Latest News from St Martin's School
Our annual reporting day will be held on Monday 14th November 2016. During this day pupils and parent(s) will be required to attend an interview with their form tutor in order to discuss their academic and pastoral progress. Please see the attached letter for further details.
St Martin's Sixth Form Open Evening will be held on Thursday, 10th November from 5-7.30pm.
An opportunity to view our new Sixth Form Centre and discuss A level and BTEC subjects with staff.
Apologies for the disruption to the catering provision at lunchtimes.
Year 11 mock exams will take place from Tuesday 15th November to Friday 18th November.
On Tuesday, 18th October pupils in Year 7 and Sixth Formers took part in Restart a Heart. This national event gave pupils the opportunity to be shown how to give CPR by Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust staff and volunteers.
The training was part of Restart a Heart Day, which aims to give people the skills to deal with someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest.
The School Health Service at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) requires lists of all pupils in Year 7 to include, name, DOB, gender and address. The information required is to be uploaded to the Health Board via a secure web portal.
Schools have a responsibility to inform parents that information relating to their children will be shared with ABUHB for this purpose. Please could you contact the school by Friday, 14th October if you do not want your child's details (name, DoB, gender and address) to be shared with ABUHB.
Following a visit by her majesty's inspectors of schools on 14th, 15th and 16th September 2016, I am very proud to inform you that St Martin's School has been removed from the category of 'requiring significant improvement' that it was placed in when the inspectors visited the school in 2014. For further details please see the attached letter from Mr L Jarvis, Headteacher
Today's Year 8 football match (Wednesday 5th October 2016) is away at Cardinal Newman and pupils will be back at school by 5pm.
To notify us of your intention to attend this event, please contact us via email stmca@caerphilly.gov.uk, telephone 02920858050 or letter handed to your child's tutor.
Please be advised that we have been contacted by the police and asked to raise concerns in relation to cars dropping off students on Mountain Road on double yellow lines.
The police have stated that they will be increasing their patrols in this area and issuing fixed penalty notices.