Late Arrival:

Children should not be sent in late for personal events or parent work commitments.

Routine appointments should be made outside of school hours. 

• Please send an email before 8.30am to Info@st-james.richmond.sch.uk.
  • Child’s name
  • Class name
  • Reason for early collection
  • Supporting evidence of the appointment (this can be a text message or screen shot of the apt.).

Requesting Early Collection:

Children should not be collected early for personal events or parent work commitments.

Routine appointments should be made outside of school hours. 

• Please send an email before 8.30am to Info@st-james.richmond.sch.uk.
  • Child’s name
  • Class name
  • Reason for early collection
  • Supporting evidence of the appointment (this can be a text message or screen shot of the apt.).

• The school may encounter delays collecting your child, children should be collected a minimum of at least 1 hour before the appointment time (factoring in travel time).

• If the school has received a high volume of early requests for that morning or afternoon. You may be contacted for an alternate collection time,  Typically you will be requested to collect your child at noon. This is to collate the requests to set times, to minimise disruption to other children's class room learning.  

• We always advise children to go straight to an appointment if it is before 11.00am.