‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’ Philippians 4:13
“Be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
Letter No. 33 Christian Value: Trust
13th June 2025
XIII.VI.MMXXV
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week, our amazing children have shown incredible determination and a positive attitude to learning in the classroom. From tackling challenges to supporting one another, they’re demonstrating true resilience and a strong belief in their ability to grow and succeed. We're proud of their hard work and the inspiring energy they bring to learning each and every day.
A huge well done to our super children who took part in the TASA Quad Kids event at Edge Hill University this week. They demonstrated incredible determination, resilience and impeccable behaviour (which was commented on by other schools and headteachers at the event) throughout the competition.
We are immensely proud of the way they represented our school with enthusiasm, teamwork and a fantastic attitude. It wasn’t just about athletic ability, it was about attitude, effort and supporting one another. Our children were shining examples of what it means to compete with heart and represent their school with pride.
Supporting Time-Telling at Home
Whilst learning to tell time is a small part of the curriculum, it's an important life skill that benefits from regular practice. You can support your child by talking about the time during daily routines, like bedtime, meals, or school pick-up and encouraging them to read both digital and analogue clocks. These simple moments at home make a big difference in building confidence and understanding.
Stay and Learn 3 – Reading Session
It was lovely to see so many attend our 'Stay and Learn' reading session. Thank you for your kind comments, it's wonderful to hear how much you value the work we do together. We’re proud to be part of such a strong, supportive community, all working together for our amazing children.
Comments received:
‘All the children were involved in the activities; everyone was very happy’
‘Lovely seeing all the children happy and engaged in their learning and my child was proud to show me around her classroom’
‘I had a great time and it was a real test of my listening skills! The children did a great job putting the story in the correct order’
‘It’s always lovely seeing our children at school, seeing how well behaved the children are and how learning is fun too’
‘My child loved showing me around the classroom and I can see how much my child enjoys school’
‘A fantastic and engaging session. It is informative to know the reasons why certain activities are completed and how they assist with learning in other areas of the curriculum’
Thank You for Your Feedback
One comment we received was that it would be helpful to have separate sessions for the different classes. Thank you for this suggestion; we appreciate your input and will take it into consideration when planning our ‘Stay and Learn’ sessions for the next academic year.
Sun Protection for Children
As we enter the summer months, we kindly ask that on sunny days, children come to school wearing sun cream and bring a sun hat to help protect them during outdoor activities. Please note that, in accordance with our school policy, staff are not permitted to apply sun cream to children. Thank you for your support and understanding.
What we have been learning this week in class:
Mice
This week in Marvellous Mice we have been thinking about different types of transport and comparing vehicles today with vehicles in the past. We are learning a new transport song in music and had fun using our voices to create sound effects. In Maths, we are learning and using positional language and in RE we told Clever Cub all about birthday celebrations and talked about other special times in our lives. In English we are reading the story Oi Frog! which is full of rhymes. We've enjoyed creating our own rhyming pairs ready to create our own rhyming story. We have created abstract art by wheeling toy cars through paint and are using toy trains to explore magnetism.
Squirrels
In PE Squirrels have continued with invasion games, impressing their new PE coach and coming back from their lesson with glowing feedback. In our guided reading lessons, we are coming to the end of our ‘After the Fall’ story study which we have enjoyed sharing with parents who visited for our ‘Stay and Learn’ session.
Our English lessons have focused on the book ‘Last Stop on Market Street’ in which the children have been learning all about quotation marks and verbs used to describe how a character is communicating their message. We have corrected sentences without punctuation and discussed words such as yelled, whispered and grumbled when doing some expressive reading.
In maths Year 2 continue to look at fractions with a particular focus on quarters. Year 1 have moved onto a new topic and are currently starting to look at positioning language such as left and right.
In history we continue to look at vehicles from the past and present and have created a time line of different forms of travel in our individual history book and in science children are continuing to look at plants and
In RE we have discussed our favourite places and why they are special to us, who we might like to have there with us and how that makes us feel. This is with a view to discussing special religious places in the future and how we feel when we visit these places. PSHE had the children agreeing with each other that the girl in our story needed to try and try again. They said we should never give up and agree with our topic of ‘Practice Makes Perfect’. We discussed a range of job roles and things you might need to train for if you wanted to be in that job.
