St. Matthew's School

MISSION STATEMENT

St. Matthew’s School’s Mission is to:

• Promote high educational expectations within a caring Christian Community
• Celebrate success, friendship and a love of learning.
• Build for the future

AIMS OF THE SCHOOL

We aim to:

• Provide a safe, happy and inclusive environment where each individual child is valued
• Offer a range of opportunities of quality learning which motivate and enthuse and lead to high standards
• Educate children in the Christian faith, nurturing individual’s awareness of spirituality, whilst respecting other faiths
• Work together as a team towards common goals for the benefit of all children
• Promote clear and consistent boundaries of social behaviour which foster self-esteem
• Work together in partnership with parents, the Church and the wider community
• Teach key skills to enable children to fulfil their potential in future life

School reopens  

School reopens for the children in Years 1,2,3,4,5,6 on Monday 6th September at 8.50am. Children should wait in the infant (Reception & Yrs 1&2) or junior (Yrs 3,4,5,6) playground. Teachers will be out in the playgrounds to meet the children and take them to the classroom at 8.50am. At the end of the school day the teachers will bring the children back out to the playground to meet parents.

Parents of children starting reception class in September have been informed of the starting date for your child.

Nursery children start back on Wednesday 8th September at 8.55am or 12.15pm

Please  make sure that, on their return to school, your child wears smart school uniform (named please!), with shoes, not trainers.

The children in Years 3,4,5 and 6 should also have their own, named, pencil case with a pencil, handwriting pen, rubber, sharpener, coloured pencils etc. Children  must also have PE kit - blue shorts and white t-shirt and plimsolls/trainers.