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Notes for Parents
Dear Parents
I am delighted that you have chosen Stanfield, Merchant Taylors' School
for your child and hope that through a close and happy co-operation
between us, he or she will get the very best from the education offered.
We look forward to welcoming you very soon.
Yours sincerely
Miss E Lynan
Headmistress
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The Aims of Merchant Taylors’ Schools
• Maintain the Schools’ position as one of the North How we will meet our aims:
West’s leading academic schools. • Employ high quality staff with the appropriate
• In addition to providing an academic, disciplined professional skills, experience and qualifications.
education, to offer a diverse range of extra-curricular • Continue to develop first class, up to date facilities.
activities, so that pupils leave as rounded, confident
• Maintain the Bursary Fund (available from Year 7).
and balanced members of society, well-prepared for
further education and their careers.
• Maintain the Schools’ social mix and enable as many
pupils as possible from disadvantaged backgrounds
to benefit from the Schools’ academic success and
wide range of activities through the Schools’ own
assisted places scheme.
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Our Code of Conduct
The basis of all good behaviour is a need for mutual
respect. Pupils attending Stanfield have a right
to expect a well-ordered environment, which is
conducive to learning. The essence lies in the 3C’s.
All pupils need to be aware of their own behaviour
Care, and mindful of the needs and feelings of others.
All pupils are expected to:
Courtesy & • Be polite at all times, using ‘please’ and
‘thank you’.
Consideration • Be courteous and considerate; opening doors
for others and behaving in an orderly manner
around school.
• Always be honest and tell the truth.
• Treat others with consideration and sensitivity
• Be careful with school property and anything
belonging to another pupil.
• Be aware of their own behaviour and not spoil
anyone’s games.
• Take pride in their appearance and try to be neat
and tidy, wearing their uniform correctly.
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Information for Parents The Standard Terms and Conditions provide parents with detailed information concerning the Schools’ rules and regulations. Children do best when parents and professionals work together. This involves regular two way communication and a sharing of information to make sure that your child achieves the most he/she can at all stages of his/her education. These notes are intended to give parents an overview of the new Early Years’ Foundation Stage Strategy, whilst offering other relevant information and answers to frequently asked questions. 6
Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) What can parents and carers do?
The EYFS will be the stage your child is in when they Parents and carers are their children’s first teachers.
attend a nursery or a childminder’s home between When they are with you, learning can happen at any
birth and the age of five at the end of Reception. time and anywhere, for example when:
The EYFS is based on four important principles: • Being generous with praise and cuddles
• Reading a variety of things together
A Unique Child
• Playing games, singing nursery rhymes
Every child is a competent learner from birth who can
be resilient, capable, confident and self-assured. • Talking about what you can see in the park or
on the street
Positive Relationships
• Counting the stairs as you go up or down
Children learn to be strong and independent from a
base of loving and secure relationships with parents
and/or a key person. Why are the years from birth to five so special?
Enabling Environments The years from birth to five see the greatest growth
The environment plays a key role in supporting and and learning for all children.
extending children’s development and learning. Children need:
Learning and Development • Good health
Children develop and learn in different ways • To be happy
and at different rates and all areas of Learning
• To feel safe
and Development are equally important and
interconnected. • To be successful
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Early learning is the key to your child’s future and There are then four specific areas, through which
families make the greatest difference at this stage. the three prime areas are strengthened and applied.
The specific areas are:
The EYFS Curriculum
• literacy;
There are seven important and inter-connected
areas of learning and development which shape • mathematics;
our curriculum. Three areas have been identified as • understanding the world;
being crucial to embed and build future learning upon. • expressive arts and design.
These prime areas are:
• communication and language;
• physical development;
• personal, social and emotional development.
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Communication and language development involves Mathematics involves providing children with
giving children opportunities to experience a rich opportunities to develop and improve their skills
language environment; to develop their confidence in counting, understanding and using numbers,
and skills in expressing themselves; and to speak and calculating simple addition and subtraction problems;
listen in a range of situations. and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.
