Potterspury Lodge School: Boarding\A Typical Day

POTTERSPURY LODGE SCHOOL

A TYPICAL DAY FOR A BOARDER

7.30am	The boys are given a wake-up call from the House Parent or Child Care Assistant. They get dressed into their school uniforms, tidy their bedrooms and make their beds.
8.00am	Breakfast time and then afterwards they clean their teeth. Each student undertakes a life skill job (e.g. laying the table for lunchtime, taking the dirty washing to the laundry room, washing up, drying-up or taking the rubbish to the dustbins).
8.50am	Care Staff accompany the boys into their tutor groups for registration and the start of their school day. This provides an opportunity to hand over successes or issues from the evening before to the class tutor.
12.45pm	Lunch in their hostel with Care Staff. At 1.30pm the boys go outside for break time and then back into school for the afternoon.
3.50pm	Care Staff visit the boys tutor groups to discuss the days achievements or any issues during the school day.
4.00pm	Boarders return to their hostels for the evening and can enjoy free time, as well as organised activities and sometimes a group meeting.
5.00pm	Suppertime in the hostel.
7.00pm	Evening activities are run by the educational staff until 8.00pm. Some activities are off site with Care Staff (e.g. swimming, army cadets, gym).
8.00pm	Boys return to their hostel, take showers or baths, have an evening drink and snack, with free time before bedtime. Bedtimes vary according to the age of the boys in each hostel.

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