Trustees. Annual Report for the period Penod stsrt date Penod end date From 01 2023 To 31 Aug 2024 Section A Reference and administration details Charlty name. Our Lady of Czes1￿1)￿a Polish Schty)I Other names charlty Is known by Polska Szkoia im. Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej Reglstered charlty nUrn￿r (If any) 1175364 Charlty's prlnclpal address 175 Cadingford Road London Postcodo N15 3ET Nome8 of the charlty trustses who m•n•g• th• charlty Tru•t•• n•m• offl￿ {Il•ny) Dat•• aGt•d rf not forwh•l• Nam• tsf p•rnon lor body) •ntiV•d to appoint trulteg Ilf Stanislawa CopFd8 Dorota Piela Jolanta Kalincmska Piotr Wojdyla Renata Turrell Chair Andrzej JastrLebski Juli8 Moszumanski 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Names of tho trustees for the Charlty, If any, (for example, any custodian trustees) Name Dates acted If not for whole ear TAR March 2012 Names and addresses of advisors (Optional inforniatlon) e of advisor Name Address Name of chief executive or names of senlor staff member6 (Optional infomiation) Section B Structure, overnance and mana ement Descrlptlon of the charlty's trusts ,'cio Type of goveming d￿uff￿nt How the charity is constituted Assoaation Trustee selection methods Appointed by trustees Addltlonal governance Is•uos (Opllonal Infomiatlon) You may choose to indude additional information, where relevant. about", A board of commrttee members. all of whom are volunteers, is responsible for the week lo week running of the scho￿. The commrttee answers to Ihe board of trustees. The commrttee works dongside the Headtead)er to provide whatever •Jministrati¥E assistance is required. policies and procedures adooed for the induction and training of trustees., Ihe charity s organisational structure and any wider ne￿Ork wth which the charity works.. The schocA has a dose associats'on with the Polish Educationel Society which prowdes educational support. advice and training for the teaching staff.. the local Polish parish Church - religious educats'on is provided by the priests and c2techist; The Polish Scouts Assoriation - after lessons pupils have the opportunrty lo join activtties at the same location. relationship with any related parties: Irustees, consideration of major risks and Ihe system and procedures to manage them. Section C Ob"ectives and activities The advancement of education for public benefrt by providing a Saturday Summary of the objects of the I school with dasses in the Polish language. cutture and heritage, and the charity set out in its Roman CatlK)lic relIg￿n for pupils aged >18 govemlng document TAR March 2012 Classes are available to anyone who is interested in leaming about the cumure, history or gecYJraphy of Poland and the Polish language. All dasses are held in Polish. Most pupils have some ¢xJnnection or at least one parent or grandparent of Polish origin; some PU￿1$ will have been bom in Poland whilst most are now UK bom: occasionally we have students who wsh to attend for other reasons. The schcNJl maintains strong links with the local Polish parish - the priests and catechists take the RE lessons and help prepare the children for the sacraments ol communion. RC masses are ￿lebrated at the school - tradrtionally they will be celebrated at the beginning and end of the year with additional masses organised for specrfic occasions. Summary ofthe maln actlvltJes undortaken for the public benefft In relation to those objects (include within thls sectlon the statutory de¢laratlon that trustees hav• had regard to thè guldanco Issued by the Charlty Commlsslon on publlc benefftl Committee membeTr are responsible for the general running of the school Committee meetings are held. as and when required throughout the year to deal with any issues should the arise and to plan forthcoming events. All teachers and commrtlee members ha￿ DBS checks. All necessary policies and procedures are in place and are updated regularly They include. hea￿h & safety. safeguarding, GDPR, equal opportunities. WhIs￿eb10win9 etc. Addltlonal detslls of obJoctJv•8 and actlvttl•s (Optlonal Infonnatlonl You may chooso to indude further statements, where relevant, about.. policy on grantmaking., policy programme related investment,. contribution made by volunteers. TAR March 2012 Section D Achievements and performance Summary ofthe main achievements of the charity durlng the year This academic year there We￿ 324 registered pupils and 33 teachers. Puixl numbers were once again d¢Jwn on the previous year and this trend is likely to continue as a combin*'on of Ityèver birth rate and Brexit There was a Small reshuffle of teaching staff - three new members coming in to cover gaps left by a teacher taking a maternity break, one teacher who left to retum to Poland and a teacher who spent ts'me volunteering in Africa. One of our past pupils retumed to do work experience at the school with the intents'on of going inlo teaching. The Autumn temi finished with a Mass. followed by a Nativity Play perfomied as is the tradition in our school by children in Year ￿0. As per tradrtion Saint Nicholas was on hand to distribute small gifts to the children. Throughout the year pupils are encouraged to lake part in competitions- this year the Polish Educational Soaety organised a competition about Nicolas Copemiojs (Mik0￿1 Kopemikl- three of our pupils did extremely well attaining a tr. and 3 pl￿ and highly commended in their age groups. At the end of the spring temi in the lead up to Easter, the Stations of the Cross were reaenacled by Year 5 pupils. This year the event wa$ filmed and a short dip was shown on Polish TV. A trip was organised for the pu￿18 to Laxton Hall to celebrate Children's day. This is an annual event organised by The Polish Catholic Mission and The Polish Educational Socjety and 1$ an opportunity for our pupils to meet children from Polish Saturday schods from around the country and also take part in inter School eventslc4)mpetitions 811 hdd outdwrs. At the beginning of 2024 the School was infomied of the passing of the fomier headteacher of the 8chool. School ￿preSen1th've$ attended the funeral. This year the Polish Scouts took part in the X Worfd ScoLrt$ Jamboree which was held in USA. The school supported our local groups thus enabling mre ofthem to lake part in the event. One of our troops attained 1° place as the best overall camp. something that they worked very hard to 8th18￿. This year the school introduced afterschool folklore dancing dasses for children in years 14. The children were taught a few regional dan￿S which they were alJe to perfonn at the end of the year. This is in addstion to the Krakcmiak that is tradrtionally perfomied by year 1 22 pupils from our school &it the Polish GCSE exam and 2 sat the AL exam. All pupils attained high pass grades. the majonty attaining a grade 8 or 9 (GCSE) TAR Mareh 2012 Section E Financial review The school has a reserve policy in pla￿ to ensure that sufficient funds are available which would enable the school to operate for 1- 2 academic years should there be a reduced income. This is ￿¢￿)mIng rn0￿ important as pupil numbers are sl(ywly beginning to dedine. Brief statement of the charity's policy on reserves Detsils of any funds materialty in deficit nla Furth•r financial rov1￿ details (Optional information) You may choos• to indude additional information. where relevant about.. the charity's principal sources of funds (induding any fundr8isingl- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the chanty.. investment pjlicy and objedives induding any ethical investment Fdicy adopted. The principal Sour￿ of funds is through contributions towards the fees. Funds are also raised through on-srte activth'es. This year the Scho￿ recaived donations from Stowarzyszenie 'WspOlnota Polska,. The largest expense is Ihe hire of the school premises followed by wages for the teachiryJ staff (at just over the minimal wage) and the tre8surer. Section F Other optional information Section G Declaration The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees, report above. Signed on behalf of the charlty's trustees Signaturels) .ILLYrC Full namelsl Positlon leg Secretsry, Chalr. etc) Renata Turrell Stanislawa oppola Trustee Trustee TAR March 2012 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Our Laty ol CzMtochow• Polish School 117S364 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For th• ￿ri0￿ from To 0110912023 3110812024 Section A Receipts and payments Unrestricte