Safeguarding during the holidays

Whilst school is closed, here are some useful phone numbers and websites for anyone who may be struggling or who is worried about a child.

  • Children’s Social Care 03001236720 – To report concerns about a child’s welfare/neglect
  • NSPCC 08088005000 – Support for parents and to report child abuse

Phone and online support for anyone who needs someone to talk to

  • Hyndburn Food Pantry 01254399460, 27 Broadway, Accrington – Food donations for anyone who needs them
  • Maundy Relief foodbank 01254232328 – Food donations for anyone who needs them
  • Oswaldtwistle Hub/Accrington Hub Rhyddings Methodist Church/Cambridge Street Methodist Church – Free good quality second hand school uniforms – **Check opening times as this is not every day**
  • The Hollins safeguarding team https://swgfl.org.uk/whisper/hol1/ – This will be checked regularly, but not every day; use one of the other services for emergency support or advice

WELCOME FROM Mrs H.Dougan, Acting Headteacher

Welcome to our website. I hope that the information you find here starts to give you a feel for who we are as a school. We are fully comprehensive and serve a differing catchment area across Accrington and the surrounding area. We are not too big, at around 800 pupils, but big enough that we give our pupils enough opportunities to interact in a diverse community. We pride ourselves on the positive relationships that exist within the school.

Our children feel safe at school and are confident that the staff are here to see them through five important years of education and development. Our seven core values express our very essence, and you can talk to any member of staff or pupil about how important these are to us: they underpin every action in the school so that our pupils understand what is required of them in the real world.

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Obviously academic achievement is of the utmost importance to us, but we simply do not ignore the development of character and citizenship; hence being kind, honest, resilient, reflective, respectful, responsible and aspirational individuals is celebrated and valued.

Our parents are extremely important to us too – they are essential to a child’s learning and development; hence we try and encourage as much communication as possible between school and home. We invest heavily in both time and money to be able to support parents with the rocky road of “the teenage years” – a notoriously difficult path to tread! We continue to strive to make further improvements in this area, and we listen closely to what our parents say in order to continually improve our delivery of support.

Please do not hesitate to come and look round our school if you are thinking of sending your child to The Hollins – we would be proud to open our doors to you and you will receive a very warm welcome from pupils and staff alike.

Mrs H Dougan
Acting Headteacher

Kind
Honest
Resilient
Reflective
Respectful
Responsible
Aspirational

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