Hedgehogs
English – we began our new text which is a nonsense poem called ‘The Jabberwocky’. We have been given snippets of words and phrases to predict what the poem is about, trying to decode the nonsense words to find the meaning of it📖🔠
Maths – Year 3 and Year 4 are both currently on the topic of time. Converting from analogue to digital, time word problems and fully understanding how many minutes in a day, an hour and a month! Please use this opportunity to reinforce at home test those hedgehogs too😊⏰🕣⌚️
We have also been focussing on our times tables, this week it’s the 6’s and we know a little tip to help us remember them!
Science – we are continuing our topic of sound and volume. We looked this week at how sound travels and how far. We also measured on a decibel meter how loud certain sounds were as part of our investigation. We had a guest in our science lesson this week, Daniel from Hesketh Bank Christian Centre who plays guitar in their church band. Daniel played us some songs and also helped us with our investigation by strumming to see how loud it measured on the meter. We also had Mr Cowan, one of our governors join us who attends the same church and arranged for Daniel to come in, so a huge thankyou to him from Hedgehogs. 🎸
PE – we continued our rugby sessions with the Wigan Warrior coach. We looked at tries this week and throwing correctly, as well as learning the names of the different catches and throws🏉
We had a day focusing on sustainability and looked at ways in which we could help our school be more eco-friendly and we all became eco hero’s. We walked around school identifying areas where we could already see how fantastic we were doing as a school and came up with some ideas to improve our outside area as well as inside. We concentrated on saving electricity, not wasting water, our outside space and how to utilise it more effectively. We also looked at re-using and recycling materials we have around school too. We had a plan to jot down ideas. designed posters and learnt a lot about what it means to be a more sustainable school.
♻️#teamwork #eco hero’s♻️
History – we looked at Roman Crime and Punishment. We learnt that they used a court system similar to what we still use today with a judge, jury and lawyer. 🏛️🧑🏻⚖️
Foxes
This week in Foxes we enjoyed a trip to Morecambe as part of our English work. We became travel reviewers, writing about Blackpool, Lytham St Annes and Morecambe. We described the individual regions, including their attractions, activities, and overall experience. We then recommended the location we each thought was best.
In French, we revised telling the time as well as practising phrases to ask and explain what we like doing at the weekend, eg 'Je prends mon petit-dejeuner. Some of the Foxes competed in the TASAlympics at Edge Hill and were absolutely fantastic at the different events.
In PSHE we played 'emotionopology' and discussed different strategies we could use to manage our emotions in different situations.
In history we have started the topic of ‘Groovy Greeks’, locating it on a map and comparing it to England.
In maths we have been adding, subtracting, dividing, multiplying and rounding decimals. We enjoyed sharing a reading lesson with our parents to show them some of the activities that we complete to broaden our vocabulary and understanding of different word classes.
In PE we continued our rugby sessions with the Wigan Warrior coach. We looked at tries this week and throwing correctly, as well as learning the names of the different catches and throw.
Finally, Year 6 enjoyed an impromptu learning experience as they visited Maidenhead Aquatics @ Wigan. We used the opportunity to revise our scientific knowledge about ‘how animals are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and revised how adaptation may lead to evolution.
Key Dates:
Click the link below to take you to the key dates on our website:
https://www.banks.lancsngfl.ac.uk/key-dates/
School Dinners
Click the link below to take you to the school dinner choices on our website:
https://www.banks.lancsngfl.ac.uk/lunch-menus/
Nursery Places
We are booking in Nursery places for September onwards, so if you are interested, or know of anyone who is interested, reserve your place by contacting Miss Callander in the school office at bursar@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk or 01704 227323.
Attention to Attendance
Our current whole school attendance is 93.07%, which is below our target of 95%.
If your child(ren) is ill and not attending school it is important that you inform school by 9:15am. If the phone is engaged, please leave a message using option 1 (reporting a pupil absence) or email bursar@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk.
After School Clubs for After Half Term (Summer Term 2)
Tuesday will be Active/Movement Club for any child in Squirrels, Hedgehogs and Foxes, 3:15-4:15pm, delivered by a coach from the West Lancs Sports Partnership.
Thursday will be Football Club with Mr Draper and Mr Wedlin, 3:15-4:15pm. This will take place at The Hub Banks or on the school field (we will let you know on the day via email).
Thursday will be Football Skills for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 with Mrs Bradshaw 3:15-4:15pm.
