How Do They Take Your Reception Child Into School

[FiveHoursSleep]

Our school is a 4 form entry this year and we gather outside the front door of the school and they call the children in one by one, class by class.
When their name is called, they walk up to their teacher and are passed through the door to stand in line with the rest of their class. We don't get to see inside the classroom.
If they become upset, they are taken off the parent and passed inside and the parent(s) is/are asked to wait in the meeting room for a bit until the child has calmed down.
At pick up time, the parents wait outside the door and the children are passed out one by one. If the teacher has concerns, the parents are asked to wait behind.
Is this standard or do most reception parents get to take their kids to the classroom?

What Rosebud and Haberdashery said.

Reception children are only 4 when they start. They will have SO many opportunities throughout each day (break time, after lunch, going home time) to practise their independent routines. It's a gradual process of skill-learning which they will have already started in pre-school and at home. But they won't all be at the same stage the day that they start Reception, nor should they be expected to be.

Re routine and order, it is actually more 'orderly' ime to let the parents take them in dribs and drabs in as soon as they arrive at school, than to make all the children wait in a line outside till the bell goes, then have a 60-child scrum in the (usually tiny) coat hanging area as they all try to do the same thing at the same time. That's exactly the sort of situation that will distress a shy and sensitive child in a new environment, no matter how good the teacher and TAs are at managing it.