Once again, Manna Academy is glad to have you entrust your children and wards into our care.
Nursery: 7.30a.m. -1.30 p.m.
Creche: 7.30a.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Primary: 7.30a.m. – 2.00 p.m.
Secondary: 7:30a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
It is extremely important that children attend school regularly and arrive on time. Pupils arriving late are marked as late in the register and this is recorded on their report at the end of the year.
The Head of School regularly monitors absences and lateness.
If your child has an appointment and will be late for school, please notify the class teacher in writing prior to the appointment. On your child’s return to school, please accompany your child to the school office so that they can be registered. If your child has an unavoidable appointment during school hours please report to the school office before collecting your child from the classroom. It is extremely disruptive for a child to go on holiday during term time and children should not be taken out of school for holidays.
All parents need to understand that schools have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children who are their pupils. This responsibility necessitates a child protection policy and procedures. A school may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when concerns about a child’s welfare arise.
Manna Academy has a child protection policy. The Principal/Proprietress and the Head of School are the ‘Designated Senior Persons’ for child protection and they are happy to discuss any questions or concerns parents may have related to child protection policies and practice.
We respect the value of the linguistic and religious diversities which exist within the wider community since Nigeria is a multiethnic state. We are committed to challenging attitudes that promote racial discrimination ensuring respect for all and preparing pupils for life in a culturally diverse society.
We recognise that it is the responsibility of every member of the school community to ensure that this ethos is actively and consistently reflected in our practice. We systematically assess, evaluate and regularly review the impact of our school accessibility and race equality plans on the life, attitudes and achievements of all groups and individuals in our school.
If your child is absent, please, notify the school by calling on the first day of absence and follow this up with a letter on your child’s return to school.
In the case of longer absence, kindly notify the school as it helps us to be aware of illnesses and in particular those that are infectious.
Please, let us know if your child has been in contact with an infectious illness. If your child has a bout of sickness or diarrhoea, it is policy to allow 48 hours from the last episode before the child returns to school. This helps prevent the complaint of its spreading to other children.
We need to know about any particular medical need before a child is admitted, or when a child first develops a medical need. Parents should tell us about the medicines that their child needs to take and provide details of any changes to the prescription or the support required.
All medicines must be brought to the school office by the child’s parent together with a consent form (available from the office) signed by the parent. No child should ever bring medicine into school themselves or carry any medicine around with them.
We will only accept medicines that have been prescribed by a doctor, dentist, nurse prescriber or pharmacist prescriber. The medicines should always be provided in the original container as dispensed by a pharmacist and include the prescriber’s instructions for administration. It is helpful, where clinically appropriate, if medicines are prescribed in dose frequencies which
enable it to be taken outside school hours. Medicines that need to be taken three times a day could be taken in the morning, after school hours and at bedtime. We will not administer any non-prescribed medicine.
We are unable to accept responsibility for dangerous medicines or for failure to administer a dose and are unable to store medicines in a fridge.
We support and encourage children to take responsibility for managing their own medicines from an early age. If children can take their medicine themselves, staff will supervise.
We work hard to teach children the first steps in looking after themselves, e.g., washing their hands after using the toilet, wearing a coat when it is cold, not staying out in the sun for too long and blowing their noses properly.
If your child has an accident, we will enter the details in our accident book. If your child bumps their head we will send home a note to let you know or we will telephone you. Head lice and threadworms are endemic throughout the population.
Parents can help prevent head lice and threadworms from spreading by training children to always wash their hands after going to the toilet and by combing their hair everyday with a smooth tooth comb. Be aware that these conditions spread very quickly so do look out for symptoms.
Routine medicals take place once consent forms have been signed.
Parents are notified of any concerns.
During school hours it is only possible to enter by the front door. Please report to the office as soon as you enter the building.
Children should be brought to school and collected by an adult. If you will not be able to collect your child, please let the school office know who will be coming in your place. We will not release your child to another adult unless we have had a message from you. Please make sure that we know how to contact you on phone.
Children should be brought to school and collected by an adult. If you will not be able to collect your child, please let the class teacher know who will be coming in your place. We will not release your child to another adult unless we have had a message from you. Please make sure that we know how to contact you by telephone.
As so many children are brought to school by car, parents are not allowed to park in the school grounds or to drive into school to collect children from or after school activities. Your cooperation ensures the safety of the children and also the good relationship between the school and our neighbours on the adjacent roads.
The main school gate is closed to vehicles between 8.00am and 2:30p.m.
Our school provides a range of voluntary healthy hot meals which are prepared on site. Nursery pupils will be fed thrice while those in the primary and secondary will be fed twice.
You may pay for school meals for your child or send in a healthy packed lunch/snacks. We do not allow sweets, fizzy or energy drinks.
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