School Prospectus 2018-19

St Peter’s Catholic Primary School 2018-19 Headteacher: Mrs A Heyes

01253 734658

head@st-peter-pri.lancs.sch.uk

Welcome to St Peter’s Catholic Primary Mission Statement Through loving God, everyone at St Peter’s School is committed to creating a happy, loving, secure environment for learning, which has Christ at the heart of its community, where everyone is valued and shows respect for each other.

St Peter’s is a Voluntary Aided Catholic Primary School. As a Catholic School the values of the Gospel and teachings of Jesus are at the heart of our approach to all aspects of school life. As a member of the Catholic Community we believe that every child is precious and deserves the best possible education, an education which allow the child to reach beyond expectations and one that promotes development of the whole person.

We realise this ambition by maximising high standards of learning, sharing and caring, a place where Christian values and virtues are exemplified. Our mission is to bear witness to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the practice of our Catholic faith through our lives and our role as teachers. Our work and the description of our work is set in the contest of our mission statement.

Our School Aims To be inspired and challenged by the Gospels, and to celebrate in word and action God’s love for us and our love for him.

To provide a community spirit in which children are happy and made to feel welcome and valued, conscious of their own worth as individuals.

To prepare children for life-long learning, valuing the uniqueness of every child and providing for their needs within a safe and secure environment.

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underpinned by the core values of the Gospel.

so that each child may learn to live as a member of God’s family world-wide.

and enquiring minds through the establishment of a firm foundation of positive attitudes and skills, and an understanding of themselves as learners.

To continually strive for excellence in teaching and to offer challenge leading

To care for, and to serve those, who have particular needs both within our

to the highest standards of personal achievement of all our children, where effort is valued equally with attainment.

school and those who are outside it.

To provide an inspiring curriculum which reflects the uniqueness of the Catholic school; built on thematic activities and first-hand experiences,

To encourage a spirit of friendship and cooperation and promote high

To develop active learners with lively

standards of behaviour, which reinforces mutual respect, tolerance and understanding of the needs of others,

To work in partnership with parents, governors, parishes and members of the wider community, to involve and inform them, and welcome them to share in the school’s liturgy and prayer life.

The Curriculum By law schools are responsible for proving a broad and balanced curriculum which:

‘Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental, and physical development of pupils.’

‘Prepares pupils for opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life regardless of age, background or gender’ At St Peter’s, the teachers deliver the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum in Reception and the National Curriculum (2014) in Y1Y6, to meet the requirements of RE, Mathematics, English, Science and Computing; and Foundation subjects of History, Geography, Music, Art, Design Technology, Modern Foreign Language and Physical Education. At St Peter’s the curriculum is linked to engaging topics; enabling pupils to develop progressively, a range of subject specific, knowledge, skills and vocabulary.

Alongside this academic coverage we provide our pupils with with wider curricular experiences. There is an array of opportunities for enrichment and investigative learning; Challenge Weeks, Healthy Week, Project-based learning, focus subject days, The Life Bus (PHSE), The RSC Project, Creative Homework, Mindfulness Activities, visits and visitors.

Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum There are seven areas of learning and development. The prime areas: communication and language; physical development; personal, social and emotional development.

Additionally there are the four specific areas: literacy; mathematics; understanding the world; expressive arts and design.

The pupils are taught through a continuous provision model; play and exploration of our structured indoor/ outdoor learning environments is supported and facilitated by the teaching team, to enable development of key skills and concepts.

Assessment The Foundation Stage The children at the foundation stage are assessed in all areas of learning at the end of the Reception Year. In order to make accurate assessments the teacher also completes a baseline assessment at the beginning of the year. This assessment is intended to provide immediate information to the classroom teacher as well as a Baseline for measuring the progress of pupils.

The National Curriculum With the introduction of the revised National Curriculum in 2014, pupils are now assessed against key age-related developmental steps.

At the end of Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children will take Standard Assessment Tests (SATs). These tests are marked against a common national scale.

