School Policies

The following documents are available for viewing by application to the School Office. Where summaries of policies are available they are given below. Underlined titles in the list below are click-able links to the summary for that policy.

• National Curriculum documents and Department for Children, Schools and Families circulars and Statutory Instruments regarding the curriculum.
• The School's Aims and Objectives.
• The School's Policies and Schemes of Work.
• The School's Policy for Special Educational Needs and Inclusion.
• Minutes of Governor's meetings.
• OFSTED Inspection Report and Action Plan.
• The School's Complaints Procedure
• Teacher's termly planning for each age group.
• The School's Policy for Behaviour and Discipline.
• The School's Policy for Child Protection.
• The School's Policy for Diversity, Equality & Anti-Racism.
• The School's Charging and Remission Policy.
• The School's Disability Equality Scheme.

Other information is available by request under the 'Freedom of Information Act'.

Raising Concerns & Resolving Complaints

From time to time parents, and others connected with the school, may have concerns. To encourage resolution of such situations the Governing Body has adopted a 'General Complaints Procedure'.

The procedure is devised with the intention that it will:

• Usually be possible to resolve problems by informal means.
• Be simple to use and understand.
• Be non-adversarial.
• Provide confidentiality.
• Allow problems to be handled swiftly.
• Address all the points at issue.
• Inform future practice so that the problem is unlikely to recur.

Full details of the procedure may be obtained from the School Office or from the Clerk to the Governing Body.

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Behaviour and Discipline - summary.

The school has a behaviour and discipline policy that is followed by all staff.

School rules are positive and are straight forward for the children to remember. Children are encouraged to show care and consideration towards others and to develop self discipline and make the right choices. We find that high standards of behaviour contribute to effective learning. Good behaviour and effort is rewarded with weekly 'Golden Time', 'Merit Awards' and 'Cool Awards' (for kindness and consideration towards others) and 'Learning to be Clever Awards' in KS1 and KS2. The School runs a 'house-point' system at KS2 to provide challenge and competition. The houses are named after castles: Windsor (colour - red), Dover (colour - blue), Arundel (colour - green) and Hever (colour - yellow).

Parents are informed of the code of conduct when their child joins the school and are asked to sign a home/school agreement. Parental co-operation is very much valued.

Parents are contacted if their child persistently misbehaves and arrangements are drawn up so that parents and school can work together to improve behaviour.

The children are asked to remember:

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Charging and Remission Policy

The Governors have adopted the Local Authority's charging and remission policy. They have agreed to authorise the Headteacher to seek payment for breakages etc., in conjunction with the school's code of discipline.

Contributions are requested from parents to cover class visits or special events, but are voluntary.

There is a voluntary school fund to which parents are asked to contribute. This is used to provide additional resources for the curriculum such as books. The guidelines are £20 for each child or £30 for a family for each school year. Click on the link below to see the letter. (The file is in pdf format, you will need Adobe Reader to read the file - click on the link below to get to the free download page on the Adobe website.)

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Disability Equality Scheme

Our school has a Disability Equality Scheme (DES) to ensure equality of opportunity is in place for all our pupils, staff, parents and visitors. A copy of our Disability Equality Scheme document is available here to view and print, or a copy can be obtained from the School Office.

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