Useful Information

Pastoral Care

Pastoral care is considered very important and a variety of support strategies are available if needed. Each student’s welfare is the special responsibility of their form teacher who may refer any problem to the Head of Year. The Heads of Year are responsible to Senior Staff for the overall pastoral care of their group. Contact Details for the Pastoral Care Team can be found here.

Student Well-being

In this section of our website you will find useful websites and information about a range of issues for both parents and students. Our Student Well-being page can be found here.

Student Absence

Please help us to support your child and ensure that they achieve their best through excellent attendance at school. Parents/carers are asked to advise the School by telephone or email, before 8.15am if possible, each day a student is going to be absent.
Student Absence Telephone:
01920 462210 – Option 1
Student Absence Email:
attendance@presdales.herts.sch.uk

Appointments during school hours

Please email attendance@presdales.herts.sch.uk to notify us of an appointment during the school day. Please ensure your child signs out and then back in at Reception.

Picking up Students After School

A reminder that parents should not be driving onto the school site at the end of the day to pick up their child as we need the driveway to be clear for the school buses. Parents can pick up onsite after 3.40pm.

Students unwell at School

If students feel ill during the school day they should ask their teacher if they can go to see our Principal First Aider in the First Aid Room or, if she is unavailable, go to Reception. Students may not go home unless this is arranged by the First Aider/Reception, their Head of Year or a member of the Senior Leadership Team. They should not ring their parents directly. Please do not come and collect your daughter until you have received an official telephone call from the school. In a large number of cases, after a short break in the First Aid Room, girls are able to continue with their day.

If a student needs to take medication during the school day, it must be kept in the First Aid Room and permission given by parents/carers for it to be administered. This includes all items which have a restriction of the number of doses to be taken in a certain period i.e. Strepsils, paracetamol, ibuprofen etc.

Lost Property

Lost property is kept in a cupboard outside the First Aid Room. Lost property that is particularly valuable is kept in the First Aid Room until the end of the school year and disposed of during the summer holidays. Lost PE Kits and trainers are kept by the PE department in the Sports Hall. Clothing, shoes and miscellaneous items are recycled at the end of each term. If your child has lost anything at school, please urge them to come to the First Aid Room and look for it before the end of term. If named items are found, the students are emailed and asked to collect from the lost property cupboard. To reduce the amount of unnamed lost property, we would be grateful if you could please make sure items of clothing and other personal belongings (e.g. bags, pencil cases etc.) are named. PE kits should also be clearly named as we have lots of girls with the same initials and we can’t always locate their owners. All students must be responsible and accountable for their own property at all times

Parents dropping off items to their children

If you need to drop off an essential item during the day, please put the item in a named bag on the table in the porch next to Reception. Please inform your child so they can come and collect either at break or lunchtime.

Change of contact details

If any of your contact details have changed, including email addresses, please update EduLink or notify the school by emailing admin@presdales.herts.sch.uk.

WisePay App

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Presdales unique organisation code for Wisepay is 37131546

Facilities for Hire

 Please direct anyone you know who may be interested in hiring the swimming pool, sports hall, classrooms, field etc. out of school hours to our Facilities for Hire webpage here.

Social Wall

Are you on Facebook? Do you have Twitter? Please click on the links below to join our school accounts or visit our social wall.

Presdales (formerly WGS) Alumni

Please help us reach out to our former students using your own networks. From doctors to dancers, pilots to plumbers, we need alumni from a range of careers to open our students’ eyes to what’s possible.

If you are a former student or know of any who’d like to stay in touch and give back to their old school, ask them to sign up at: https://networks.futurefirst.org.uk/former-student/presdales

We’d love to hear from the girls – and boys – of previous years.