The school has approximately 200 children and 18 teachers. The children are grouped in 12 academic year groups with an average of just under 20 per class. Children enter the school in September following their 4th birthday and spend 3 years in the Infant department. The next four years are in the Junior department until they are 11 when they move into the Senior Department.
In the Infants and Juniors the children are class based and the first point of contact should be the class teacher. There is also a Primary Deputy Head who is in charge of primary. In the seniors, the person with the responsibility for pastoral care is the form tutor. The Headteacher or Deputy Headteacher may also be contacted.
When children start school they are assigned to one of 3 houses – ORTAC (green), CASQUETS (red) or BURHOU (blue). These houses are the focus of many school activities and provide a coherence and sense of belonging to the whole school from 4-16. During the week the children collect house points for good work and these are collated for Friday’s assembly. Weekly and Cumulative totals are announced each Friday and these drive the Island boat race which is displayed at the back of the Hall.
Moving on – the school has excellent links with the FE College in Guernsey and also with the Grammar School. It is to one of these that many pupils transfer at 16 to continue their education.
The School Day
Whole school:
08.45 – 08.50 Registration
08.50 – 09.10 Assembly
12:05 – 13.35 Lunch (all pupils go home for lunch)
Break and finishing times are staggered:
Infants: 10.10 – 10.25 Break
15.00 Finish
Juniors: 10.45 – 11.00 Break
15.30 Finish
Seniors: 10.30 -10.45 Break
15.40 Finish
The remainder of the day is divided into 7 periods of 40 minutes.
Children are asked to arrive no more than 10 minutes before morning or afternoon school for safety and supervision reasons. There is a school bus at the start and finish of the day and at lunchtime at a cost of 25p per trip.
Open Spring Term TimetableHere