If you work in secondary - school day timings

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What are the timings of your school day? DD will start reception in September and I need to rethink our childcare. She is currently in a private day nursery with a 7.30 start. My school is 30 mins away and our contracted hours start at 8.15 with a briefing in the staff room. I can make it, but it's tight, and there's no space for any prep in the mornings. First bell goes at 8.25 and lessons officially begin at 8.30. The teaching day ends at 3.05. It's my perception that our school day starts and ends particularly early but am I right?

Wow! Some of these teaching days are short.

First bell is 8:20am, 2:30pm finish. After school activities until 3:30pm

Teaching staff arrive from 7:30am.

I was thinking these days are short. Must be a nightmare for parents. We finish at 3:40. I only work three days at the moment but on the day I do an afterschool session (English GCSE for some of the sixth form boarders) I finish at 5. This is also when I used to finish rehearsals when I had the time to do plays. How do the people with shorter days get everything done? How long are your lessons?

my hours ( TA) are 8.15-4.30 with 45 mins for lunch, although obviously myself, and all the staff in the department are in by 7.30 at the latest. Teachers don't have to stay beyond 3.30, although support staff stay until 4.30. In practice, teachers without child care or appointments are on site until 6-7pm

Ring your local council (FISH) and ask for a recent up to date list of childminders in your area/town and find out if they have places and do school drop off and pick ups.

You willl find it a lot easier not having to worry about those.

I find parents in my town worrying about their jobs when they realise their child doesn't have childcare when they start school because their nurseries only take up to age 5. That's why I prefer a childminder as your child stays with the same career from being a baby up until they aren't independent to get themselves to school and back.

Our school students are there 8.40-3.15.