Term Dates & School Day

Calendar

Academic Year 2025/2026

Term 1 begins for pupils: Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Autumn Half Term Break: Monday 20^h October – Monday 27^th October 2025 inclusive

Term 2 begins for pupils: Tuesday 28^th October 2025

End of Term 2 (Christmas Break): Friday 19t^h December 2025

at 2pm

Term 3 begins for pupils: Monday 5^th January 2026

Spring Half Term Break: Monday 16^h February – Monday 23rd February 2026 inclusive

Term 4 begins for pupils: Tuesday 24^th February 2026

End of Term 4 (Easter Break): Thursday 2^nd April at 3.20pm (or after clubs)

Easter Break: Friday 3^rd April – Friday 17^th April 2026

Term 5 begins for pupils: Monday 20^th April 2026

School closed: Monday 4^th May (Bank holiday)

Summer Half Term Break: Monday 25^th May – Friday 29^th May 2026 inclusive

Term 6 begins for pupils: Monday 1^st June 2026

End of Term 6: Friday 17^th July 2026 at 2pm

Staff Development days 2025-2026

• Monday 1^st September 2025
• Monday 27^th October 2025
• Monday 23^rd February 2026
• Monday 20^th and Tuesday 21st July 2026

 

The School Day

The school office is open from 8.30am-3.40pm each day.

Pupils are not permitted onto the school site before 8.45am in the mornings (unless they are attending Breakfast Club at 8am) and should be collected promptly at the end of the school day at 3.20pm or after a school club. There is no supervision before 8.45am (except Breakfast Club) and pupils should wait with their parents at the wooden pedestrian gate outside the school premises.

8.45am: Pupils come onto the school site via the pedestrian gate at the top of Pearse Place. Parents say goodbye here and pupils can proceed straight to their classrooms. Reception pupils can meet their 'Year 6 Buddies' at the pedestrian gate and they will be escorted to their classroom door.

8.45-8.55am: Registration

8.55-9.15am: Morning class work/activities

10.15-10.30am: Assembly

10.30-10.45am: Playtime for all pupils.

(Children will have an allocated snack time within the morning but the time of this will vary with each year groups own timetable)

12.00: Class 1 - lunch

12.05/10: Class 2 & 3 - lunch

12.15: All other classes - lunch

1.15pm: End of lunchtime

3.15pm: End of the school day for Years R, 1 & 2

3.20pm: End of school day for Years 3, 4, 5 & 6