22nd March 2024 Dear Parent Carers, Weekly Update: 22/03/24 I hope this update finds you well. On Wednesday this week, some of our September 2024 Year 7 cohort came in with their families to find out more about their new school. We were delighted to meet them, and look forward to seeing the new students in their current schools over the next term, as well as having them in school in July for transition visits. International Visitors After the Easter break, we will be joined by two teachers from our partner school, Udayachal High School, in Mumbai, India. Over the years, staff and students from St Martins and Udayachal High School have visited each other’s schools using funding from the British Council. Currently, there is no funding for these visits, but we continue to value the links that we have. Padma and Gale will spend lots of time across our sites – St Martins, Horizons, Project SEARCH and the Café to learn more about what we do and how we prepare our students for adulthood. We are planning to have a Coffee Morning at the Café during their time here so that Parent Carers are able to meet our visitors too. Please look out for more information about this and let us know if you are interested in getting involved. Staffing Update Following on from last week’s update, I wanted to let you know that Mark Hatton who was due to join us as Key Stage 4 Lead, is no longer taking up this position as he has taken up a Headteachers position at another school. This is clearly an unexpected and disappointing turn of events so we will update you once we have a more permanent plan in place. In the meantime, I hope that you enjoy a brilliant weekend ahead of our final 4 days of term next week. We will be preparing our young people for Good Friday, a 2 week long Easter Break, and the Monday INSET day on return in the Summer Term. Best wishes,
Sabrina Hobbs Executive Headteacher Sabrina Hobbs Executive Headteacher St Martins School, The Derwent Campus, Bracknell Drive, Alvaston, Derby, DE24 0BT Tel: 01332 571151 Email: admin@stmartins.set.org Online: www.stmartinsschoolderby.co.uk The Shaw Education Trust Limited is a company limited by guarantee, registered in England (no 09067175) Registered address: Shaw Education Trust, Kidsgrove Secondary School, Gloucester Road, Kidsgrove, ST7 4DL. The details of our academies registered as business names can be found at www.shaweducation.org.uk.