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Parental Involvement Parents in School We actively encourage you to be involved in school life. Each September we send a letter home asking parents and other relatives if they wish to help in school. Some of the activities include time spent in classrooms, the libraries, school educational trips, helping with sports’ teams, etc. We try to use as much of your expertise as possible and hope that you will always feel welcome in our school. We not only have relatives of the children helping in school but also retired teachers, retired craftsmen and many more besides. We now need to carry out police checks on all our volunteers and anyone working with our children needs a CRB check. Birthdays We discourage sweets and chocolate from being brought in to school when children have a birthday. Instead parents are requested to buy a book for the classroom or send in a healthy option e.g. fresh fruit or dried raisins. Fruit Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 children are given a piece of fruit each day as part of the National Fruit Scheme. In Key Stage 2 children can buy fruit from the fruit tuck shop at morning break. The cost is currently 20p per piece. Children from our School Council run the tuck shop. Parent Teacher Association We have a very supportive Parent Teacher Association who work alongside staff for the enrichment of the children’s education. Various functions are organised which we hope you will attend. You are automatically a member of the PTA when your child starts school. You will be a welcome to come to the PTA meetings, details are sent home in a letter each term. The PTA also have their own page on this web site. Charities We feel children should gain experience in helping others and so we support charity work throughout the year, helping different causes. We hold fund-raising activities organised by the children and staff. At least once a year, we collect for a local charity. Complaints Sometimes parents can become anxious about events in school. If this should happen, please arrange to see the class teacher, if appropriate, as soon as possible so that the concern can be dealt with rapidly. If the problem is not resolved to parents’ satisfaction a meeting with the appropriate Unit Leader should be arranged. If you need to see the Head Teacher, please contact the Secretary so that she can arrange an appropriate appointment. It is easier to resolve a problem while everybody remains calm and this is the aim of the school when a problem occurs. You can see an abridged version of our complaints procedure here Homework We set homework tasks for the children from the Reception class upwards and ask parents to be involved to support their child in the set tasks. This helps you understand what is taking place in school and gives a positive message about homework to your child. In Years 5 & 6, a homework diary is kept as the amount of homework increases and you will be expected to sign the diary to say that you child has completed their homework. Jewellery and Make-Up For health and safety reasons we do not permit jewellery in school. If a child has pierced ears, we request that he/she wears stud earrings only, to avoid nasty accidents which can happen when a large number of children are together. On PE days, no jewellery should be worn at all, so please ensure your child does not wear stud earrings on those days. If a watch is worn it is the child’s responsibility to look after it. We ask that children in Key Stage 1 (Reception Class, Year 1 and Year 2) should not wear watches. Make-up, acrylic nails and nail varnish must not be worn by children in school. Lost Property Please will you see that all personal property has the child’s name clearly marked on it. The children should not be allowed to bring expensive toys or mobile phones to school or to wear valuable watches, as we cannot be held responsible for any items which are lost in school. We do have lost property boxes. If something is missing, enquiries should be made to the class teacher or unit leader, in the first instance. Medicines If your child requires medicines on a long or short-term basis while at school, please see the School Secretary so that you can fill in the permission form for administration of the medicine. Inhalers can be given to class teachers for use in emergencies. These must be clearly labelled with the child’s name. Marking Policy Children’s books are marked on a regular basis with comments intended to help the child based on the objectives of the lesson. We do not always correct every mistake in a piece of work. The teacher will have a set of criteria that needs to be addressed within a given task. Children are also asked to mark their own work from time to time and this will be discussed with the class teacher. Open Evenings We have three parents’ evenings, one for the setting of targets in the autumn term, one for discussing progress in the spring and one in the summer to discuss end of year progress and the school report. We also hold an open afternoon at the end of the school year. The evenings, one in the autumn term and one in the spring term, are organised on an appointment system. These are for you to discuss matters arising from your child’s education with the class teacher. The summer term open afternoon is a chance for you to look at your child’s work with your child. Annual school reports are issued every July.
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