Physical development involves providing opportunities Understanding the World involves guiding children
for young children to be active and interactive; and to to make sense of their physical world and their
develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. community through opportunities to explore, observe
Children must also be helped to understand the and find out about people, places, technology and the
importance of physical activity, and to make healthy environment.
choices in relation to food.
Expressive Arts and Design involves enabling
Personal, social and emotional development involves children to explore and play with a wide range of
helping children to develop a positive sense of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities
themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas
and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music,
and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand movement, dance, role-play, and design
appropriate behaviour in groups; and to have and technology.’
confidence in their own abilities.
Literacy development involves encouraging children
to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and
write. Children must be given access to a wide range
of reading materials (books, poems, and other written
materials) to ignite their interest.
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Daily Routines
Lesson Time 11.45am – 1.00pm
Lunch
8.40am
Registration 1.00pm – 3.20pm
(3.10pm on Fridays)
9.00 – 9.30am Learning and play , 7 Areas of
Phonics – teaching of letters and Learning (indoor and outdoor)
sounds to support literacy skills.
9.30 – 11.45am
Learning and play, 7 Areas of
Learning (indoor and outdoor),
Snack time
During the morning sessions, there is greater focus on Literacy and
Mathematics based activities, although, all 7 areas are inter-connected and
opportunities are provided across the curriculum throughout the day.
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What to do if...
My child is ill
Absence – reason for Breakfast Club and After School Care
When a pupil is absent through illness, we ask that you Breakfast Club and After School Care are available
contact school via the School Office on 0151 924 1506 from Monday to Friday, 7.30am until 8.20am and
or via email at s.avery@merchanttaylors.com 3.30pm until 6.00pm respectively (term time only).
To book, please speak to a member or the After Care
Illness team or phone Mrs Avery in the office on
Parents are asked to report at once to the Head any 0151 924 1506. A leaflet is available on request.
case of infectious disease and any instance where
they know that their child has been in contact with Newsletters
a case of infectious disease. Parents are strongly Parents receive a weekly newsletter detailing the
urged to watch closely any child who has been in week’s activities and giving advance notice of
contact with infectious diseases, and to keep them forthcoming events /dates. These are distributed
at home if they seem at all unwell or show suspicious through Firefly our learning platform.
symptoms. Please do not send your child in to school Lunches
until 48 hours have elapsed after the last episode of All children stay for school lunch. The cost of these
vomiting or diarrhoea. This is to prevent the spread is added to the fees account sent to you prior to the
of infections. beginning of each term. The kitchen keeps a record of
If your child becomes ill whilst in our care, we will all special dietary requirements.
make them as comfortable as possible, isolate them Snacks
from the other children if necessary and reassure them. A healthy snack will be provided for your child whist
We will contact you immediately and continue to care they are in the Reception classes. There is an
for your child until you arrive. additional cost for this which will be added to the fees
We are happy to administer medication, however, account each term. Milk will also be provided and
cannot do so, unless we receive from parents, prior children have free access to water as and when
written permission for each and every medicine. required. You may provide your child with a bottle of
water if desired.
Absence – permission for Official Administration
All absences from school, other than illness, must All pupils are expected to attend morning assembly
have prior agreement of the Head. School holidays and religious instruction unless personally excused by
are generous and requests for extra holidays are the Head of Stanfield, to whom written application for
not encouraged. The school policy is not to set exemption should be made.
work in advance for pupils in these circumstances.
Please complete a ‘Request for Absence Sheet’ from It would be appreciated if parents would notify the
Mrs Avery. Head in writing of any change of address or telephone
number. It is also essential for the School Office to
Attendance have a work/mobile telephone number if parents have
School begins at 8.45am, registration is at 8.40am. to be contacted in an emergency during the school
Pupils are not allowed into the school building prior to day.
8.20 am. The school day ends at 3.20pm Monday to
Thursday and 3.10pm on Fridays.
