All are welcome here to walk with Jesus as we love, learn and flourish.
At St Mary’s we value all children equally and do our utmost to welcome everyone into our school by ensuring that we have a fully accessible and appropriate environment and curriculum for all our pupils and parents/carers – regardless of any particular need that they have.
Our Special Educational Needs Coordinator is Mrs Kerrie Davis, she looks after the school’s policy and also checks that all children identified as needing additional support are catered for well. Mrs Davis is also a specialist teacher for children with SEND and provides tuition for our pupils with additional educational needs.
If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact us. Our class teachers are always happy to talk and, if you need a more in-depth chat, Miss Halstead and Mrs Davis will both be happy to see you.
Lancashire County Council has a responsibility to provide a range of Short Breaks Services designed to assist individuals who provide care for children with disabilities to enable them to continue to do so, or to do so more effectively by giving them breaks from their caring role.
Please see the attached document which provides information about the range of services and support available to you and your family and how to access it.
Please check your child meets the criteria before you register.
Each eligible child or young person can access up to 78 hours of Break Time activities and groups each year which can be used between one or more Break Time providers.
There will be a minimum contribution from parents and carers towards Break Time activities and groups of £2 per hour. This is in addition to any specific costs for activities, entrance fees or transport costs to activities.
For more information, please click here. Or to read Lancashire’s full statement you can follow this link.
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Following Boris Johnson’s 8pm announcement we now know that as of midnight tonight the country has entered a new period of Lockdown, a Lockdown that includes the closure of school.
School will be open for the children of Key Workers and for pupils who are deemed vulnerable. All pupils will be provided with work in order for them to keep learning.
Tonight’s announcement was very short notice for you as parents and also for us as a Staff. Tomorrow, by 11am there will be three tasks on the school website for each Class to complete as their Tuesday learning. However, School will be closed to ALL pupils tomorrow.
Staff, however, will be in school preparing for the rest of the Lockdown. Through tomorrow we will prepare school to make it safe for Key worker pupils and vulnerable children to return.
We will send out a form for you to apply for a place in the Keyworker Bubbles and we will let you know more about how children will be learning remotely. We will do our very best to re-open to Key Worker children and vulnerable pupils by Wednesday.
I am aware of how difficult this is for you all, School closing creates a multitude of problems for everyone but data surrounding this awful disease dictates that this is a necessary step. As ever, the safety and health of everyone must be a priority.
Thank you for your continued support and we will be in frequent contact over the next few days.
Many thanks
Claire Halstead