Our School Day

As The Blessed Sacrament is a large school, we have split break and lunch times for different age groups. School organisation times are below:

Nursery	8:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
In addition to the Government funded 15 or 30 hours per child in nursery, we now offer additional sessions, which include the lunch period, for a fee of just £15 per session. Please contact Mrs Stables in the school office for more information.

Morning drop off 

To ease congestion, we will be operating staggered start and finish times for the remainder of the 2020 / 2021 academic year. It is important that we do not have parents congregating at the school gates and that we limit the number of interactions across bubbles.  

Families have been sorted by surname of oldest child and their times are as follows:  

   

SURNAME INITIAL	START TIME	FINISH TIME
A-D	8.45	3.00
E-J	8.45 - 8.55	3.10
K-P	8.55 - 9.05	3.20
R-Z	9.05 - 9.15	3.30

It is important that you adhere to the times above in order to ease congestion and support social distancing. Please remember to park sensibly when dropping / picking up from school – anybody parking dangerously will be asked to move their car immediately. 

All children are expected to be in school by 9.15am. Anybody arriving after this time will be marked ‘late’ in the register and this will affect attendance reports. 

Children will be dropped off and collected from different gates depending upon their corridor: 

CORRIDOR	Bubble	GATE
Early Years (Nursery & Reception)	Yellow	Yellow gate (accessed through double gates on Farringdon Lane)
Key Stage 1 (Year 1 & 2)	Green	Back gate accessed via Moorside Avenue
Blessed	Blue	Main pedestrian gate (not through the double gates)
Sacrament	Red	Side gate – accessed through church car park

 

We would encourage only 1 parent/adult to drop off and collect to help minimise the number of adults on site.  

Parents will not be allowed on the school site and we are encouraging a ‘kiss and drop’ approach at the gate before you move on to drop off any siblings. There will be lots of familiar staff to welcome the children and guide them to their classrooms.  

We will not be taking the temperature of children as they arrive at school. 

End of the day – Collection 

To ensure we are minimising contact and ensuring social distancing at the end of the day parents will not be allowed on site.  

The children will be brought out to their parent/adult at their allocated time via the gate that they were dropped off. Children will not be allowed to ‘walk round’ to another gate to meet you and will be supervised at the gate until you collect them. 

Once you have collected your child, please leave the school site as quickly as possible to allow the next group of parents to line up to collect their children.