13Parental Responsibility House System
In the interests of your child’s welfare and for legal The School Houses are:
reasons, the school must have accurate and up to date
Sapphire
records on the following:
Emerald
• Who your child lives with and which of these people Topaz
has parental responsibility Garnet
• Whether there are any other people with parental On entry to the school each child is put in a House.
responsibility who live apart from your child There is a house point system in which merits and
• Whether there are any court orders which may merit badges are presented to those children gaining
have made changes to those who have parental the most points every Friday. In Reception classes,
responsibility or which impose restrictions on the children are awarded pompoms which are counted up
exercise of parental responsibility. at the end of each week!
School is closed in emergencies Safeguarding Children
If the school cannot open, as a result of heavy and As part of the Schools’ safeguarding children policy,
unpredicted snowfalls during the night or sudden and it is our duty of care to promote all pupils’ welfare.
severe worsening of existing conditions, we shall try The aim of the policy is to ensure that pupils grow
to warn parents early in the morning on local radio, up in circumstances consistent with the provision
Radio Merseyside and Radio City. Also check the of safe and effective care. Following the guidelines
schools’ website for regular updates. published in September 2016, Keeping Children Safe
in Education, Merchant Taylors’ Schools will follow
Pupils’ Progress in School procedures if there are concerns with a specific
We have an ‘Open-Door’ policy and parents are pupil’s welfare. After discussion with, and advice from,
encouraged to liaise with their child’s form teacher external agencies, it may be necessary to refer a pupil
/ key person on a regular basis, to share information to the relevant Local Authority Social Care Department.
about their progress. We also hold two Parents’
Evenings per year and there is a written report at the The Social Services Department, for the area in which
end of the academic year for all children, detailing the school is situated in this instance is:
progress against the seven areas of learning. If for any
Social Care Customer Access Team
problems Parents should contact the class teacher in
Merton House, Stanley Road, Bootle
the first instance. However if it is a major problem,
Liverpool, L20 3UU
parents should make an appointment to see the Head.
Tel: 0151 934 3737
Access to Records
Emergency Duty Team (EDT) – out of hours:
Parents can have free access to developmental
0151 920 8234
records about their child, for example, the pupil profile.
Written requests must be made for personal files on Data Protection
the children and providers must take into account data The School is required to process relevant personal
protection rules when disclosing records that refer to data regarding current, past or prospective pupils and
third parties. their parents or guardians as part of its operation and
shall take all reasonable steps to do so. Processing
may include obtaining, recording, holding, disclosing,
destroying or otherwise using data. The Merchant
Taylors’ Schools’ pupils’ data protection policy is
available on request from the Headmistress.
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Fees
Merchant Taylors’ is a fee-paying day school and Sibling discount
the tuition fees, as of September 2020, are as Please refer to fee discounts on next page.
follows:
Deposits Extras
Please see the School’s Terms and Conditions for • Bus service - between £290 - £381 per term
information on how and when the Acceptance • Lunches
Deposit and the Additional Deposit (if paid) • Lower Sixth to Upper Sixth - £214
may be refunded.
Acceptance Deposit £300.00 For further details please see https://www.
Payable on acceptance of the merchanttaylors.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/
place offered. This will be held on Merchant-Taylors-bus-fees.pdf.
account and refunded at the end of
your child’s education at Merchant
English as an Additional Language
Taylors’ School.
These lessons are compulsory for overseas students
Additional Deposit £3,911.00 attending Sixth Form.
Payable in addition to the
Acceptance Deposit by the parents Please see the School’s Terms and Conditions for
of pupils whose normal residence further information about the payment of Fees
is outside the United Kingdom. and extras.
Fees per Term
Payment
Infant School £2,837.00 Fees are payable on demand in advance on or before
the first day of term.
Junior School £2,924.00 Direct debit is the only method of payment for fees
and there will be no charge to join the scheme. We
Senior School £3,911.00
offer two options for paying Direct Debit:
One payment per term (3 per year)
Lunches Your account will be charged with the full term’s
Lunches for pupils from Reception to Year 11 fees on:
(inclusive) are compulsory and in addition to tuition
fees.
• 1st September (Autumn Term)
• Reception to Year 2 - £187 • 1st January (Spring Term)
• Year 3 to Year 11 - £214 • 1st May (Summer Term)
• Lunch is excluded from the fees for pupils in Year
11 to Upper Sixth. Further details are set out below 12 monthly payments on the 1st day of each month
in the Extras section. commencing in September.