Throughout the school year your child will be continually assessed to ensure that they are making good progress. The school uses a variety of formal tests in combination with moderated and thorough teacher assessments.

Parents are invited parent consultation meetings in the Autumn and Spring Terms. At these meetings you will be given detailed information regarding your child’s achievements, and specific targets your child is currently working towards. Additionally at the end of each term a written progress report is produced.

framework of Religious Education, and within the moral and dogmatic teaching of the Church. Parents are informed of any special programmes in sex education.

RE Curriculum The Diocesan Curriculum Directory forms the basis of the RE Curriculum delivered at St Peter’s. A variety of quality resources and published schemes are used to ensure that lessons challenge and engage. As a

Religious Education Through religious education, pupils study the Catholic tradition and come to an appropriate knowledge and understanding of different religious dimensions of life. They are given the opportunity to examine their own religious attitudes and to respect the convictions of others.

The Catholic faith perspective is not an added extra, which we teach and offer the children, it is integrated into the

whole life of the school and into all the aspects of the curriculum.

Bound together as we are, by the unity of our faith , the children’s education is developed in an atmosphere of caring, sharing and example.

‘Jesus is at the heart of all that we do.’ (St Peter’s School motto) HRSE (Human Relationships and Sex Education) falls within the general

core subject area, the spent spent on this area of the curriculum varies from 2 to 2.5 hours per week.

Each child takes part in a daily act of worship and formal prayers are used to open and close the school daily sessions. Sacramental Preparation for Reconciliation and Holy Communion are undertaken by the catechists of the Parishes of St Peter’s and St Joseph’s.

Religious education is further enhanced and given expression through the Liturgical life of the Church.

Additional support for pupils identified with Special Educational Needs Provision is made to assist pupils with special educational needs. Use is made of structured learning materials and apparatus. Every effort is made to develop the skills and abilities of each child to their fullest potential. Each child with special needs has a support plan which is monitored and reviewed each term.

We at St Peter’s School exercise our function under Part II of the 1993 Education Act and have regard to the provisions of the Code of Practise 2014 for the identification and assessment of Special Educational Needs pupils.

The full policy for Special Educational Needs os available in school and on the school website alongside our Local Offer. This provides parents with detailed information. Parents are encouraged to make an appointment to see their child’s class teacher or SENCO (Mrs Hazeldine) if they have any concerns regarding their child’s progress or to discuss supporting any additional needs they may have.

Children who have a Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) are provided with specialist help by additional staff with expertise in the specific special need.

Admission of pupils with disabilities is carried out in consultation with the Local Authority who will provide special equipment and alterations required for easy access to the curriculum. All pupils regardless of disability are treated equally and the full curriculum entitlement. A multisensory room has been set up and through consultation with our building surveyor all new building work isn school provides suitable updates to allow access for the disabled.

Funding Voluntary Aided Schools Being a Voluntary Aided School brings an element of freedom to us as a school regarding admissions and governance. With this freedom comes a cost. We have to provide 20% towards the cost of School Building repairs and Improvements. Half of this sum has to be raised by the schools and half is provided for by the Catholic parishes of the Diocese. The mutually supportive Diocesan School Building Fund enables our school to access funds as needed and acts rather like an insurance scheme.

Our school needs to raise approximately £4000 annually towards this building fund. We endeavour to raise the is money by voluntary parental contributions. You can help by agreeing to make a regular voluntary contribution by using a standard order and gift aid forms, which we will provide.

Alternatively you can make a one of payment of £20 annually with gift aid, per child. A contribution of this amount is required in order for us to reach our target figures.

Pupil Premium Funding The Pupil Premium is funding in addition to the school’s budget. Schools are free to decide how to allocate this funding to best support the raising of attainment for the most vulnerable pupils.

In 2017-18 the school received £9000 in Pupil Premium allocations.

The pupil premium is used in a variety of ways. These include: • Additional TA support to deliver personalised intervention programmes • Employing a learning mentor to support vulnerable families • Funding support for trips and activities.

Admissions The Governors will admit up to 30 children in September 2019.

