School day and attendance

This section of our website outlines some key times of our school day and also important information about how we support and promote good attendance.

#attendancematters

The school day

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School day

8:30am - Classrooms open / morning learning activities

8:50am - Doors close and registration begins

8:55am - Assembly

9:10am - Lessons begin

10.15am / 10.30am - Playtimes

12:00 - 1:00pm - KS1 Dinner time

12.30pm - 1.30pm - KS2 Dinner time

3:30pm - End of learning time / home time

All classes take an additional physical activity session/playtime each afternoon for 15 minutes.
Class Briefing takes place on Tuesdays.
Celebration assembly takes place on Friday at 3:00pm
Children are, therefore, able to access school for 35 hours per week.
We also run a daily Breakfast Club from 7.45am - 8.30am.
We have extracurricular clubs each evening until 4.30pm.
Wraparound Care Club runs until 5.30pm.

Attendance

At Woodsetts Primary, we promote and support good attendance. This is made high profile in many ways including special displays around school:

We also promote attendance each week in our Friday Celebration Assembly. To view our Attendance Policy, please click here to jump to our policies page.

Each half term we also have Attendance Parties to help recognise children who have worked hard to achieve above our school target.