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welcome to ST MARTIN DE PORRES CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

"Through Jesus, we achieve our very best"

St Martin de Porres is a voluntary aided Roman Catholic school where the teachings of Christ form the core of our work. We aim to provide high quality teaching and learning for all our members so that they are able to recognise and fulfil the gifts and potential given to them by God.

We pride ourselves on being a school which is warm, friendly and supportive. An environment where all can flourish and achieve success.

The school was built at the end of the 1960's and takes 30 children into the reception class each September. Application forms for school places and our admission criteria are available from the Parents Tab, Key Information page on this website.

St Martin’s Prayer

Dear St Martin,

Your whole life was committed
to looking after the sick and needy
as well as the animals upon the earth.
You showed us a wonderful example
of the teachings of Jesus.
Bless all of us in this school family
and help us all to continue to follow your example.
St Martin, pray for us.

A Child’s view

I like St. Martin de Porres, it’s the best of all,
A helping hand with any incident or fall,
Including everyone, leaving no one behind,
Oh! And don’t forget the teachers are really kind,
There are lots of subjects and activities to do,
And the uniform is really smart too,
The dinners are tasty made by the kind cook,
If you come to this school you’ve got really good luck!

Children at St. Martin's achieve high academic standards. OfSTED described the standard of behaviour and relationships at the school as outstanding.

LATEST NEWS:

Newsletter 16 was issued on Thursday 14th May.
Our next newsletter will be issued on Friday 29th June. Please do continue to share with us any of your children’s special achievements in anything that they may participate in outside of school.

Please remember to check your child’s bag regularly for letters.

The summer term is always incredibly busy. Summer trips have been organised for each class and the dates listed within the diary dates on the last newsletter. Letters have been distributed to your children over past weeks – please do keep an eye out for these and check book bags regularly. Your assistance with prompt payments will be much appreciated.

Miss Haydon will be busy organising many competitions over the coming weeks. Please look out for letters after the half-term break which will detail which after-school clubs will be running.

Thanks to Mrs Kausar’s hard work and commitment our after-school club has proved very popular this year and a number of parents have asked whether we could extend the hours to 5.30pm or 6pm. In the past there has not been enough demand to run the club to these times without making a loss but we are hopeful that there may be enough parents who would benefit from longer hours to make it viable next year. The cost at the moment is £5 per hour which enables us to break even.

If you would be interested for September 2018, please email enquiry@stmartindeporres.bham.sch.uk stating whether you would use after-school club until a) 5.30pm or b) 6pm. As soon as we know if there is sufficient uptake, we will inform you to help you plan ahead.

Mrs Kausar is hoping to run a lunchtime book club from September for our Key Stage 1 children. If you have any age appropriate pre-loved books that you wish to donate, please bring these to the school office. Thank you.

Last week, the children brought home class and group photographs - please check your child’s bag.

To help with preparation for our Summer Fair the PTA are asking children to bring in the following items on each of the Friday’s in June:

Friday 8th June:
Friday 15th June:
Friday 22nd June:
Friday 29th June:

Pre-loved toys and books
Filled bags of sweets/stationery – bags are provided in advance by the PTA. Bottles for the bottle tombola
Strawberries & Cakes
Children can wear trainers on each of these days.

General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) came into force on May 25th. You received a letter recently about how we use data in school and asking for consent for the photographs we take for the website. Please take time to read through this and return the consent upon our return from the half-term break.
Thank you already for all the forms that have been returned.

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