Each year we publish our popular First Class supplement featuring photographs of reception classes from across the area. It’s becoming more and more popular with teachers, parents, carers, readers and ...

Peterborough Telegraph photographer David Lowndes has been busy in the city’s primary schools recently capturing the smiling faces of each of the new reception class intake. Did you know with an ...

SOME of the smallest – and largest – reception classes in Flintshire have been settling into school life and making new friends. SOME of the smallest – and largest – reception classes in Flintshire ...

Ministers are overhauling how teachers judge the progress made by pupils by the end of reception class in skills such as listening and speaking, reading, writing and numeracy. Pupils are graded as ...

Children entering the school system are increasingly unprepared to spend their first chunk of time away from home. That means extra workload for teachers and their assistants, changing nappies, doing ...

Every September, a new wave of youngsters start their school journey by joining reception. To celebrate, The News has put together a gallery of more than 150 pictures of classes at schools across the ...

School nurseries and reception classes as well as sixth forms are set to be given their own Ofsted ratings under a shake-up of inspections, it has been announced. Did you know with a Digital ...

Children in Reception class in England should be taught how to grip a pencil properly and how to sit correctly at a table, says the watchdog Ofsted. Inspectors say a third of five-year-olds do not ...

Children are back in school again, which means a fresh generation of excited kids are throwing on their uniforms for the first time for real. We have honoured the occasion by dipping into the archives ...