The School Day
Learning Time
When you arrive at school, you must take your child straight to their classroom door via the front or back playground. Please make sure your child has everything they need for the day e.g. packed lunch, swimming kit, PE kit, water bottle etc.
A typical week at school is 32.5 hours, Monday - Friday.
School gates open from 08:30am and classroom doors open at 08:40am
The register is taken at 08:50am
If you arrive to school with your child after 08:50, your child will be late for registration and the gates will be closed. You will have to report to the school office to sign in.
The school gates open for pick-up at 3:10pm and the school day finishes at 3:15pm
You must collect your child on time everyday. Your child must be collected by a parent/carer or other responsible adult. To find out further details about collection your child from school, you can read our policy here.
We hold many different clubs at school; both before and after school. The clubs have different finish times, so please ensure you check with your class teacher. You can find more information about our school clubs here or by calling the school office.
Nursery
Morning Session (08:30am - 11:30am)
You should drop your child at school using any gate at 08:30am
You should collect your child at 11:20 - 11:30am using the gates on Barlow Road
Afternoon Session (12:15pm - 3:15pm)
You should drop your child at 12:15 - 12:30pm using the front gate next to Chapel Street Park
You should collect your child from school using any gate at 3:15pm
Full Time Sessions (08:30am - 3:15pm)
You should drop your child at school using any gate at 08:30am
You should collect your child from school using any gate at 3:15pm
Parents/carers will not be given access to inside the school grounds outside the times stated above.
Attendance
Attendance is one of our highest priorities at Chapel Street. You can view our Attendance Policy and Collection from School Policy on our Policies page here.
Children who have poor attendance and punctuality find it much harder to learn to read. This greatly affects their academic performance and results. We are encouraging all our families to work with us to try and improve your child’s attendance and punctuality at school.
During the academic year (September - July), school attendance is compulsory. If your child does not attend school during term time, this will be recorded as an unauthorised absence. If this happens on multiple occasions, this could result in a fine from the Local Authority.
If your child is poorly or absent from school for a medical reason, you must telephone the school office on 0161 224 1269 or email admin@chapelstreet.manchester.sch.uk as soon as possible (preferably by 9am), so we are able to record the reason for your child's absence. Failure to notify the school will result in our Attendance Officer making contact with the child's parent/carer.
If your child is not attending school for any other reason, you will need to ring the school office before 9am.
School Gateway is the UK’s best parent engagement software, to make sure our parents are as closely involved with their children’s school lives as possible.
All school related attendance monitoring and communication will go through School Gateway – it is the central hub of information for our parents. Most of our communication will be sent via email or app notifications.
The email from school will look like this: SC3522058a@schoolcomms.com (add us to your contacts or safe senders list!)
To stay up to date with what’s going on at school make sure you download the app for FREE. Just search School Gateway in your App store and download!
Apple iPhone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/iosdownload
Android phone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/androiddownload
Your login details will be automatically generated using the contact information Chapel Street already has, so please make sure the details we hold for you are up to date. You can check and change these details by sending an email to admin@chapelstreet.manchester.sch.uk
If you have any questions or would like some more information, please see the School Gateway site here: https://schoolgateway.co.uk/
PLEASE NOTE: All payments will still be processed through ParentPay. It is essential you still use ParentPay for your school finances. To find out more, please visit our ParentPay page here.
We have created a simple user guide to help you get set up, please click the link below for our step-by-step guide:
School Gateway - How to sign up
If you have any questions or would like to speak to someone from the school office about setting up your School Gateway app, please email/call us or come to the school office and we will be happy to help.
