School Day

School Session Times

Nursery

Morning Nursery 9.10am until 11.25am

Afternoon Nursery 12.50pm until 3.05pm

Reception, Year 1 & Year 2: 

Doors Open: 8:50am

Morning Session: 9.00 am – 12.00pm

Afternoon Session: 1.15pm – 3.15pm

Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6: 

Morning Session: 9.00am – 12.20pm

Afternoon Session: 1.15pm – 3.30pm

Morning school begins at 9:00am. Doors will be open from 8:50am for the children to filter into their classrooms where their teachers will settle them for the school day. Parents are asked to ensure that children do not arrive in school before 8.50am. Lessons officially start at 9.00am promptly. It is vital that all children are in school and ready to learn at this time. Children arriving at school after 9.00am must come through the main entrance and be signed in by an adult.

For Reception to Year 2, the school day ends at 3.15pm. The children must be picked up from the playground at then end of the day. They are brought out onto the playground by the class teachers and are handed over to the parents or the designated person. Please wait for your child to be sent to you after their teacher and/or TA have made eye contact with you so that we can ensure all children leave school safely. No child will be allowed to go home alone. No child will be handed over to an unknown adult. School must be notified if there is a change in arrangements in the person picking your child up at the end of the school day.

Year 3 to Year 6 children finish school at 3.30pm. It is important that parents or a designated adult accompanies your child to and from school. It is the responsibility of parents/carers to see the children across the road safely. Children should not walk to school or go home alone until they are in Year 6 and parental permission has been given.

If your child needs to leave school early, you must inform school by telephone or email, stating the reason. Children must be collected and signed out by their parents on the iPad system via the school office.

Attendance

There is a proven link between attendance and attainment at school. Children are expected to attend school every day, punctually, unless there is a valid reason for not doing so. Children are rewarded for full attendance at the end of each term in celebration assemblies.

In the case of absences parents are asked to telephone the school before 9.10am so that your child receives the correct mark. You are respectfully requested to arrange medical appointments outside of school hours. Time off in term time for family holidays is not an entitlement and is strongly discouraged by school, the Local Authority and Welsh Government. Taking holidays during term time has a detrimental effect on learning.

‘Unauthorised absence’ is absence that has not been approved or adequately accounted for. School monitors lateness and absence very closely. We monitor individual pupil attendance on a regular basis and will contact you if your child’s attendance dips below our target of 96%.

On the rare occasion that unavoidable absences are requested, absence forms are available from the main reception area entrance, the office, or via our school website Online Office. Permission must be sought in writing for all unavoidable absence circumstances, in order for us to account for pupils’ absences. Your child’s attendance records will be checked before permission is given by the Headteacher. Failure to comply with the above will result in an unauthorised absence mark which will be noted on your child’s attendance records.

The Headteacher is notified by the office or class teachers if there is a continual absence by children or persistent lateness. The Headteacher will then contact parents to seek to remedy this. If it persists the Educational Welfare Officer (EWO) is involved. The job of the EWO is to help parents and the Local Authority meet their statutory obligations on school attendance.

Punctuality

It is important that children arrive at school on time so that we can make a prompt start to the day. Please ensure that your child / children are in their classroom and ready to learn by 9.00am.

Children arriving at school later than 9.00am must come through the main entrance. All other doors are locked at 9.00am for security reasons. If a child is late and the registers have been taken they will receive a late mark if they arrive by 9.30am. If they arrive after 9.30am they will receive an unauthorised absence. This will be noted on your child’s attendance record. You will be contacted by the Head Teacher if your child is persistently late.