Friday mornings will be Active Club with Mr Draper, where children will be encouraged to keep moving for 20-25 minutes whilst getting some morning fresh air and socialising with their friends 8:15am.
Breakfast and Afterschool Care Provision
Breakfast and Afterschool provision is available, booking on-line through Eduspot.
Breakfast Club:
7:45am drop off £3
8am drop off £2.50
8:30am drop off £1.50
ASC
3:15-3:45pm £2 (Monday – Friday)
3:15-4:30pm £5 (Monday – Friday)
3:15-5:30pm £7 (Monday –Friday
If you require after school care at short notice (e.g. for the next day) and are unable to book in through the usual system of EduSpot, please contact Miss Callander in the office to let her know, particularly if your child will need to stay until 5:30pm.
Please be aware that if a child has not been booked in and no other children are attending, there may be no staff scheduled to supervise.
That said, we will always do our best to accommodate late requests and arrange staff cover where possible. Thank you for your understanding and support.
Online Payment System
Please remember to regularly log in to the online payment system to pay for nursery fees, dinner money, and any other school-related costs.
If you believe you may be entitled to Free School Meals, you can apply online or contact Miss Callander in the school office, by phone or email, who will be happy to assist you with the application process. If you need help using the online payment system, Miss Callander is also available to guide you through it. We kindly ask that all payments are made daily, weekly or monthly to help manage balances effectively.
Important:
If a child’s outstanding balance exceeds £50, we will unfortunately no longer be able to offer Breakfast or After School Care Provision, and your child will need to bring a packed lunch to school. This is to prevent the debt from increasing further.
If you would like to discuss a payment plan, please contact Mr Draper via email at head@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk to arrange a meeting. Thank you for your continued support and understanding.
"Trust Is a Treasure"
Trust is a treasure, shiny and bright,
It grows when we do what we know is right.
A promise you keep, a kind word you say,
Can build someone’s trust in you every day.
It’s telling the truth, even when it’s tough,
It’s being a friend when times get rough.
It’s sharing a secret, knowing it’s safe,
It’s standing by someone in every place.
But trust can be broken if lies come through,
It’s hard to rebuild when someone hurts you.
So treat it with care, like a delicate thing,
Like a bird with a song or a butterfly's wing.
Be honest, be loyal, be someone who's true,
And others will know they can trust you too.
Because trust is a treasure, we all can share,
A gift that shows how much we care.
Take care
Mr Draper and all the team at Banks Methodist
#TeamBanks
‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’ Philippians 4:13
“Be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
Letter No. 32 Christian Value: Trust
6th June 2025
VI.VI.MMXXV
Dear Parents and Carers,
The children have had a fantastic start to the new term. As I have walked around school it is lovely to see the children all happy, working hard, and settling back into their routines beautifully. It’s great to see such enthusiasm and positivity in the classroom!
A Prayer for Our New Term
Dear God,
Thank You for the great start to our new term.
We are happy to be back, learning, growing, and being together.
Thank You for our friends, our teachers, and the fun we have each day.
Help us to keep working hard and doing our best.
When things get tricky, remind us to keep going and never give up.
Give us strength to stay strong, even when we feel unsure.
Teach us to be kind and work as a team,
To listen, share, and help one another.
Help us trust in You and in each other,
So we can keep learning with joy and confidence.
Thank You for walking with us every step of the way.
With You, we can face anything.
Amen.
Stay and Learn 3 – Reading Session
This will take place on Thursday 12th June, 2:15-3pm, for all classes.
During the 45 minutes, parents will be able to work with their children on a range of reading activities that we carry out in school. We hope as many of you as possible can attend this session, If you have 2/3 children in different classes you can spend 15-25 minutes in each class.
A Reminder of our Message
When everyone in a school—like teachers, parents, students, staff, school leaders, and even people from the local community—work well together, it helps the school become a great place for children to learn and grow. Teamwork means people respect each other, share ideas, and help out in different ways. When the whole school community works together to help children learn and feel happy, the school becomes a fun, welcoming place where everyone can do their best.
If you ever have any concerns regarding your child’s progress, wellbeing, or experience at school, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We're here to support you and your child's learning journey. Our doors are always open, and we're here to help every step of the way.