If the number of applications for admission exceeds the places available, children will be admitted subject to the following criteria which will be assessed in order of occurrence and used to form a priority order.

A. Baptised Roman Catholic ‘Looked After’ Children and Baptised Roman Catholic previously ‘Looked after’ Children.

B. Baptised Roman Catholic Children who are living in the parishes of St Peter’s, Lytham and St Joseph’s, Ansdell

C. Baptised Roman Catholic Children who will have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.

D.

Other Baptised Roman Catholic children.

E.

Other ‘Looked After’ Children and previously ’Looked after

children’.

F. Other Children who will have a sibling in the school at the time of admission.

G.

Other baptised Christian Children.

H.

Children of other world faiths

I.

Other Children.

Applications for a place at the school much be a made on the Local Authority online application form no later than 15th January 2019.

In addition to completing the Local Authority application form, parents who wish their child to be considered against the priority faith criteria should also complete the School’s Supplementary Advice Form and return to the school office alongside your child’s Baptism Certificate if baptised.

Non Routine Admissions (A place for a child of current school age) Please contact the school office to establish whether a place is currently available. Parents may Appeal if a a place is not available.

Parental Involvement

circumstances. An Absence Request Form must be completed before any

Parents are always welcome in school and are involved in many

holiday is booked and permission sought. Any holiday time not sanctioned by the headteacher will result in unauthorised absences being recorded for the holiday

varied activities. Requests are made throughout the year for parental helpers and meetings are held to explain these activities. If you can spare us some time, however short, to help in school, please do not hesitate to contact us- we would be really pleased to welcome you.

Holidays during term time No child should be taken out of school during term time for a holiday period. Permission to do so is at the discretion of the headteacher and is only granted in exceptional

period. Parents who persistently take unauthorised holiday time will be liable to a penalty fine from the Local Authority.

Home- School Agreement A copy of this agreement is available on the school website. It sets out clearly the partnership that is required to fully support your child in school.

Child Protection

Policy on care and control

School has a responsibility for the welfare of all pupils and has a Child Protection Policy which can be viewed by parents. School has a duty to refer any suspected child

If staff become aware of, or have a need to become involved in, situations where a child may be at risk of hurting themselves, or others,

abuse to the investigative agencies in the interests of the child.

or the behaviour of a child seriously disrupts good order, staff may need to take steps to intervene

PTFA We have an enthusiastic, lively and very involved PTFA. Besides ‘fundraising’ we have social and educational events.

The Chairperson is Mrs Emma Maano. Committee meetings are open to all parents, staff and friends of St Peter’s.

Information regarding events is published by the PTFA members through the school website and newsletter.

physically. In such circumstances staff will follow the school’s policy for dealing with such situations.

Any parent wishing to view this policy may do so on request.

Homework The main focus of home activities at KS1 will be on reading, phonics, writing skills and number, with science and other subjects added as children move up through KS2. At St Peter’s we have adopted a Creative Homework approach. Pupils are encouraged to respond creatively to questions in their homework journals.

Children should either read to their parent, or listen to their parents reading, for between 10 and 20 minutes a day. Number games and tasks will be set each week to support learning in the classroom. As a a guide the following is recommended: Reception: Homework is optional. Reading is recommended each evening with a further activity to take 1 hour over the whole week.

Year 1 & 2: 1 hour

Year 3 & 4: 1.5 hours per week

Year 5 & 6: 1.5 hours per week

Whilst homework is a valued activity, it is also important that children are given the opportunity to join activities after school such as Brownies, Cubs, swimming, dancing, football etc. Therefore provision is made to allow for homework to be completed over a weeks duration.

As parents we encourage you to: • Provide a reasonably peaceful, suitable place for doing homework; • Make it clear to your child/children that you value homework, and support the school in explaining how it can help them make progress; • Expect deadlines to be met and check that they are; • Give praise for the completion of homework.

School Uniform

Girls Uniform

We do have a school uniform so that everyone can see that your child belongs to St Peter’s Catholic Primary School. We recommend the following school wear and have included some pictures that represent an acceptable standard of uniform.

