Maintenance Fund

The parents, guardians or carers of all children attending this school contribute to the fund, although families with two of more children attending this school only pay for two children. This is part of the agreement you sign when your child is accepted as a pupil and is also something that you agree to do when you sigh the Home-School Agreement.

What do we pay?

The amount can vary but at present it is £27.00 per child per year. Payments can be made in full during the first half term or payments can be made in installments of £4.50 at the beginning of each half term. You will receive a reminder notice with a payment slip and envelope, to make your payment, at the beginning of each half term.

Why do we pay?

The money collected goes to the central fund of the London Diocesan Board for School (LDBS). Each church school pays into the fund. This fund enables all church schools to maintain the upkeep of their buildings.

The much loved and well used music room, which was formerly a store/stock room, was refurbished about six years ago. In order to comply with health and safety requirements and for the room to look the way it does today, it had to have new ventilation, damp proofing and new windows. The room was also fully redecorated and carpeted.

Other examples of how the Maintenance Fund has been used is the nursery building, which was restructured in order to allow for the building of a new schoolkeeper’s office, a garage and storeroom. During the summer break of 2001 new flooring was put in the assembly hall.

As well as all that, the infant building, which used to be open-plan, was redesigned in order to provide the school with three new individual classrooms for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 as well as, separate offices for the admin staff and headteacher.

We now have new stairs and a new ramp leading into the junior building. Also security gates and cameras. As you can imagine, all these improvements and work cost significant amounts of money.

These improvements would not have been possible were it not for the Maintenance Fund contributions.