Question for KS1 parents. What are the arrangement for your Y1 and Y2 child entering the classroom in the morning?

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The arrangements at DDs school are chaotic. All 4 classes have to line up in a space that isn't big enough to accommodate a line of 30 pupils and there are up to 120 parents crowding around this cramped space. The teacher blows a whistle and then each line is led into a shared corridor so the pupils can hang up bags and coats and then they go into their classrooms via the internal door, off the corridor.

DD started school at a different school and the arrangements were much better. The pupils entered the classrooms via their individual (exterior) class doors. They did not have to line up but were able to stand with parents, outside the door, until the teacher was ready for them to come inside.

I am wondering what is the norm.

Exactly what BOGOF said.

Hulababy - at ours the classrooms are all over the place and you could easily just wander about the school - in fact you are allowed to to watch sports or go to the after school club etc and I think its a bit unsecure thats all.

At the end of the day all the staff are available for chats just not at the beginning it all just depends on layout really doesnt it...

Ds is in yr 1 and only did 1 term in reception. Children are supposed to go in by themselves but the Victorian building is such that the route to the class room is very narrow, crowded and not straightforward. Plus the coat pegs are not directly in or by the classroom. So although would like to leave him at the external door he's not yet confident enough to negotiate his way through...so I take him to the classroom door. It's madness though cos the more parents that go in, the more crowded/chaotic it is...

Bell goes, ds goes into class. No lining up that I've noticed [occasional school run only emoticon].

In my DSs school all the classrooms have external doors to the payground. Kids and parents hang around till the door opens and then all the kids go in. In y3 parents will no longer be allowed to hang outside the classroom as we have to then wait in designated place for kids to come to us.