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"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

St Martin de Porres School is opening its doors to new families on two occasions this Autumn:
OPEN EVENING - Tuesday 6th November - 4 to 5pm
OPEN MORNING - Thursday 15th November - 9am to 12pm
Please encourage your neighbours and friends with children to come and visit our school.

October is the month of the Rosary when we contemplate the main events of Jesus’ life while reciting the Our Father, Hail Mary and the Glory Be prayer.
We began on Monday 1st at 2.45 in the School Hall. You are welcome to come and join the children in the hall for this beautiful, centuries old form of prayer on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

We are very happy to announce that our School House is now opened to parents every Tuesday morning before Mass for coffee and a friendly chat. The side gate being locked, please come through the school reception.

It is of utmost importance that when you cannot pick up your child yourself afterschool, you call the school before 3pm to let us know who is going to pick them up. Thank you.

Newsletter 3 was issued on Friday 12th October.
Our next newsletter will be issued on Thursday 25th October. Please do continue to share with us any of your children’s special achievements in anything that they may participate in outside of school.

…to all the families, the staff and the PTA who contributed in making our Coffee Morning, on Friday 28th September, a real success. Thanks to your generosity, we collected no less than £319.10!
A very special thanks goes to Mrs Surinder Kaur, Manraj’s mum, who donated 2 beautiful hampers that became prizes for the raffle.

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Thanks to Mrs Kausar’s hard work and commitment our after-school club has proved very popular last 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 this year. The cost at the moment is £5 per hour which enables us to break even.

If you would be interested for this academic year 2018-2019, 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.

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