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School Day

The playground is supervised from 8:40am when children may begin to arrive at school. 

The school day starts at 8:50am. Staff take the register at 8.55am and learning starts promptly.

Year R

In Year R, the children do not tend to follow a strict timetable of lessons during the day, as activities and timings are shaped by their engagement in their learning. However, this is what a typical day may look like:

08:50 – Start of the school day and registration
09:00 – 09:30 – Adult guided activities and focus jobs
09:30 – 10:30 – Phonics
10:30 - 10:50 – Break (snack time and milk)
10:50 – 12:00 – Explore to Learn (independent learning)
12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch
13:00 – 13:10 -Registration
13:10 – 13:40 - Maths
13:40 – 14:30 –Explore to Learn (independent learning)
14:30 – 15:00 - Adult guided activities and focus jobs; storytime
15:00 – 15:20 - Collective Worship
15:30 - Home time

Key Stages One and Two

A typical day in Key Stage 1 or 2 may look like:

08:50 – Start of the school day and registration; morning jobs
09:00 – 09:30 – Spelling or Handwriting
09:30 – 10:30 – Phonics, English or Maths
10:30 - 10:50 – Break time
10:50 – 11:50 – English or Maths
11.50 – 12:00 – Storytime
12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch
13:00 – 13:10 -Registration
13:10 – 15:00 - Learning Time
15:00 – 15:20 - Collective Worship
15:30 – End of the School Day

Our school week is a total of 33.33 hours. This meets the non-statutory DfE requirements of a miniumum school week of 32.5 hours. 

Collective Worship

We have assemblies (collective worship) each day. We celebrate a range of religions though our collective worship time, as well as reinforcing our British Values, school core values and celebrating our successes.

Our timetable for collective worship is as follows:

Monday - Whole School Assembly to introduce the key theme or topic for the week.

Tuesday - Class Assembly

Wednesday - Class Assembly

Thursday - Singing Assembly

Friday - Celebration Assembly