St Peter's is a cashless school.  Parents are able to join ParentPay, which is a secure online payment system that replaces cash payments for trips, events, activities and school-led clubs (including breakfast club) in schools.  ParentPay is easy to use, secure and protects your details.  You can top up your account when you want, using a credit or debit card, so you can budget money for trips, clubs and activities.

It is important that you download the "School Gateway" app and set it up on your phone in order to receive messages from us and also pay for educational visits, book breakfast club and teacher-led after school clubs.  The set up is simple and will hopefully take no more than a couple of minutes -

1. Search for "School Gateway" in the Apple App Store/Google Play or on your phone go to www.schoolgateway.com/apple (Apple) or www.schoolgateway.com/android (Android).

2. Install the app and if you are asked then say yes to "allow push notifications".

3. When you launch School Gateway for the first time, please select "new user" and enter the email address and mobile phone number you have registered with the school.

4. The system will send a PIN code to your phone; please enter this PIN code and the app will be activated for you.  As soon as you've got the system set up, all of the trips, messages we send will appear in the app; you will receive notifications/alerts as normal.

To find out more about ParentPay visit www.parentpay.com

Benefits to parents

• Online payments with the ability to store payment card details for faster payments
• Easy to use, 24/7 online customer portal
• View transition history online
• No more writing cheques or sending cash to school

Financial Contributions

There are occasions when the school asks parents/carers to make a financial contribution.  This may include:

• School trips – usually 2 or 3 per year (between £5 – £25 per trip)
• Swimming lessons – years 4 & 5 only (approximately £7 per session)
• Breakfast Club (£4.00 per session) and after school clubs
• Y6 residential trip in the summer term – approximately £200
• Visits from companies to complement curriculum topics – up to £10 per visit
• School Photos: between £9 – £25
• PTA events eg film nights (approximately £5.00 per ticket)
• Ad hoc events, for example, non-uniform/dress-up days for charity (usually £1 each time), cooking and other curriculum projects
• Clubs and other tuition eg Cricket, Art, French, Music lessons - various costs

Please do get in touch if you wish to discuss any of the above in confidence (also refer to our charging policy).