New term 2021 Arrangements

We hope all our families have enjoyed a break over the summer and look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday.

In terms of COVID guidelines, we ask that if your child has any COVID symptoms, he/she remains at home until a test result is received. If a result is positive, isolation guidance must be followed. All staff will continue to take twice weekly lateral flow tests.

Timings of the school day

To ease congestion on the playground and to reflect children’s slightly shorter lunchbreak, we are staggering the start and end of the day so that EYFS and KS1 children start and finish slightly earlier than KS2 children. Older siblings of children in EYFS and KS1 can continue to come in at the earlier start time. Please note, adults collecting children will no longer have to leave the playground between collecting children in different year groups. We are no longer using the red gate – parents and carers can come in and out of the main gates.

• EYFS & KS1 start time - 8:40am

• EYFS & KS1 end of day - 3:20pm

• KS2 Start time - 8:50am (the gate will close by 8.55am)

• KS2 End time - 3:30pm

Entrance & Exit areas

• EYFS - enter the school through the right-hand side hall door, collection in front of the hall doors

• Year 1 – enter and exit the school through the left-hand side of the school hall, collection from outside the hall

• Year 2 – enter and exit the school through the Y1/2 door on the far left of the building, collection by the pirate ship

• Year 3 - Enter through the right-hand side hall door, collection by the gym equipment

• Year 4 - Enter round the back of the school, collection on to the playground by the gym equipment

• Year 5 - enter through the Upper KS2 door and exit through same door

• Year 6 - Enter and exit through their own external classroom doors (far right of playground)

We encourage our older children to say their goodbyes at the gate and walk in to school independently.

Lunchtimes

Lunchtimes will continue to be staggered but there will be more mixing between year groups. Eating lunch in classrooms has been popular with older children and this also enables us to have more time for PE in the hall in the afternoons.

Children in EYFS, Y1 , Y2 and Y3 will eat lunch in the hall. Children in years 4, 5 & 6 will continue to eat lunch in their classrooms.

Children in EYFS, Y1 & Y2 will play together outside and children in Y3, Y4, Y5 & Y6 will play together outside.