The School Day at Hilmarton

The School Day

Normal school hours (32.5 hours a week)


Arrive at School

8:25am - 8:30am


Register Taken

8:30am


Play Break

10:10am - 10:25am


Lunch Break

12noon - 1:00pm


School Ends

3:00pm


A bit more detail about the day

Children are able to be dropped off at school from 8:25am in the school playgrounds, the class teacher will come out to collect the children. Reception and Key Stage 1 parents drop off at the back playground and can wait with their children until the class teacher arrives to take them into the classroom. Children in KS2 can be dropped at the front playground. Each class will be taken in via a different door to their classroom this is to prevent congestion in our narrow corridors.

The register is taken once the children go into class. Children who arrive after the class have gone in will need come to the main reception where a member of the admin team will take them to their class. Please do not go to your child’s class.

The main focus for the lessons throughout the morning are Maths and English and usually a reading session before lunch at 12pm.

All children have a play break during the morning. During this time children are able to have a healthy snack - we encourage children in KS2 to bring in a healthy snack from home.  KS1 children will have a portion of fruit/veg provided for them.

The children will then resume their learning until 12:00pm when lunch time starts. Lunch ends at 1:00pm.

During the afternoon children will be involved in a variety of different lessons including theme based art, geography, history and science. Throughout the year different classes will also have the opportunity to work with specialist sports coaches and Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 will spend a term each swimming at Calne Community Campus on a Monday Morning. 

The school day ends at 3pm for all children. Reception and KSI are collected from the main playground at the rear of the school and KS2 are collected from the front playground. We ask that parents inform us if someone different is collecting their child as we only release the children to the expected adult.

We offer After School Sports Clubs which usually run from 3:00-4:00pm. Please see the School Clubs page for more information.