Soft start time at school

[Daffntulip]

If your kids have a soft start at school, what happens during that period?

Gates open 840 ish and kids need to arrive by 855 and go straight to classroom - register closes by 9. At meet the teacher, the teacher gave an example of if a kid is 10 mins late all week, they will have missed 2 1/2 hours of arithmetic over the week. This seems odd if it's soft start.

Previously, all kids arriving before 855 played in the playground.

If all kids arrived at 840 (gate not always open by then) and finish at 315/320, that's not 32.5 hours of teaching time as they get a morning break and lunch break.

I believe the 32.5 hours is just hours on site. They could spend 2 hours a day having breaks in that if they want. Some schools extended the day by 15 mins and added an extra 15 minute break in. Ridiculous legislation/advice/whatever it was.

Agree, we extended our day by 15mins at the start of this school year. We were told it wasn’t necessarily to give them more teaching time, but just to be open for longer.