Payments

St Mary's is a cashless School.

Please make all payments via Arbor (our School online payment system) and speak to the school office if you have any queries.

Link to the Arbor payment system

School Fund

As a Voluntary Aided School we ask for an annual contribution of £30.00 for the Diocesan Fund. This should be paid before your child starts school and then every September after that. You can also pay £10.00 a term if preferred. Payment method is via Arbor. ​
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The reason we ask for this contribution is that we do not receive help from Lewisham for any repairs and maintenance to the outside of the School building. The Southwark Diocese administer an External Maintenance Scheme based on a pattern of voluntary parental giving, providing a fund for governors from which their 10% contribution is required for maintenance projects. The remainder of the money collected is used to enable the school to help pupils where needed i.e.  to part finance school trips/journeys.
It is part of your commitment when sending your child to a church school.

Passports

Staff are often asked to sign applications for passports on behalf of children. This has become increasingly time consuming and may later involve resolving queries with the passport office. Parents are asked to bear in mind that this is not an entitlement or part of a teacher’s job; it is something teachers do in their own time if they feel it is appropriate.
 
At St Mary’s School it will be the Headteacher who will countersign any application or will give authority to any other teacher in the school to countersign an application. The application form can be found below or a hard copy can be requested from the school office.

Passport Countersigning request form 
 
When countersigning a passport application, we are confirming that:

1. we have known the parent who signed the form (not the child) for at least 2 years
2. the parent is who you say you are
3. everything in the form is true as far as we know

 
For hard copy applications, we will write the following on the back of one photo:
 
‘I certify that this is a true likeness of [title and full name of adult or child who is getting the passport].’
 
We will add a signature and the date under the statement.
 
Please be aware it is a criminal offence to make a false declaration on a passport application and school reserve the right to not countersign a passport application if we are either too busy or not sure about any information supplied on the form.
 
From 3 June 2024, we will request a £20 contribution to the school for each passport application.