St Margaret's CE Primary School

Vacancy : Trust Finance Director

As a result of a new diocesan multi-academy trust being formed, the directors of the Emmanuel Diocese of Liverpool Academies Trust are building a new central team, and are seeking to appoint a permanent Finance Director (Deputy CFO).

St Margaret's forming New Multi-academy Trust

The Governing Body of the school is joining with eight other schools to form a new diocesan multi-academy trust called Emmanuel Diocese of Liverpool Academies Trust.

It is the intention that the school will move to be an academy in this trust from mid Autumn.

The schools are consulting on your views about this proposal. We have provided a consultation website with further information, including our reasons for academisation and a response form. The consultation letter for parents is here: PARENT CONSULTATION LETTER The consultation website is: www.edlatconsultations.uk

Parent Governor Vacancy

The Governing Board has a vacancy for parent governor.

Please refer to our recruitment booklet 'Become a Parent Governor' which includes the notice of election and an MS Word version of the Nomination Form.

The nomination process commences 5 June and nominations may be received any day up to the nomination close date (Wed 18 June, 12 Noon).

New Arbor MIS

Latest Announcement: 29/03/2025

We are excited to announce that we have moved our Management Information System to Arbor.

Adopting Arbor will allow us to communicate with you more efficiently and bring all core school data and workflows into one system. Primary Guardians are invited to set up a password to access the Arbor Parent Portal and then to download the Arbor App. You can only access the App by first setting up portal access.

SATS Information Evening

Please find link here to mp4 file of video of PowerPoint used during our Year 6 SATS Information Evening.

File HERE: https://shorturl.at/u9c70

Reception 2025 Visits

Are you due to start school in September 2025?

Whilst our Discovery days have passed, you can still visit our school to meet our Reception staff and senior leaders to explain our unique education we offer.

Use Live Chat on this website or give us a ring on 01925 634207 to arrange a time.

Working Collaboratively towards Multi-Academy Trust

Our school has been working for a number of years within a group of nine schools supporting school improvement. To preserve the quality of education and opportunity for our pupils and staff, we are looking to develop a new multi-academy trust together. Over the coming weeks we will be sharing our plans with our communities, including gaining your views and how you can contribute to our school’s future. Please return to this website in the coming months to find out more about how this project is developing.

New Optional Tartan Skirt

We are launching a new addition to our school uniform. This will mark our heritage as a school named after St Margaret of Scotland and be a feature of of our one hundredth school centenary as a Church School founded by the Deed in 1826. The wearing of our tartan skirt is optional. Black and grey skirts (and trousers) will still be part of our uniform, though we will be phasing out the grey skirts (and trousers) at the end of the next academic year.

The tartan skirts can be purchased only from the uniform shop in Warrington Town Centre at a cost of £12.99. Alphaschoolwear.com; 50-54 Buttermarket Street, Warrington, WA1 2NN; 01925 576868. Please note the school office does not stock this item.

Section 48 - Church School Inspection

The National Church of England inspected our school on Wednesday 6 March and we are very delighted to have received our inspection report following our Section 48 SIAMS inspection. To some extent it mirrored the experience of our OFSTED inspection in March 2023 in which HMI summed up our pupils’ experience as ‘pupils love learning and achieve well’ and gave us only one area for improvement. OFSTED Report 03/23: https://shorturl.at/opGL3

The Section 48 inspection report celebrates this tremendous church school; its staff, its pupils and its governors. The inspector/s describe ‘Relationships are extremely strong’, ‘Pupils know they are unique, loved and nurtured and that the adults in school will listen to them and help’, and ‘Loving relationships within school are valued by parents’. A copy of the report is available here: SIAMS Report 06/24: https://shorturl.at/zGRS2

School outcomes continue to get better and better

The DFE have published the progress scores for 2023 data.

As you can see our children's progress is Above average for reading and Well above Average (the top band) for writing and maths meaning they go on to high school very well-prepared for the next stage of their education.