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The school collected their seed4kids kits today, thank you to Treebourne. We shall keep you posted on the growth of the trees.

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Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome to our latest St Mary's Newsletter. Thank you to all parents/carers who completed the parents’ questionnaire last term, 97% of parents/carers reported that their child is happy at St Mary’s. 97% of parent/carers reported that their child feels safe at school. 97% of parents/carers would recommend St Mary’s to other parents. Your feedback is always welcome and helpful in continuing to improve our communications and partnership working. This term saw our KS3 pupils having the opportunity to participate in a residential activity trip. The week provided a busy schedule of outdoor activities and 3 nights away from home. The pupils were amazing, they embraced the activities with confidence and resilience. The staff team were astonished by the pupils personal achievements and their behaviour throughout the trip, they retuned to school at the end of week suitably tired! This term St Mary’s received our Ofsted Reports for both Education and Social Care (Residential). We feel the reports really capture the ethos of the school, our hardworking staff team and most importantly our wonderful young people who make St Mary’s what it is. The outcomes represent such significant improvement since the school was last inspected in February 2019, we are so proud of the achievement and how amazing the pupils were during the inspections. Our Easter provision was a huge success and pupils enjoyed a range of exciting activities. We are delighted to share that we will also be offering provision for two week over the summer holidays, further details on this will be sent out shortly. We are really excited by next term as it is packed full of events including; swimming galas, sports days, leavers prom, leavers assemblies and we are holding our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and 100 years of St Mary’s celebration day. I would like to take the opportunity to wish you and your family a very happy half term and I look forward to welcoming pupils back to school on Tuesday 7th June (residential pupils the evening of Monday 6th June).

Inspection dates: 22 and 23 March 2022

Dear Parents and Carers, We have had a fantastic, exciting and full Spring term! St Mary’s have participated in, Science week, World Maths Day, National Careers week, sports competitions and attended a Careers fair off site. During these events the pupils behaved impeccably making St Mary’s very proud of them and enabling us to take part in more activities in the future. We celebrated world book day on Thursday 3rd March with the pupils dressing up as their favourite book characters, there were some incredible costumes, we obviously have some very talented parents/carers! On Friday 18th March we had a non school uniform day to show our support for Red Nose Day and the Ukraine Appeal, we are so grateful to you all for your generosity and enabling us to raise £334.74 for Ukraine and £120 for Comic Relief, thank you. In amongst all of these wonderful events we have celebrated this term we had an inspection visit from Ofsted for the Residential Provision followed by an Inspection in School and College just over a week later! Our pupils meet with the inspection teams during this process and we are so proud of each and everyone of them for their behaviour and showing the inspection team what wonderful young people they are! Over the Easter break we are really pleased to be offering Easter Provision again for the first week, it will be full of fun Easter related activities for the pupils! I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support and to wish you a wonderful , safe and happy Easter. We look forward to welcoming the Residential pupils back in the evening of Monday 18th April and day pupils on Tuesday 19th April.

Inspection dates: 8 to 10 March 2022

In January, we had a Monitoring Visit from Ofsted inspectors. This was not a graded inspection, although the inspection team identified several positive developments since the last full inspection at St Mary's.

In December, we had a Monitoring Visit from Ofsted inspectors. This was not a graded inspection, although the inspection team identified several positive developments since the last full inspection at St Mary's. Ofsted Monitoring Inspection

“In just two years the staff have gained Oscar’s trust, made him more confident and helped him move forward. He has made some lovely friendships with other children because they all understand each other. St Mary’s have given us back our Oscar and we feel the future is bright for him.”