Headteacher's Letter - January 2023 - Stepney All Saints School

10^th January 2023

Dear parents and carers,

As this is my first letter of the New Year, I would like to begin by extending my warming wishes to all for a safe, happy, and successful 2023. The coming months promise much for Stepney All Saints students and as we throw ourselves back into school life and embrace our vision: “We will achieve excellence and inspire generations the All Saints Way”, we can expect excellent progress and great achievements. We have a busy half term ahead of us and a number of key events in our school calendar fast approaching.

Parental contact details:

A reminder to all parents/carers to ensure that you continue to update the school every time that there is a change to your contact details. This includes home address, email address and contact numbers. Please email admissions@stepneyallsaints.school with your child’s full name and form group and your name, relationship to the child and updated contact details.

Breakfast
With thanks to The Portal Trust, we are able to offer all students at Stepney All Saints School a free breakfast pack, which will consist of a hot chocolate and one breakfast item from the breakfast pack menu (toast, cereal bar, fruit or yoghurt). Breakfast packs can be collected from the Sixth Form Café every Monday – Friday between 8.00-8.30am. This will take effect from January until the February half term 2023 in the first instance, depending on uptake and funding. Should we continue to offer this breakfast pack to students, we will update our students and parents.

Cost of Living

Tower Hamlets have provided support for families regarding cost-of-living support in our area. For information, please following the links posted below:

Directory of warm spaces Warm spaces – CLICK HERE
Directory of food banks and meals for those in need Food banks and meals – CLICK HERE

Enrichment activities

A reminder that all students in Years 7, 8 and 9 take part in enrichment activities at Stepney All Saints. We want our students to excel in all aspects of their school life and attendance at enrichment activities is a key element. We are monitoring attendance and this will be reflected in students’ reports at Academic Review Day. Well done to those students who received awards at the end of term for their outstanding contribution to enrichment. An updated list of afterschool and lunchtime clubs is available to view HERE.

Key Dates and Events

This is also a busy time with a number of dates in diary for the coming weeks as follows:

Year 9 Parents’ Evenings: Wednesday 11^th + Thursday 12^th January
Sixth Form Open Evening on 18^th Click HERE to sign up.
Academic Review Day: Friday 10^th February

The full set of term dates for the academic year are available on our website, https://stepneyallsaints.school/our-school/term-dates-school-hours/.

To remain up-to-date on what is happening in school, click HERE for our latest news articles and follow us on Facebook and Twitter @StepneyAS for a wealth of content from students and staff.

As always, thank you for your continued support. Please do get in touch if there is any aspect of our provision that you would like to discuss.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Woods, Headteacher

Headteacher’s Letter – January 2023