This year we have moved to 1 hour blocks of learning which means that our breaks and bell times through the school day have changed. School is from 9am – 3:30pm each day, with classrooms opening their doors from 8:50am for students to enter and begin preparing for the day ahead.
While we adjust to the longer blocks of learning, many classes are ensuring adequate time to eat snacks prior to recess play at 11am and we have also found many year levels starting to introduce a healthy fruit snack at 10am between session 1 and 2. Please check Sentral bulletins from Year Level Leaders for details on this.
Recess is now a half hour break outside for students, lunch has 15 minutes of designated eating time then 45 minutes of outside playtime.
Moving from 50 minute blocks to 1 hour blocks is allowing us to enhance learning opportunities across the day and everyone is adjusting well to this change.
While this impacts us at school, it is important for families to remember these times in case of early pick ups or late arrivals. We can call students over the P.A at break times but this is avoided during learning time, so parents/carers will need to sign students out at the office and go to their classes to collect students.
Please see the list of times below.
Bell Times:
9:00am – Start of day
11:00am – Recess Playtime
11:30am – End of Snack
1:30pm – Lunch in Classroom
1:45pm – Lunch Playtime
2:30pm – End of Lunch
3:30pm – End of Day