The primary grades are ten classes averaging twenty six children, each with its own class teacher for most of the week and specialist teaching for Islam, physical activity and the practical periods.
Reading is the priority in grades one to three and is timetabled daily. Every child is heard reading aloud by an adult three times a week, which is what a class of twenty six allows once the support assistants and the office staff are counted in. Books go home nightly in a plastic wallet and a ruined book is replaced without a charge or a conversation.
How the support works in these grades. Children with a plan are in these classes and are taught in them, with an assistant coming into the room rather than the child leaving it. Where a plan says a child works better out of the room for part of the day, they go to the unit rooms with the assistant and come back, and the class knows this is ordinary because it has always been ordinary here.
About forty children who have no plan also get support: fifteen minutes of one to one or a small group three times a week, mostly for reading, arranged by the class teacher with the unit.
The first term examinations are in grade four. Reports are two pages of sentences, every term, and the Monday open afternoon is how most families deal with anything in between.