The School Day
School Opening Times:
8:50a.m. - 3:20p.m (excluding Wrap Around Care and After School Provision)
Total amount this amounts to in a typical week: 32.5 hours per week.
At Barwell Church of England Academy, our regular school day looks like this:
The School Day
|
Time |
Activity |
Notes |
|---|---|---|
|
8:40 |
Arrive at school |
Children to walk up the right hand side of the side of school or, if Y6, enter through the door on the front yard. On days when we chant, children line up at the top playground. |
|
8:45 |
The Barwell Chant! (Mondays and Fridays) |
“We are Barwell Family!” Children all take part in our whole school chant to begin and end our school week. |
|
8:50 |
Registration |
Take register and lunch choices are recorded on the board. |
|
9:00-10:40 |
10 minutes Track Time is allocated for each class from 9:00 onwards |
Time to exercise around the track |
|
9:00 |
Collective Worship (Monday to Thursday) Achievement Assembly (Fornightly on Fridays) |
Share in Collective Worship. On alternate Fridays, two or three Character Commendations are awarded for those who have shown great character! |
|
9:15 |
Learning Time |
English Focus including reading the class text that accompanies the half term’s learning journey. |
|
10:40 |
Break Time |
|
|
10:55 |
Learning Time |
Maths Focus |
|
12:00 |
Lunch Time/Explorers/Break |
The order of these activities vary with classes and year groups. Before eating, children say our 'Barwell Grace' and have 20 minutes in the dinner hall to eat; 20 minutes of lunch time is outside play and children have 20 minutes of Explorer Time. |
|
1:00 |
Registration |
Children to complete retrieval-type activities or independent reading during this time. |
|
12:55 |
Learning Time |
Learning Journey focus, unless needed to refocus on English or Maths Some classes may have PE Some classes may have computing Some classes may have Art/Design Technology |
|
2:40 |
Class Book (Monday to Friday) Achievement Assembly (Friday) |
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|
3:00 |
Prepare for home time |
Collect all belongings and get ready for home. Classes follow class teacher out of school in their lines. |
|
3:20 |
Home Time |
Ensure that the children are on the bottom yard for their finish time |