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Primary school start time?

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CatCatCatCatCatCat · 27/03/2024 16:37

What time does your primary school start? Just curious as ours seems earlier than others so wondered what time others start?

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TwinklyTraybake · 27/03/2024 17:14

Infants - doors open 8.45, doors close 8.55
Juniors - doors open 8.40, doors close 8.45

BelfastBelle05 · 27/03/2024 17:15

Causewerethespecialtwo · 27/03/2024 16:58

8.35 gates open.
8.40 gates are locked.

Locked??!
What do you do if you’re late? Throw your child over the fence and hope for the best?

cariadlet · 27/03/2024 17:17

Doors open from 8.30. Children come into class and do morning work.

Children need to be in by 8.55 (official start of school day).

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Marblessolveeverything · 27/03/2024 17:18

Gates open at 0800, classes at 0830, secondary and primary .

whoscoatsthatjacket2012 · 27/03/2024 17:21

8.50 -3.20 for our primary
8.30 -3 for our comp

GrandparentIssues · 27/03/2024 17:21

8.20am drop off
8.30am school

sanityisamyth · 27/03/2024 17:21

8.55am but there's a free breakfast club from 8.15am, or a paid breakfast club from 7.30am.

DinnaeFashYersel · 27/03/2024 17:22

9.05 - primary

No gates so they can get there whenever and play outside. Mine get the bus which gets them there about 845

0.50 for high school

SuePotato · 27/03/2024 17:22

8am is when the gates open, everyone has to be in by 8.10am at the latest. Ridiculously early, but then again they finish earlier- which is nice especially in the summer months with the evenings staying lighter as it means we can get out and do things before dinner time.

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 27/03/2024 17:23

8:30-8:50 gate and classrooms open at 8:30 all children need to be in and doors close at 8:50. Having a window like this is great. Finish at 3:15 on Fridays the classroom is open from 3 for parents to go in and see what the children have been working on that week. It's a 4 form intake in a large seaside town.

OldBeyondMyYears · 27/03/2024 17:37

At my school (I'm a teacher) we start at 8.30 😦 Doors open from 8.25 for a 'soft start' 🤷‍♀️

We used to start at 8.50 but this changed in September (many tears were shed 🤣) We don't get paid any more, and we still finish at 3.25! We also changed from 55 minutes lunch break to 45 minutes...the days feel very long now!

It's added an extra 35 minutes onto our day (with the 'soft start' opening)...which is 5 minutes shy of 3 hours a week. That's a lot of extra work 😮

Groovee · 27/03/2024 17:45

8.50am.
P1/2 finish at 2.40pm
P3-7 finish 3.10pm

SnapdragonToadflax · 27/03/2024 17:51

Gates open 8.35am, close 8.45am. Day finishes at 3.15pm.

I wish we had a longer window!

171513mum · 27/03/2024 17:55

Gates open at 8.30, close at 8.45. Kids in playground until 8.45 unless it's chucking it down.

Colinfromaccounts24 · 27/03/2024 18:15

Ours is drop off between 08:30-08.50

dutysuite · 27/03/2024 18:21

8.25

Cyclingforcake · 27/03/2024 18:23

8:55. 9:00 for reception. I think gates open at 8:45 but you have to stay until your child walks into the classroom at 8:55. It’s quite an open site.
Pick up 3:30 or 3:25 for reception.
All 4 primaries in our town have slightly different times to slow the school bus to drop at all of them.

idontlikealdi · 27/03/2024 18:24

Gates open 830. Closed at 845.

avocadotofu · 27/03/2024 18:24

School I teach at 9am. DS's school from 8:45-9am.

PeatandDieselfan · 27/03/2024 18:26

We are in continental Europe, where everything gets going early!

Doors open at 7.55, they are supposed to be in by 8.15, after 8.20 they are marked as late. Some days they have to go in at 7.30.

1st - 3rd grade finish classes at 12, older ones different each day, some time between 12 and 2.30.

Causewerethespecialtwo · 27/03/2024 18:27

BelfastBelle05 · 27/03/2024 17:15

Locked??!
What do you do if you’re late? Throw your child over the fence and hope for the best?

Haha. We have to do the walk of shame through the school office.

Cocothecoconut · 27/03/2024 18:28

8-40

FurnitureAddict · 27/03/2024 18:31

Gates open at 8.35 and shut at 8.45 when the registers close

DontCallMeKidDontCallMeBaby · 27/03/2024 18:31

School starts at 840am, drop off is from 825am.

TheHorneSection · 27/03/2024 18:32

8.30 for an 8.45 start, until 3.