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Grangetown Primary

daily timetables

timetable

This page provides schedules for a typical day at GPS. The school opens at 7.45am for Breakfast Club, and closes at 5pm after Home from Home after school care - a total of 46 hours and 15 minutes per week  (and behind the scenes, the building is operational 6.45am until 6.00pm, Monday to Friday!).

LITTLE BUTTERFLIES NURSERY

8.45 Children enter the Nursery
8.45 - 9.15 Access to indoor continuous provision
9.15 - 9.30 Key Worker Group Time
9.30 - 10.25 Access to indoor continuous provision, plus adult-led activities
10.30 - 10.40 Snack
10.40 - 11.20 Access to outdoor continuous provision, plus adult-led activities
11.30 - 11.40 Story/Song Time
11.45 Parents & carers collect their children
12.30 Start of afternoon nursery session
12.30 - 1.00 Access to indoor continuous provision
1.00 - 1.15 Key Worker Group Time
1.15 - 2.10 Access to indoor continuous provision, plus adult-led activities
2.15 - 2.25 Snack
2.30 - 3.15 Access to outdoor continuous provision, plus adult-led activities

FOUNDATION STAGE (NURSERY & RECEPTION)

8.50 Doors open & children enter the classroom
8.50 - 9.00 Early Bird activity
9.00 Group Time (Register & Welcome)
9.05 - 9.25 Topic/Literacy/Maths group time
9.25 - 10.20 Access to continuous provision, plus adult-led activities (indoors/outdoors)
10.20 - 10.30 Snack
10.30 - 11.15 Access to continuous provision, plus adult-led activities (indoors/outdoors)
11.15 - 11.45 Phonics
11.50 Home time for Nursery / lunchtime for Reception
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch break for Reception children
12.15

Start of afternoon Nursery

12.15 - 1.00

For Nursery children: access to continuous provision outdoors.

1.00 - 1.05 Group Time (afternoon registration)
1.05 - 1.25 Topic/Literacy/Maths group time
1.25 - 2.30 Access to continuous provision, & adult led activities
2.40 Snack
2.50 Story time
3.15

Parents & carers collect their children. Children are

released only when we see a parent or carer.

KEY STAGE 1

8.50 Doors open and children enter the classroom
8.50 - 9.00 Learning activities available in class, as the children arrive
9.00 - 9.30 Phonics groups
9.30 - 10.30 Lesson (may consist of a lesson plus a shorter separate learning activity)
10.30 - 10.45 Breaktime
10.45 - 12.00 Lesson (may consist of a lesson plus a shorter separate learning activity)
12.00 - 1.00 Lunchtime
1.00 - 3.15

Afternoon learning session. A 10 minute outdoor or indoor

break will be built into the afternoon.

3.15

Parents & carers collect their children. Children are

released only when we see a parent or carer.

KEY STAGE 2

8.50 Doors open and children enter the classroom
8.50 - 9.00 Learning activities available in class, as the children arrive
9.00 - 9.30 Guided Reading
9.30 - 10.45 Lesson
10.45 - 11.00 Breaktime
11.00 - 12.00 Lesson
1.00 - 3.20 Lessons
3.20
  • Years 3 & 4: children met by parent/carer at classroom/corridor door.
  • Years 5 & 6: some children collected by parent/carers, & others walk home themselves (with parent/carer permission).