When our school advisors come to visit our school, they are always extremely impressed! They see that all of the classrooms are calm and that our children are focused on their learning. Children are excited about their lessons and really enjoy learning new things. They also demonstrate great behaviour, treating their teachers and classmates kindly and respectfully. The advisors always say the school has done an excellent job making learning important and making sure children feel safe, happy, and ready to take part in class.
At our school we are lucky enough to have a minibus. We use our minibus to take children on trips to enrich our learning outside of the classroom. This helps make learning more fun and interesting! The minibus is not just for getting around—it helps us learn in new ways. Going on trips together helps children to work as a team, become more independent, and make new friends. It helps children feel more confident and learn important life skills whilst having fun.
Warm Weather
As we enter Summer, on days when the sun is shining could children please come to school wearing sun cream and also bring a hat. As a school our policy states that we do not apply sun cream to children. Thank you in advance.
Key Dates:
Click the link below to take you to the key dates on our website:
https://www.banks.lancsngfl.ac.uk/key-dates/
School Dinners
Click the link below to take you to the school dinner choices on our website:
https://www.banks.lancsngfl.ac.uk/lunch-menus/
Nursery Places
We are booking in Nursery places for September onwards, so if you are interested, or know of anyone who is interested, reserve your place by contacting Miss Callander in the school office at bursar@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk or 01704 227323.
Attention to Attendance
Our current whole school attendance is 93%, which is below our target of 95%.
If your child(ren) is ill and not attending school it is important that you inform school by 9:15am. If the phone is engaged, please leave a message using option 1 (reporting a pupil absence) or email bursar@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk.
Our Christian Value for this half term is ‘Trust’.
What we do in school in response to trust:
After School Clubs for After Half Term (Summer Term 2)
Tuesday will be Active/Movement Club for any child in Squirrels, Hedgehogs and Foxes, 3:15-4:15pm, delivered by a coach from the West Lancs Sports Partnership.
Thursday will be Football Club with Mr Draper and Mr Wedlin, 3:15-4:15pm. This will take place at The Hub Banks or on the school field (we will let you know on the day via email).
Thursday will be Football Skills for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 with Mrs Bradshaw 3:15-4:15pm.
Friday mornings will be Active Club with Mr Draper, where children will be encouraged to keep moving for 20-25 minutes whilst getting some morning fresh air and socialising with their friends 8:15am.
Breakfast and Afterschool Care Provision
Breakfast and Afterschool provision is available, booking on-line through Eduspot.
Breakfast Club:
7:45am drop off £3
8am drop off £2.50
8:30am drop off £1.50
ASC
3:15-3:45pm £2 (Monday – Friday)
3:15-4:30pm £5 (Monday – Friday)
3:15-5:30pm £7 (Monday –Friday
If you need after school care with short notice, e.g. next day and are not able to book in, please could you ring Miss Callander in the office to let her know, especially for a 5:30pm pick up.
If children have not been booked in and no other children are in after school care, there could potentially be no staff to supervise the children.
However, we will always try our best to accommodate late requests and, if possible, have staff available to work at short notice. Thank you for your understanding.
Online Payment System
Please could you remember to log on to the online payment system and pay for nursery fees, dinner money etc. on a regular basis.
If you think you may be entitled to free school meals you can apply online or email/ring Miss Callander in the school office who will happily assist you to complete an application.
If you need assistance with the online payment system, please email/ring Miss Callander who will be happy to help you through the online process. Thank you for your understanding.
Please can all payments be made either daily, weekly or monthly. If a child’s debt exceeds £50, we will not be able to offer Breakfast/After School Care Provision and children will have to bring a packed lunch to school to ensure that your debt doesn’t increase further. If you need to talk to Mr Draper about a payment plan, please email him on head@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk to arrange a meeting. Thank you for your understanding.
Take care
Mr Draper and all the team at Banks Methodist
#TeamBanks
‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me’ Philippians 4:13
“Be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9
Letter No. 31 Christian Value: Truthfulness
23rd May 2025
XXIII.V.MMXXV
Dear Parents and Carers,
When everyone in a school—like teachers, parents, students, staff, school leaders, and even people from the local community—work well together, it helps the school become a great place for children to learn and grow. Teamwork means people respect each other, share ideas, and help out in different ways. When the whole school community works together to help children learn and feel happy, the school becomes a fun, welcoming place where everyone can do their best.
If you ever have any concerns regarding your child’s progress, wellbeing, or experience at school, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. We're here to support you and your child's learning journey. Our doors are always open, and we're here to help every step of the way.
