Onsite Safety
We would like to remind parents about safety on and around the School site.
At the start of the day, the safe ‘drop-off’ point for students arriving by car is at the rear of the School in the car park accessed via Dixton Road. Please use the drop-off zone (the vehicle to pavement area on the left) and then exit the school site. Please do not park in the parking bays to drop off your child/children.
Students can be safely collected from the car park at the end of the school day from 3.20pm, once home to school transport vehicles have exited.
If you need to park and come into School for any reason, please use the visitor car park located adjacent to the Leisure Centre, off Old Dixton Road (we can buzz you in) and report to Reception on arrival. Please do not park on The Burgage in front of the school as this can impede access for our neighbours or for emergency service vehicles. Please note the Leisure Centre car park is not part of the school and is for Leisure Centre customers only.
Healthcare
As the season of coughs and colds is upon us, we’d just like to remind parents/carers of the system at MCS.
If your child feels unwell during the day, they should speak to the teacher taking their lesson who will call someone from the PSO team to talk to them, find out what is wrong and liaise with Healthcare. Our Healthcare Support Worker will talk to the student and call home to request that a student is collected, if necessary.
Please remind your child of this process – students should not be calling/messaging home directly, either during lesson time or during break. Our system means that we are quickly aware that a student is unwell, that we know where to locate them and that we can then ensure they are somewhere comfortable and supported whilst awaiting collection.
If, however, your child contacts you, please contact the school (01600 775177), explain the situation and we will then locate and speak to your child. As mentioned above, Healthcare will contact you if your child needs to be collected.
Appointments during the School Day
If your child has an appointment outside school during the day, could you please let the school know in advance (01600 775177). This means that it is recorded at Reception and they can be signed out quickly, avoiding unnecessary delays. You may also wish to give your child a note to show their teacher, who will release them from class.
If we are not aware of a request to leave school, either via a message or a note, we are obliged to call parents/carers to confirm a child is leaving/being met at Reception. If we are unable to make contact with a parent/carer, we cannot allow a student to leave the school.
Your ongoing support is very much appreciated.
Following a request from a parent, we have asked our website provider to add a subscribe button to our calendar, to enable parents to download it to their own devices.
These bats are specifically for frequent use and are far more substantial than our original ones. However, this does mean that we will be asking students for the deposit of a phone or equivalent before they can take them and the student who leaves the deposit will be the one responsible for returning the bats/ball to Reception.
