How are your reception DCs taken into class each morning?

[luciemule]

Have just got home after 'the zoo'.
I heard 3 other women on their way home discussing the rabble-like way in which the teachers organise coming into recpetion class each morning. Even now, I'd say quite a few of the children still aren't settling after healf term and I'm sure it's due to the noise.
We take the children in, help put coats and lunch boxes away etc, then they have to put water away and book bags. Then they're supposed to choose a book from book bank and sit on the carpet or they sit at the writing table and draw/write. However, all the mums and dada remain until 9, there are people milling about everywhere and I find it really unsettling. DS never wants me to go, there are children sobbing here and there and it all seems like complete chaos!
Are there any of you who have a much more calm morning and are there any receptions where the staff lead the children in without parents?

They all line up in the playground by class on lines painted on the floor (!)and go in single file with a teacher at either end into the cloakrooms where they put their bag and coat on their pegs and then go to their classrooms. If it is raining then they have to sit by their peg on the benches in the cloakroom and file upstairs class by class.

all line up in playground behind the mark for their own class and then the teachers come out and one by one the classes traipse in. Parents stand behind the lines and watch dcs go in.
On the odd occasion I've had to go in with one of my dcs (when they've had a lot to carry etc) it seems once they're in the classroom they all take off coats, and hang them with their book bags on their pegs, put drinks bottles in a certain place, lunchboxes in another place and sit on the carpet for registration. All quite civilised IMO!

T/A greets children at the door, parents can go in and help them with coats etc, though I don't always, and then the children go to sit on a carpet with the teacher at the other side of the classroom. So the children who are already there are a little way away from the faffing about. Seems to work well.

Well yesterday it all changed- took DS in to the cloakroom area and he just said "okay mummy, you can go now". And off he went!
That solves that then - he obviously finds it easier to settle when I'm not actually there.