Children are expected to attend every school day from 8.45am – 3.15pm. These are the compulsory times we are open and this equates to 32.5 hours in a typical week.
Our Attendance Policy can be found here.

Our breakfast club opens at 7.30am and our after school club finishes at 6pm.

The playground opens at 8.35am when a member of staff is on duty to supervise children arriving. The bell rings at 8:45am, when children make their way to their classroom.

There is a playtime in the morning of 15 minutes children in Key Stage 1 are free to choose a piece of fruit. The school is part of the scheme run by the DfE where children in Key Stage 1 receive a piece of fruit a day.

School lunches are served in the hall between 11.30am when the Nursery children eat and 12.45pm when the oldest children in Key Stage 2 enjoy their lunch.

School finishes at 3.15pm when children in Red, Orange and Yellow classes are collected from their classrooms by an adult. Children in Key Stage 2 are dismissed from the playground. At the end of the day we ask that children are collected on time. It is distressing for a child, when everybody else has gone home, to be left at school. We understand that problems do arise, but if parents telephone us, we can reassure your child that you are on the way.

The playground closes at 3.30pm.

Playground buddies

There are playground buddies on duty in the playground every day at playtimes and lunchtimes. These are older children who have applied for the role and receive weekly support from an external trainer. The buddies work to ensure that children are happy and enjoying their time on the playground.

Playpod

We are delighted to have a Playpod in our playground, which is used every lunchtime. The Playpod is based in the theory of small parts play and encourages creative and imaginative play. The Playpod is filled with exciting items such as ropes, dressing up clothes, old keyboards and mobile phones and plastic crates. These items are available for all children to play with and are topped up each half term. Our lunchtime staff have received training as play leaders and supervise play, but the children have responsibility for the resources- including putting everything away at the end of lunchtime.