Grey pinafore or skirt or grey flannelled trousers.

Please note that ties, jumpers, cardigans, polo shirts, sport’s wear, waterproof coats and book bags are available from;

School tie

Top Marque 74 Park Road, Lytham St Annes FY8 1QX

Royal blue jumper or cardigan (with crest and gold edging) Sensible black shoes (no trainers please)

White Shirt Socks - white or grey OR grey tights Summer Term A blue and white gingham dress

Boy’s Uniform Grey flannelled trousers or shorts Royal blue jumper (with crest and gold edging) Sensible black shoes (no trainers please) School tie White shirt Socks - grey.

Summer Term - short sleeved yellow polo shirt

School Meals The school has its own kitchen and all meals are cooked on the premises. As the present your child is entitled to a free school meal (KS1), as part of the Government’s universal free school meal initiative, which provides a free school meal for all pupils in KS1 For KS2 children school meals must be paid for in advance, usually on Mondays. For pupils who prefer to bring sandwiches, provision is made in in the hall following the school

their dinner. there are always at least two choices for each part of their lunch. We think that lunchtimes are a very important school occasion where the children an sit with their friends and enjoy a ‘family’ atmosphere. It is important that your give at least half a terms notice if you want to change from school meals.

Your child may choose to bring a packed lunch, rather than have school meals. Could you please observe the following to save any problems;

meals.

Packed lunch boxes to be named on the outside.

Mrs Fontana cooks excellent meals for us. The children collect a tray and are encouraged to make a choice for

All drinks need to be in a cardboard carton, supplied with a straw and

stored in the packed plastic lunch box - no flasks, cans or fizzy rinks please.

Dinner money is collected in advance on the first school day of each week. Parents are able to pay for dinners and other school items using the online Scopay system. If preferred monies or cheques can be placed in a sealed envelope clearly labelled. Cheques should be made payable to ‘St Peter’s School Fund.’

School Absence

Medical Emergencies

School Medical Checks

School is legally bound to report

When we suspect illness or there is an

Dental inspections are carried out from

unauthorised absences. Therefore, it is important that if your child needs to be absent from school at any time you:

emergency, parents are contacted usually by telephone.

time to time, but parents are advised to make private arrangements for regular checks.

Telephone or use the absence notification tool on the website or school app, on the first morning of the absence before 8.45 am.

You send a letter of explanation for the absence on your child’s rest day back at school.

For dental and medical appointments it is necessary to end in the appointment card in advance of the appointment.

Any child who needs it leave school for an appointment must be collected from school by an adult

In case of an emergency it is absolutely essential that we have a contact number. Hospitals are reluctant to treat children if a parent is not present.

Medicines If your child does need to have prescribed medicines during their school day, a support assistant will look after it. An adult should take it to the school office and complete the medicine form at 8.55am. The instructions for use should be clearly marked on the bottle. Only medicines prescribed by a doctor should be brought to school - no commercially bought medicines please.

The school nursing team will carry out checks including sight and weight targeted at specific year groups.

Immunisations are sometimes administered in school. Parents will be informed and permission sought before any checks/immunisations take place. Parents will be contacted if there are any resulting concerns.

Communication with Parents Please check the website regularly. Your class teacher will post information and photographs reflecting events and learning of the week. We have a school app which can be downloaded from you App Store for free. (Schudio and then choose St Peter’s Lytham.) You can also follow us on Twitter @stpeterslytham All forthcoming events are published on the school calendar on the website. A Newsletter is published each week and is sent via email, this gives details of forthcoming events and important school information.

St Peter’s has an open-door policy and we are always willing to meet to discuss your child’s progress or any concerns.

Message from the Headteacher I thank you for choosing St Peter’s Catholic Primary School for your child. St Peter’s is a happy and successful school and we look forward to welcoming your child into our school family.

If you have any other questions please contact me through the school office, or the Contact Us section of the school website, to make an appointment.

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