Value Agreement
The school exists to serve Christian families primarily. We expect prospective parents to have read the material on the website including the prospectus and be in agreement with the values and the concept of partnership.
Academic requirements
We have mixed ability classes. Our aim is to maintain a fairly even spread of ability in each class. This enables us to keep the school as balanced and as inclusive as possible.
Special needs provision
It is important that any history of special needs is discussed fully at interview. As a mainstream school with an inclusion policy, a range of special learning needs will be addressed naturally in class by the adaptation of the classroom, use of learning aids, specially designed resources and appropriate learning targets etc. However, as a small school serving the whole of Merseyside, we cannot automatically cater for certain types or severities of special need. LEA schools collectively share many resources and strategies between them in order to work out an inclusion policy over the city as a whole. One school alone cannot provide all the specialisms. Therefore, any provision required at CFS beyond what is possible for one class teacher to give within a mixed ability class, will need to be agreed with parents before a place can be confirmed. Read more about special needs.
Standardised tests
Standardised tests are given soon after a pupil is accepted. This is not an entrance exam. Results are used to help us gage learning levels in order to plan the teaching.
Potential learning difficulties may show up from these screening results. If we were previously unaware of these from parent interviews, we can quickly review issues such as further assessment and provision.
Records
To assist the smooth running of the acceptance and placement procedures, school reports and any other educational assessments should be available before interview. We may also obtain verbal reports from previous teachers.