When our school advisors come to visit our school, they are always extremely impressed! They see that all of the classrooms are calm and that our children are focused on their learning. Children are excited about their lessons and really enjoy learning new things. They also demonstrate great behaviour, treating their teachers and classmates kindly and respectfully. The advisors always say the school has done an excellent job making learning important and making sure children feel safe, happy, and ready to take part in class.
At our school we are lucky enough to have a minibus. We use our minibus to take children on trips to enrich our learning outside of the classroom. This helps make learning more fun and interesting! The minibus is not just for getting around—it helps us learn in new ways. Going on trips together helps children to work as a team, become more independent, and make new friends. It helps children feel more confident and learn important life skills whilst having fun.
Super Fundraiser Success for Bebe's Hive
We’re thrilled to share that our recent fundraiser for Bebe’s Hive raised a heartfelt £106.75!
This special charity honours the memory of Bebe and supports its beautiful mission:
‘To provide a safe place where little hearts can heal, create, and find hope after loss’.
Every penny raised helps to bring light, creativity, and comfort to children navigating grief. Thank you to everyone who supported, donated, and shared—we couldn’t have done it without you.
Together, we are helping little hearts find hope again.
What the children have been doing this week:
Mice
This week in Marvellous Mice we have been reading stories about Goldilocks and the 3 Bears. We searched the internet to find out facts about bears around the world. We have looked closely at teddy bears and created pencil drawings of them, trying hard to represent their fluffy texture. We were challenged to make a new chair for Baby Bear using boxes and other reclaimed materials, making sure it was the right size and could stand up by itself. In mathematics we have been exploring and using 2D shapes and in RE we have heard about different places of worship and talked about what makes them holy. Finally, in English, we have made our own innovated versions of the story ‘So Much!’ and told them to the rest of the class. We are very excited to be going out for another trip in the minibus to the beach. Maybe we’ll manage to dig a big enough hole to fit Mr Draper in!
Squirrels
This week in Squirrels we have started a new book called “Last Stop on Market Street” by Matt de la Peña. The class have been discussing the different characters and working on their descriptive writing while focusing on our five senses to help the reader feel like they are in the individual child’s chosen setting. In our Guided Reading we have continued to look at the story “After the Fall” by Dan Santat and have thought up some creative ways we could have helped Humpty Dumpty stay safe on the wall. We enjoyed a lesson outside making a record of all the things our senses could pick up such as hearing chirping birds and rustling trees and touching the rough bark of a tree or smelling the freshly cut grass. Our maths work has collectively focused on fractions with specific focus on finding a half and quarter of a number of items. Within our R.E. lessons we have created our own Pentecost poem which the children not only created as a group but they have also each taken it in turns to write part of it. It is a real piece of class worship! Our new focus in History is the local area with travel and transport. This week has taken a particular focus on how transport has changed from past to present and why we might have made these changes. Whilst looking at plants in science we had a trip to Arden Lea Nursery to learn about how hanging baskets are made, where all the plants come from, what they need to thrive in transport and where they will all be sent off to. The children were captivated by the machines and couldn’t have been more enthusiastic to answer questions! In music we have started to use claves to help us keep the beat and to look for ques to play during specific parts of the songs.
Hedgehogs
English, we have been busy writing our non-chronological reports and using our persuasive writing to convince Mr Draper to visit Weslandia.
Maths, Year 3’s have been working hard looking at Roman numerals in relation to clocks and our topic of time. Year 4’s have been continuing with money and recognising how money amounts can be the same using different coins and notes.
Science, we are continuing our topic of sound and we conducted our balloon experiment on Monday to create high pitch and low pitch noises.
Geography, we listed the advantages and disadvantages of tourists visiting the Lake District in summertime.
French, continuing our topic of items in the classroom, in the backpack and in the pencil case.
P.E, continuing our rugby training and taking part in a match during our lesson.
R.E, we looked at the question "When did the church begin?"
PSHE, ending our topic of keeping healthy with an end if unit assessment.
Art, we ended our unit by sewing onto our tie dye T-shirts we created a couple of weeks ago.
We also visited Ribchester Roman Museum on Tuesday. We looked at lots of different artifacts, visited ruins of an ancient Roman bath house and took part in a workshop where we learnt lots of interesting facts and we all had a chance to try on armour and Roman helmets and march with a huge shield and sword!
