Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reception class
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For my work experience I went to the local primary school where I was a classroom helper with the reception class.
▪ Headteachers began filling empty reception class places with under-fives in the Seventies because the low birth-rate had caused a shortage of five-year-olds.
▪ In the reception class it can be seen in the first moments of a school day.
▪ The techniques in practice Chris Chris was nearly 5 years old and had just entered his infant reception class.
Usage examples of "reception class".
In the reception class which Willie attended there was a game about buns in a baker's shop.