The School Day
At the start of the day:
Woodpeckers Breakfast Club runs from 7:30am to 8:30am. For more details, please follow the link below.
We open the gates at 8:35am for children to arrive and close promptly at 8:45am. We use a one-way system for both collections and drop offs. Families come in using the green gate by the alleyway and leave via the green gate by Year 2 (Willow Class). Infant children are dropped off at their classroom door. Junior children walk from the playground to their classrooms by themselves. For safeguarding, a member of staff will be present on each gate who can take messages or answer questions. Registration is at 8.45am. Any children arriving after this time, will be taken to the office by an adult to be signed in.
Weekly Infant Hours:
8:35am to 3:05pm Monday to Friday equates to 32.5 hours per week.
Weekly Junior Hours:
8:35am to 3:15pm Monday to Friday equates to 33.3 hours per week.
Snack:
The infant children are provided with a free snack of either fruit or vegetables as part of the Governments Free Fruit or Vegetables Scheme. (This does not arrive until the afternoon of the first day back, so children will need to bring in their own snack after each holiday.) The juniors will need to bring in their own healthy snack for playtimes which should only be fresh fruit or vegetables.
Lunchtimes:
Infant lunch is 12:00pm to 12:30pm and then they go out to play for half an hour. The juniors play from 12:00pm to 12:30pm and eat in the hall for the remaining half an hour.
All infant children receive a Universal Free School meal (UFSM) each day which needs to be booked via Chartwells using the link below (at least two weeks in advance). If junior children would like to continue with hot meals, this needs booking through Chartwells as above. Alternatively, children can bring a healthy packed lunch. Please make sure this does not contain any nuts or peanut butter as we are a nut free school. As we are a healthy school, we also ask that they do not bring in fizzy drinks, chocolate bars or sweets – chocolate covered biscuits are fine. If you want your child to have grapes, please cut them in half as they can be a choking hazard. Remember to include a spoon for yoghurts or desserts and a drink in their lunchbox. This can be a carton of juice or a smoothie, etc.
If your child has any allergies, please make sure you make us aware of these on the enrollment form. If you would like them to have a free school meal (UFSM), you will need to arrange this via Parent Pay prior to them having free school meals and agree a Special Diet Menu. Please note, Chartwells will not provide a meal if your child has food allergies without the Special Diet Menu in place.
https://www.chartwells.co.uk/west-sussex/
The end of the day:
Infant children finish at 3:05pm while juniors finish at 3:15pm and we use the same one-way system as the morning drop off. Infants are collected from their classroom doors. Juniors are collected from the main playground.
Woodpeckers After School Club:
Our After School Club runs everyday from 3:05 to 5:30pm. Please follow the link below for more details.
After School clubs:
We run a range of different after school clubs each day. Please follow the link for more details.
