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Pastoral Care
All teachers and support staff within the class base undertake pastoral
care. In addition Key
Stage co-ordinators, the Deputy Head Teacher and Head Teacher undertake
pastoral work.
The Home-School Partnership
We know that you wish your child to grow up to be a capable, responsible
and competent young person, respecting and caring for other people and
property. We believe that your child will get the maximum benefit from
school if you are well informed about what happens here so that we can
work together as partners in helping him/her to learn the skills and
knowledge needed for today's changing society. A positive and supportive
relationship between home and school really helps pupils' attitudes
and behaviour and will also help towards improving the quality of their
work whilst they are with us.
You, Your Child and the School
Our aim is to make your child happy and secure by providing an environment
in which all pupils'
can reach their potential. We set high standards in all areas of school
life and we hope that our pupils will achieve a set of values to help
them take their place in this rapidly changing society. We want our
pupils to be tolerant, understanding and respectful of the rights of
others in a caring environment, which is supportive of the needs of
all our pupils, their parents, families and staff in school.
Child Protection
All schools have a legal duty to comply with national guidance on child
protection procedure.
These procedures are avail able for inspection in school. Under these
procedures the school has a named person for child protection matters
- the Special Needs Coordinator. In the ever of suspected child abuse
school will automatically follow these procedures.
Relationships and Sex Education
Sex education is taught through certain aspects of the National Curriculum
in Science where
pupils are required to know about some aspects of how animals and plants
reproduce
themselves. This part of the science curriculum is compulsory for all
pupils.
However, we do teach a programme of relationships and sex education
to the oldest pupils in
Key Stage 2. This is done sensitively, in year groups and gender groups
as appropriate
The school nurse works alongside school staff in these sessions and
is available to meet governors and parents before the programme starts.
Parents can then discuss the resources - included in the video . being
used. Parents have the right to withdraw their children from this initiative.
The emphasis in school for all our work is always on the need for
kind, loving relationships an« this is also emphasised in P.S.H.C.E.
(personal, social health and citizenship education) and in
R.E. It is school policy that any questions asked by pupils will be
answered in an appropriate
manner by staff, bearing in mind the child's age and understanding.
This emphasises the
positive, caring environments are essential for the development of
a good self-image and the
individuals are in charge of, and responsible for, their own bodies.
It enables pupils to 'fee
good' and comfortable with themselves as they grow into adults and
encourages pupils that
have regard to moral considerations and the value of family life.
Health education and P.S.H.C.E. form an important part of the school
curriculum. We havE
visits from the school dentist and the school nurses as part of our
normal programmes a
work. As part of our P.S.H.C.E curriculum we also work closely with
other agencies or
relationships, team building, drugs awareness etc.
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