As a school we ensure that all students have a chance to drop everything and read (DEAR) every day for 20 minutes. At present this is taken out of subject lesson time. From September 2024, DEAR will have its own time on the timetable along with Personal Social Health Education. In order to create time for this to happen we have had to change the school day, which has been ratified by the full Governing Body.

The new school day will be as follows and as you can see it means that there will be a 3pm finish every day:

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