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)

Ours are named after shrines. Receptions is where 2 priest were caught and later hanged from the town's bridge.

jollyrancher, what are they?

just year R here - only one class per year so all very boring and dull.
Nearby town school has named classes after some of Dartmoor's Tors - but not brat tor I gather.

Tables / groups for work seem to be named for fruit in YR &1. further up the school it varies, but one teacher does have very transparent naming - maths; circles, triangles , squares and hexagons . Writing ; full stops, commas, exclamation marks, going up the ability levels.

In Y6 DSs literacy groups were so transparent. He was in Shakespeare (smug mother). The least academic were in Dahl.

In Y1 Children were in Biff, Chip, Kipper, and Floppy. DD was in "Floppy". Which confused me, because my DD surely couldn't be in the bottom group. Parents evening confirmed she was, indeed, in the bottom group. Damn you, Floppy.

Why would DS not be happy about bluebells and snowdrops? Is he not keen on nature, plants and gardens?? (He probably did not see any of the Chelsea Flower Show on TV a few weeks ago.)

Or has he already been indoctrinated that some things are 'male' and some are 'female'? Twenty years ago my wife did a research project on 'Sex-Role Stereotyping'. Young children only discriminate on 'gender' when adults teach them to; left to play without adult influence some children will quite happily role-play the opposite gender.

Actually, that's a good point.

My DSs couldn't have cared less about going into Bluebells or Snowdrops. DS2 certainly didn't mind going into Doves.

There's a mixture of one class and two classes in different years - if only one class they are known as Reception or Year 2 etc. If not then by the teacher's name so Mrs A's class etc.

In DCs old school it was planets for the whole school although they started with Pluto which isn't exactly a planet any more I don't think.

one reception class here known as Sunshine Class - no other names for the other classes in the school tho......

More trees here, fruit for reception.
Daft system, I preferred teacher initials + yr number.

Neah, Turnip, next generation names would be Jordan, Pop Idol, BGT & "I'm a Sleb".

DS1 seems to be in a right old phase of hating things he perceives as 'girly'. I challenge him on it. That's all.

No names for classes at DD school - just year number or R for reception followed by the first letter of the teacher surname. Groups however, in reception at least, are name after chocolate bars. There are crunchies, buttons, caramels and flakes. DD is a flake!.

Year group and teacher's initials here, so DS1 is in 5PD and DS2 is in 3KD. The two YR classes are RIK (R for Reception, IK for teacher's initials) and RCC.

Been like that for the 8 years I have had DC going through the school.

They have houses for house points and sports day and competitions though, Oak Ash, Fir and Chestnut. They are placed in a house at the end of YR. Each house wears different colour tops on sports day etc, Oak is yellow, Ash is dark blue (to distinguish from the light blue of the normal uniform tops), Fir is green, and Chestnut is red.

They always place siblings and step/half siblings in the same house, even if they have different addresses, the rest of the pupils get put in houses where there are spaces left, to ensure an even split through the school.

My DC are in Chestnut. Chestnut won sports day yesterday even though both my DS's came last in their races. They get the trophy this year, so it now has red ribbons tied to the handles in the display case.

Yay for our school still having a proper competitive sports day. My DC KNOW that they will come last, but they still have to do a race, and accept that they will come last, but they might be better at maths or science or art or history than the winners of every race.

They did stop the parents race 4 years ago after a mum broke her ankle - now that DID get ultra competitive!

Oh, forgot to say, each class will have DC from every house in, it's not one house per class.

Lions, Tigers an Bears, oh my!

Ours are trees too but always referred to as Mrs. X's or year 3

Those of you with planet classes..is there seriously a year group called uranus in the school?

"Stop that noise, Uranus"

When they are in KS2, they are set for maths and literacy, and go to different classes for those lessons if they are not in the right one. They have 3 sets across Y5/6. (mixed year for Maths and literacy but not other lessons, as it's 2FE in Y6 but only 1FE in Y5), top, middle and bottom. Y4 simply has top set and bottom set, and Y3 has top, middle and bottom (3FE).

Having a 1FE in Y5, and 3FE in Y3, when the school is normally 2FE has messed with their usual system for KS2, which is to have 4 sets across Y3/Y4 mixed on ability, very obviously, as they were top, upper middle, lower middle, and bottom sets, and the same across Y5/Y6.

The teachers gave up with euphemisms because all the parents and DC knew who was in what set, about 6 years ago when our current HT took over.

LynetteScavo Aaargh about Chip & Biff!!

Classes here are just R1 & R2 etc, but from KS2 there are also coloured 'Houses' that span across the year groups and classes and stay fixed until they leave.

Our classes are the elements on the periodic table! Mine is mercury and I think reception class is oxygen..