The school day

Our school day runs from 9.00am until 3.30pm.

This is 32.5 hours per week (plus an extra 25 minutes with the soft start). 

We have a ‘soft start’ from 8.55am when children can enter the school premises (through the playground via either the Ashmead Road or Lewisham Way entrances) so they are ready to start the school day promptly at 9am.

We aim for all children to be on the premises (and ideally in their classrooms) for register at 9am. Anyone arriving past 8.59 and 59 seconds is considered late!

These are the typical daily timetables for each phase:

Lower School: EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) – Nursery and Reception

8.55: Children enter school and go straight to class.
9.00: Morning register is taken followed by a taught ‘carpet’ session, daily reading session (in Reception) and then free flow continuous provision/play based learning.
11.15: Tidy up time and another carpet session with teacher before lunch.
11.45: Reception go to lunch in dinner hall then out to the playground for lunchtime play.
12.00: Morning nursery children leave and full-time nursery children have lunch in class.
12.30: Afternoon nursery children arrive.
12.45: Reception children go back to class for afternoon carpet session followed by free flow continuous provision/play based learning.
2.45: Tidy up for end of day followed by a final carpet or story session before going home.
3.30: End of school day.

Year 1 and Middle School: Year 2 and Year 3

8.55: Children enter school and go straight to class.
9.00: Morning register is taken followed by a daily reading session, handwriting or spelling and a maths or literacy lesson.
10.15: Morning break
10.30: Assembly
10.45: A maths or literacy session (followed by free flow continuous provision/play based learning for Y1 and Y2).
12.00: Y1, Y2 and Y3 lunch break – lunch in the hall and play in the playground.
1.00: Y1, Y2 and Y3 children go back to class for afternoon foundation subject lesson (followed by free flow continuous provision/play based learning for Y1 and Y2).
2.45: Tidy up for end of day followed by a final carpet or story session before going home.
3.30: End of school day.

Upper School – Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6

8.55: Children enter school and go straight to class.
9.00: Morning register is taken followed by ‘early work’, e.g. handwriting, spelling or times table practice before assembly
9.15: Assembly
9.30: Back to class for a maths/literacy lesson.
10.35: Morning break
10.50: Back to class for a literacy/maths lesson.
12.15: Y4, Y5 and Y6 lunch break – lunch in the hall and play in the playground.
1.15: Y4, Y5 and Y6 children go back to class for foundation lessons, e.g. history, geography, art etc
3.00: Tidy up for end of day followed by a story session before going home.
3.30: End of school day.