The school day

08:35Day starts

15:15Day ends

6 h 40 minLength of daystart to end

33 h 20 minHours in a weekfive days, start to end, including breaks and lunch

08:3515:15

Lessons and other time

When	Time
School day starts	08:35
School day ends	15:15

Found on the school website by WhatSchool, February 2026. Not verified; the school website is the authority. Confidence in the match: medium. Page the times came from . Times can include breakfast or after-school clubs.

Expected length of the school week

The Department for Education expects all state-funded mainstream schools in England to provide a school week of at least 32.5 hours, from September 2024 at the latest.

Times found on the school website with medium confidence. Check with the school. They are not compared with 32.5 hours.

DfE guidance: Length of the school week (page updated 17 July 2023).

Ofsted

No overall gradeInspected 18/03/2025

Since September 2024 Ofsted has not given an overall effectiveness grade at new inspections. This inspection graded the key judgements below instead (Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate); safeguarding is effective or not effective. No overall grade is worked out here.

Judgement	Grade
Safeguarding	Effective
Quality of education	Good
Behaviour and attitudes	Good
Personal development	Good
Leadership and management	Good
Early years provision	Good

Inspection history

Date	Outcome
18/03/2025	No overall grade: Good in all four key judgements; early years provision Good; safeguarding effective
14/05/2019	Good

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026, via WhatSchool: Ofsted may have published a newer report since. Since September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade at new inspections, so a one-word grade, where shown, belongs to the inspection date beside it. Ungraded inspections give no grade and are dated by month only. Inspections from September 2024 to November 2025 grade key judgements; report cards (from November 2025) grade evaluation areas.

Ofsted reports for this school

Academy trust

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The Blue Kite Academy Trust runs 25 schools, including this one.

Brook Field Primary SchoolPrimary · Swindon · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Mar 2025; last graded Good (Jan 2014, previous school)
Lydiard Millicent CofE Primary SchoolPrimary · Swindon · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Jun 2024; last graded Good (Oct 2014, previous school)
Even Swindon Primary SchoolPrimary · Swindon · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection May 2024; last graded Good (Nov 2014, previous school). This inspection was of the previous school, before it became an academy.
Catherine Wayte Primary SchoolPrimary · Swindon · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Mar 2025; last graded Good (Mar 2015, previous school)
Greenmeadow Primary SchoolPrimary · Swindon · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Dec 2024; last graded Good (Oct 2012, previous school)
Ferndale Primary School & NurseryPrimary · Swindon · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Jul 2024; last graded Good (Jan 2014, previous school)

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