Wednesday 11th May,

Dear Parents and Carers,

TIMINGS OF SECURITY MEASURE IN THE SCHOOL GROUNDS

I am writing as a polite reminder regarding access to school grounds at both drop off times and collection at the end of the day.

For the Junior School , we ask that no one enters school grounds until 8.30am in the morning either as a family or a lone pupil. In the afternoon we also ask that no one is on site prior to 3.10pm.

For both schools , parents should vacate the school property within 5 minutes unless they have reason to be speaking with a member of staff.

These measures are in place for security and safeguarding reasons.

This also means that no one should remain or re-enter the grounds of St Philomena’s High School outside of these permitted times. The  opening and closing times of the external gates are also being reviewed and you may find a slight variance to this due to tightening of security procedure on the whole site.

We ask respectfully that you follow these requests as we continue to look after the school grounds whilst considering  our safeguarding measures to protect our pupils.

Thank you for your co operation and please remember to pass on this communication to  your families and childminders too for their convenience as this will be from immediate effect.

Mrs S A Hulme MA NPQH NLE

Executive Headteacher