdrops. DS would not be happy about that!

(Obviously not massively important etc etc, just wondering)

Planets here too. Reception classes aee and moon and sun. Each reception class is then split in to 4 smaller groups, DD is a butterfly, there are also caterpillars, tadpoles and frogs (not too obviously split on ability then )

'are moon and sun'

We have 2 classes per year and the school is N H Primary so the classes are RN/RH 1N/1H etc

Within the classes they have their 'home tables' which have a colour and in infants they have phonics groups that are animals. DS2 is in Dolphins which has no bearing on his ability as far as i know. (Or i can't figure it out lol!)

Our infants school has 6 class and all are animals, as chosen a couple of years ago by the children in school.

Reception - Penguin, Tigers, Leopards
Year 1 - Parrots, Dragonflies, ...
Year 2 - Hawks, Eagles, ...

(can't remember other two off hand!)

DD's school has no names - class just known by year group/teacher.

My niece's school names all it's classes by planets.

My class are also split into 4 groups - they have spiders, butterflies, caterpillars and ladybirds for ability groups (varies for Lit and Num), colour groups for mixed ability work and then teacher named groups for Phonics.

Ours has a space theme and it's the classrooms that are named rather than the classes:

Discovery 1 & 2 for the Reception classrooms
Voyager 1 - 6 and Apollo 1 - 4 for Y1 - Y6 (Voyager are in the school
block and Apollo are mobiles)
Plus the Observatory which is a multi-purpose room

I have never encountered classes named after "anything" other than the year group (and in the case of multiple classes in the same year group the addition of the teacher's name/initials). I know that some schools see calling the class the "red squirrels" is meant to be cosy /charming/friendly/cute ...but I can't help thinking WHY?

Ours has mythical creatures.
One being dragon class,which,luckily,no way refers to the teacher concerned.

I think a lot of the littlies like their class having a 'special name' that they identify with - but our school never had any whilst it was one-form entry. Now, they do.

Not in KS2, though.

Nope DCs used to be colours, but are now trees.

mrz - our School Council (the children) brought the whole thing up - they asked to have names and we couldn't see a reason why not. It's been quite nice recently for doing out class banners and flags in prep for Sport's Day and the Jubilee Parade though as we have used our class animal as our mascot drawing on them.

At my DCs school the classes are named after gemstones. Reception is Rubies, Y6 are Diamonds :o

This has been a genuinely interesting read, thank you everyone who replied!

Hulababy I used to name my groups (in the deepest darkest past) after animals etc until the day I heard myself uttering the immortal words ...
giraffes wash your hands for lunch so the idea of naming my whole class however my class would probably prefer something like brain sucking zombies to being called fluffy bunnies give a choice

DCs' school - colours for Reception and KS1, local rivers for KS2...

Ours are numbers. Which do now correspond to year groups, but until recently the classes were mixed age (so 'could the Class 1 Year 1s go with the Class 2 Year 1s to Multiskills today') Names might be easier....

My DS is a Ladybird too, Alibaba.

The other R class here are Butterflies and the classes further up all seem to have literary names - Austen and the like.

Very different from my own school, which was like something out of EB or EBD, all Form 1 and Upper V etc.

Our classes are named after 'road names' from around the village, so no animal names here

And the dd's old school was gem stones.

we have colours, reception are blue and red, year 1 are yellow and green year 2 orange and purple, juniors and birds...

Trees - Maple to be precise.

All our school classes are trees with Reception being Willow and Acorn and then Yr 6 being Oak and Birch, with a variety of trees in between!

Groups in reception are piglets, puppies, lambs and possibly another one or two.

Maths groups for DD in yr 5 are triangle, square and pentagons!!

We had some complicated tree based system, which only Y1 seemed to understand. The rest of us just called them by number.

Reception/class 1, class 2 etc. No names.

No, DD's class, and the other reception class were named after elements of the weather.

ours aren't named at all. it's just reception