Air Pollution 

Six borough and district councils in Surrey are offering a free service called airTEXT to warn residents about upcoming air pollution. You can sign up for alerts by text, email, or voicemail which launches at the start of October 2024. Elmbridge is one of these areas, so please use the link to sign up if you are interested.

Coming up at St James: 

Mufti Day

The Friends of St James will be running a fundraising Mufti Day next Friday, on the 25th October. Children are invited to come into school in their own clothes for the day for a voluntary donation. 

Reading Workshop

Tuesday 19th November 2024 at 2.45pm - Miss Boyle and Mrs Dodd will be holding a short workshop to help you understand the best ways you can help your child with their reading at home. This workshop will help you feel more confident with supporting your child’s learning. Please do come along. 

Kind regards, 

Mrs Murphy 

We have recently received feedback that parents and carers would like to know what our SEND offer looks like in practise. SEND and Inclusion is at the heart of everything that we do here at St James. Whether it be policy creation, considering school visits, curriculum developments or timetabling wellbeing breaks, we always consider how this will support our diverse community of children.  Led by Mrs Wales, SEND and Inclusion at St James is something we are all passionate about and to explain it better for parents, we have updated our ‘In a Nutshell’ series to include SEND and Inclusion. This can be found on the school website here

At St James, every teacher is a teacher of SEND and all class teachers are responsible for the delivery of the SEND provision in their class. We have a dedicated SENCO email address, sen@stjames-weybridge.surrey.sch.uk  which is accessed by Mrs Wales every Monday-Thursday.

One of the main features of our policy for SEND is our commitment to our very own Inclusive Charter. Now in its second year of implementation at St James, this outlines the four key features of Quality First teaching that we expect to see in most lessons. This is unique to St James as we believe if we can get it right for SEND, this will benefit all learners.

Our four Inclusive Charter Practices are:

·         Adaptive teaching and scaffolding

·         Visuals

·         Relationships

·         Manipulatives and resources

Some children may require some additional interventions out of the classroom to target an area of need. We are lucky enough to have a team of Teaching Assistants, who are now specialists in carefully chosen research-based interventions. Overseen by Mrs Wales, these children will receive this support and the progress of this will be monitored and reviewed at the end of the time-bound intervention.

To see an overview of our SEND support interventions, please see here.

In addition to all of this, we prioritise our school financial resources to maintain teaching assistants in each classroom in the morning to ensure all children can receive targeted supported in core subjects. The allocation of the additional adult is the responsibility of class teacher, and all our additional adults have recently received high quality training to ensure they can be highly effective in their role as a “guide by the side” to encourage children to developed their independent learner strategies which will be needed for their next phase of education.

For further information, you may want to read our SEND policy which is available here, or our SEND information report, which answers 14 key questions about SEND at St James.

If you have any other questions about our offer for children with additional needs at St James, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Mrs Wales.  

Please find below the lunch menu from our school caterers, Twelve15. This is a three week rolling menu. All children choose from one of the three meal options at the start of each school day.  

If your child is in KS2 and has a school meal, please remember to pay for and book their meals in advance using the SCOPAY app.