Welcome to the St Thomas' Moorside school website which I hope gives you a taste of our school. St Thomas' is an outstanding school. It provides a challenging but hands-on approach to learning, relevant to the modern world. Children take part in weekly Philosophy lessons which enable them to become high level thinkers, questioning the world around them.
Specialist teachers teach Music and P.E. and our teachers receive bespoke development from highly skilled consultants in the fields of Maths, English and ICT. Our partnership with East Crompton St. James' has strengthened curriculum development through shared resources. School uniform for the new year is available from www.whittakersschoolwear.co.uk or from Debonair in the Market Hall in Oldham.
Specialist teachers teach Music and P.E. and our teachers receive bespoke development from highly skilled consultants in the fields of Maths, English and ICT. Our partnership with East Crompton St. James' has strengthened curriculum development through shared resources. School uniform for the new year is available from www.whittakersschoolwear.co.uk or from Debonair in the Market Hall in Oldham.
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The Department for Education requires schools to promote British values to ensure young people leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. Mutual respect for, and tolerance of, those with different faiths and beliefs and for those without faith. Schools are required to ensure that children become valuable and fully rounded members of society who treat others with respect and tolerance, regardless of background.
If you have any concerns of worries related to safeguarding please contact the above people. Our school is part of Operation Encompass. This is a police and education early intervention safeguarding partnership which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse.
Operation Encompass means that the police will share information about Domestic Abuse incidents with our school PRIOR to the start of the next school day when they have been called to a domestic incident.Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information.
Operation Encompass means that the police will share information about Domestic Abuse incidents with our school PRIOR to the start of the next school day when they have been called to a domestic incident.Operation Encompass information is stored in line with all other confidential safeguarding and child protection information.
Add your children's additional needs and disability to the council 'additional needs' register. We would like to encourage you to register your child's additional needs with the local council. The information is kept securely and you will receive updates and alerts when new services and resources are added to the Local Offer Directory.
At the Dove-Shell Federation, we are committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff. We know that everyone experiences life challenges that can make us vulnerable and at times, anyone may need additional emotional support. We take the view that positive mental health is everybody's business and that we all have a role to play.
The ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) intervention was originally developed within Southampton, then Hampshire, by Sheila Burton, Educational Psychologist. It was designed to build the capacity of schools to support the emotional needs of their pupils from within their own resources. It recognises that children learn better and are happier in school if their emotional needs are also addressed.
