ABSTRACT
What other features constrained your practice? What range of entry skills did the reception children bring with them
on entry? How did you go about building on them? What were your greatest successes? In which ways were you
unsuccessful? If you were starting now, in what ways would you have done things
differently? (materials, organization, approaches) What were the constraints preventing you from succeeding? Were there any particular features peculiar to last year affecting your
teaching/learning context? Was there any child/children who had highly specific individual
learning needs/problems? In relation to your aims as a reception teacher:
a What do you see as the strengths/weaknesses of family grouping?
