Purpose-built in 2006, our large and spacious classrooms are light, airy and a great place for children to learn.
The classrooms are bright and welcoming. Interactive whiteboards, break-out spaces, a library, a computing suite and a cooking classroom support and enhance opportunities for whole class, small group or individual learning.
Ensuring a safe, happy, healthy environment in which our children enjoy learning is central to our ethos.
Our school buildings also shield a magical green space containing a woodland and a pond, hedgerows and secret pathways; it’s a peaceful space in which to learn, or explore and a haven for wildlife.
Our school gardens, tended by children, produce vegetables and herbs, soft fruits and flowers.
Our children value the importance of sustaining our environment and recognise their responsibility for protecting it for future generations.
The School Day
In this section we will take you through a typical school day. It’s here that you’ll find information on key times for key activities and about the day-to-day arrangements for school.
Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club is available for those children whose parents have to be at work early. The club is available from 8.00am to 8.45am every weekday morning during term time.
Each session costs £5 per child. If you would like further information or would like to book a space please ask at the school office.
Breakfast is available free of charge for all Primary children from 8.30am. If you would like to attend breakfast club, come to the entrance on Bramber Road.
The Start of the School Day
- The school day for all children begins at 8.45am
- The playground gate in Mulgrave Road opens at 8.45am each morning.
- Children in Primary classes can enter the school at 8.45am, picking up some breakfast on their way to class where a learning task will be waiting for them.
- Families of children in nursery can bring their children to the playground at 8.45am and drop them off with Early Years staff who will take them into class.
- Children should not arrive at school before 8.45am unless they are attending Breakfast Club, as there will not be any adult supervision available.
- The statutory school day begins at 9.00am sharp. Registers are taken and children who are not in class at this time will be marked as late.
Morning Break times
KS1: 10.30am to 10.45am
KS2: 10.45am to 11.00am
On some days children in Years 1-6 will have a whole school assembly after which all children have a 15 minute break together.
An engaging play environment
The school’s substantial grounds include:
- An inner green space with wildlife pond, woodland copse, fire-pit and vegetable plots
- The Unity Farm that includes a chicken coop and allotments
- An extensive nursery outdoor area
- A large Primary playground complete with an outdoor pavilion, activity areas, an adventure play area and a multi-use Astro-turf pitch
Children are encouraged to participate in active, social play. In addition to the outdoor spaces, the adjacent indoor Studio space is open at lunchtime for Primary children to take part in creative art and table-top games and activities. The school also offers lunchtime gardening clubs.
Lunchtimes
Nursery & Reception: Lunch 11.30am to 12.50pm
Rec & KS1 (Y1 & Y2): Lunch12.00pm to 12.30pm / Playtime12.30pm to1.00pm
KS2 (Y3, 4, 5 &6): Lunch and playtime from 12.30 – 1.30pm.
Afternoon break
KS1 only: a 15 minute break at an appropriate time.
The End of the School Day
- The pedestrian gate on Mulgrave Road is re-opened at 3.30pm
- All classes finish at 3.30pm
- Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 children are collected from their classrooms.
- Children in KS2 will come to the playground to meet their parents.
- Please note that once children have been handed over to parents, they are no longer under the supervision of the school and should be closely supervised by their parents. Children are not allowed to ride scooters or bikes in the playground, climb on the climbing frame or play in the nursery outdoor space.
- The school day from 9am to 3.30pm is 6 hours 30 minutes each day and 32 hours 30 minutes each week. Children attending from 8.45am are at school for 33 hours 45 minutes each week.
Punctuality
Please make every effort to arrive at school in good time at the beginning and end of the school day.