Foxes
This week has been a busy but enjoyable one for Foxes! Year 6 proudly completed their 'hedgehog house' which they designed and made themselves (with a little help from Mrs Noblett) and carefully chose a carefully considered location for it. Year 6 also showed great initiative by creating a natural bug habitat nearby, providing a handy feeding spot for any hedgehog visitors. In DT, they finished their fantastic toy designs and took time to evaluate their work, thoughtfully evaluating how they might develop their original ideas if they were to make them again. In French, we practised describing the weather in different seasons and in PSHE we ended our topic by considering what type of world we would like to live in in the future. In geography, we visited a third coastal town to complete our comparison of Blackpool, Southport, and Lytham St Anne’s and learnt about erosion, changes in land use, and the human and physical features of each area, finishing with a well-written report on Blackpool. We visited Arden Lea nurseries to develop scientific knowledge of plants, and the conditions needed for plants to grow according to the seasons, as well as investigating how light travels, discovering that it can only move in straight lines. Finally, we ended the week with a lovely trip to Southport Beach, enjoying some quality ‘buddy time’ with the Reception children.
Key Dates:
Click the link below to take you to the key dates on our website:
https://www.banks.lancsngfl.ac.uk/key-dates/
School Dinners
Click the link below to take you to the school dinner choices on our website:
https://www.banks.lancsngfl.ac.uk/lunch-menus/
Nursery Places
We are booking in Nursery places for September onwards, so if you are interested, or know of anyone who is interested, reserve your place by contacting Miss Callander in the school office at bursar@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk or 01704 227323.
Attention to Attendance
Our current whole school attendance is 93%, which is below our target of 95%.
If your child(ren) is ill and not attending school it is important that you inform school by 9:15am. If the phone is engaged, please leave a message using option 1 (reporting a pupil absence) or email bursar@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk.
After School Clubs for After Half Term (Summer Term 2)
Tuesday will be Active/Movement Club for any child in Squirrels, Hedgehogs and Foxes, 3:15-4:15pm, delivered by a coach from the West Lancs Sports Partnership.
Friday mornings will be Active Club with Mr Draper, where children will be encouraged to keep moving for 20-25 minutes whilst getting some morning fresh air and socialising with their friends 8:15am.
Breakfast and Afterschool Care Provision
Breakfast and Afterschool provision is available, booking on-line through Eduspot.
Breakfast Club:
7:45am drop off £3
8am drop off £2.50
8:30am drop off £1.50
ASC
3:15-3:45pm £2 (Monday – Friday)
3:15-4:30pm £5 (Monday – Friday)
3:15-5:30pm £7 (Monday –Friday
If you need after school care with short notice, e.g. next day and are not able to book in, please could you ring Miss Callander in the office to let her know, especially for a 5:30pm pick up.
If children have not been booked in and no other children are in after school care, there could potentially be no staff to supervise the children.
However, we will always try our best to accommodate late requests and, if possible, have staff available to work at short notice. Thank you for your understanding.
Online Payment System
Please could you remember to log on to the online payment system and pay for nursery fees, dinner money etc. on a regular basis.
If you think you may be entitled to free school meals you can apply online or email/ring Miss Callander in the school office who will happily assist you to complete an application.
If you need assistance with the online payment system, please email/ring Miss Callander who will be happy to help you through the online process. Thank you for your understanding.
Please can all payments be made either daily, weekly or monthly. If a child’s debt exceeds £50, we will not be able to offer Breakfast/After School Care Provision and children will have to bring a packed lunch to school to ensure that your debt doesn’t increase further. If you need to talk to Mr Draper about a payment plan, please email him on head@banks-methodist.lancs.sch.uk to arrange a meeting. Thank you for your understanding.
A Prayer – Working Together
Dear God,
Thank You for our wonderful children—
Each one special, smart, and full of dreams.
Please help us—parents, teachers, and friends—
To work together with kind hearts and helping hands.
Let us listen, learn, and share,
So we can make the world better for our kids everywhere.
Help us to be patient when things are hard,
And to cheer each other on when things go well.
May we always remember what matters most—
Love, laughter, and taking care of one another.
Thank You for the joy children bring.
May our teamwork help them shine bright every day.
Amen.
Take care
Mr Draper and all the team at Banks Methodist
#TeamBanks