Buses
Bus fees are excluded from all fees.
Further details are set out below in the Extras section.
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Fee Discounts Music Lessons
The School offers a sibling discount for children During induction sessions there will be an opportunity
with a brother and/or sister already in the School. to discuss individual tuition for musical instruments.
The discount applies to the tuition fee only and may
Withdrawal from Music Lessons: Please note that
be varied by the School at any time. The current sibling
written notice for withdrawal from individual music
discount is 10% on a second and third child with the
lessons must be given for ten lessons prior to finishing
same parents, and a 20% discount on a fourth and
at any point in an academic year.
subsequent children with the same parents. Sibling
discount does not apply to
Policies and Procedures
overseas students.
The following policies can be downloaded from the
Should any pupil(s) within the family be in receipt School website www.merchanttaylors.com
of any other form of financial assistance (excluding or sent to parents on request.
Harrison Scholarships) then the pupil(s) will not be
• Safeguarding Children and Child Protection Policy
included within the scope of the sibling discount.
For pupils in receipt of Academic or Sports • Admissions Policy
Scholarships, who also qualify for a sibling discount, • Equal Opportunities Policy
such discount will be awarded at the Governor’s/ • Health and Safety Policy
Head’s absolute discretion. • The Complaints Procedure
Notice of Withdrawal There are also a number of policies available on the
In accordance with the terms of the agreement signed website which are particular to each of the schools
by parents before their daughters enter the school, such as:
a full and complete term’s notice in writing should • Curriculum Policy
be sent to the Head of Admissions or the Director of
Finance and Operations before a girl is withdrawn • Anti-Bullying Policy
from the school. Failure to give a full and complete • Rewards and Sanctions Policy
term’s notice will result in fees in lieu of notice being • Management of Educational Visits Policy
payable.
The Chair of Governors of Merchant Taylors’ Schools
is Mr Philip Marshall and he can be contacted via
Bursar’s Office, Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School,
Crosby, Liverpool L23 0QP.
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Parent Teacher Association PE uniform – infants
The Committee of the PTA is a channel for White crested polo shirt
communication of ideas concerning all aspects of Navy blue shorts
school life. The Association also organises several Velcro trainers (outdoor PE)
events during the year including a summer fayre, nearly
Black pumps (indoor PE)
new uniform sales and social functions. For further
information contact the PTA through their website or Pump bag
speak to a member of staff. Crested school tracksuit
Uniform – infants Hair
Winter uniform - girls All long hair must be tied back including the boys!
Navy blue school skirt – knee length
Earrings
Long sleeved school blouse Children are not allowed to wear earrings when
School tie taking part in games lessons. Please make sure that
School pullover (navy with pale blue stripes) any piercing takes place at the start of the Summer
Navy tights or navy knee length socks holidays so that you are able to remove your child’s
Sensible black or blue shoes (no ballet - type pumps) earrings on the day of PE lessons.
School hat with badge
School Shop
School blazer
Monkhouse Schoolwear Shop is an independent
Navy blue duffle coat OR navy blue waterproof jacket
concern run by F R Monkhouse Ltd, specialist school
School scarf (optional) suppliers, who operate in several other leading schools
Summer uniform in the North of England.
Blue striped summer dress The address for the shop is
Navy blue cardigan 80 Coronation Road, Crosby,Liverpool L23 5RH
Summer boater Tel: 0151-924-0975
Legionnaires cap Opening hours will be as follows during term time:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 09:00 – 17:00
Uniform – infants
Saturday 09:30 – 12:30
Boys
Grey shorts (long if very cold) Opening hours during school holidays can be found
Long sleeved pale blue shirt (short sleeved in summer) at www.monkhouse.com
School tie
School pullover (navy with pale blue stripes)
Grey socks with blue hoops
Sensible black or blue shoes
School cap with badge
School blazer
Navy blue duffle coat OR navy blue waterproof jacket
School scarf (optional)
Legionnaires cap (in summer)
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