Policies

Health and Absence Policy

Summary of our Special Education

Behaviour and Discipline Policy

Bullying Policy

Internet Use Policy

Safety Audit Report

 

Health and Absence

Home School Agreement

Holy Redeemer Catholic Primary School

Home School Agreement

Mission Statement

Through the Holy Redeemer we seek to grow in faith and Love and become great people who make a difference in our world.

At Holy Redeemer we recognise that the education of our children ia a shared responsibility. We each have our part to play. We welcome your support, value your involvement and are pleased to see you in school.

Holy Redeemer will:

• Put Christ at the centre of every aspect of our school. Your child is on a journey of faith.
• Ensure your child is safe on the school premises and during school trips and to contact you should there be a problem
• Deliver a broad balance curriculum which meets the needs of your child.
• Develop your child’s physical and social well being, fostering confidence, self worth and a sense of belonging.
• Provide a range of after school activities designed to enrich your child’s experience.
• Set appropriate homework
• Expect the best from your child in behaviour and their learning
• Keep you fully informed of new topics to be studied and your child’s progress
• Take all appropriate measures to ensure that your child remains safe when using online resources

Agreement for Parents/Carers

To help my child at school, I intend to:

• Support the Christian ethos of the school by attending our Whole School celebrations of the Mass and class assemblies.
• Make sure my child arrives in school at or before 8.50 a.m. and is collected on time.
• Encourage my child to do their best at all times
• Read to and with my child and encourage my child to complete homework tasks ion time.
• To provide my child with the school uniform and suitable clothes for school activities
• Contact the school as soon as possible, by phone or in writing, if my child is absent.
• Avoid booking holidays in school time
• Attend termly Parents Evenings
• Ensure that my child is aware of the e safety advice provided by the school
• Maintain the  integrity of the school’s learning platform

Signed…………………………………………………………….The Parent/Guardian of

………………………………………………………………………….Class………………

Agreement for pupils

I will try to:

• Enjoy school and help others to do the same

 

• Always try to do my best in my lessons

 

 

• Remember to be polite and thoughtful towards others

 

• Bring all the equipment I need every day

 

 

• Read at home and do my homework, bringing it back on time

 

• Take good care of the school environment

 

 

• Follow the school’s e safety rules when on line at school and at home.

 

Signed………………………………………………………………………………..Class

 

 

 

Healthy Eating

 

We encourage our children to eat a healthy diet. At break time children must only eat fruit. Fruit is provided free for all children from Reception to Year 2.Filtered chilled water can be drunk at any time in school at the discretion of their teacher. Children must bring their own named bottle.

 

School Lunches

 

Payment 

 

Please ensure that payment for meals is sent into school on Friday. The cost of the hot school meals is £1.70 per day. Parents are requested to use the envelopes supplied by Class Catering and to circle the days when meals are required. Envelopes can be bought from the office.

 

Absence

 

All schools are required to keep rigorous records of the reasons for absence of all children of legal school age. There are two categories of absence authorised and unauthorised. Parents who do not send a message giving a valid explanation for the absence of their children will have the absence classed as unauthorised. The numbers of unauthorised absence have to be published as an aggregated percentage.

 

1.If your child is going to be absent, perhaps for a dental appointment please let the teacher know in advance. 

 

2.If your child is absent for any length of time please telephone the school if at all possible. If this is not possible please write a note to school explaining the absence on your child's return, or speak the teacher personally. 

 

3.If your child is absent for part of the day but will be coming later that day, please telephone to let us know.

 

4.When picking your child up for an appointment or if taking your child home if they are ill please come into the reception area and ring the bell for assistance.

 

Lateness

 

School starts when the whistle is blown at 8.50a.m. All lateness will be recorded in our register. Please try to ensure that your child is on time.

 

 

Summary of our Special Educational Needs

 

At any time children may have a special need of some kind, educational, social, emotional or behavioural. All can affect children's happiness and development. 

 

Please let the school know as soon as possible if there are changes in home or health circumstances that may be affecting your child's progress in school. 

 

At Holy Redeemer we aim to cater for individual needs. Provision is available for some children, where necessary, to be given additional help on a regular basis. In consultation with parents children are given an IEP (Individual Education Plan). Progress is regularly monitored and parents will be invited to work closely with teachers involved. The school endeavours to work within the County's guidelines, which emphasises the process of identification and assessment as recommended in the Code of Practice for Special Needs. 

 

Under certain circumstances we will call upon the support services provided by the LEA. 

 

Holy Redeemer is always working in the interests of all pupils and it may be necessary on rare occasions to refer a child causing concern to Social Services, There are very strict guidelines drawn up by the LEA, which we, of course follow.  

 

Our Child Protection Policy is available for parents to read in our entrance hall.

 

Feeling Secure

• We take great care at Holy Redeemer to ensure that children start school feeling happy and secure.
• During the summer term before they start school our Reception teacher visits every child at home to discuss any anxieties that parents may have about their child.
• We ask parents to support the school by signing our Home School Agreement
• Children have the opportunity to visit their classroom and take part in afternoon activities in the summer term before they start school.

Active Learning

 

Forest School

 

At Holy Redeemer we believe that children should be actively engaged in their learning. During their time in Reception and Year 1/2 children visit a small wooded area where they spend the morning exploring their environment in a very child centred way. The morning is led by very experienced staff and the children are dressed so that they are happy to get as muddy as they like!

 

 

Our Outdoor Classroom

 

Our central courtyard is used by Reception and Class 2 and by our ECO Club to grow vegetables, fruit and herbs.

Children have been actively involved in planning their outdoor classroom. Our site includes two climbing areas, a pond, a willow structure, a bird feeding area and a mural. All of these areas have been built in partnership with children and parents and are in use regularly.

 

Taking an Active Role in decision Making 

 

We encourage our children to take an active part in changing our school for the better.

 

School Councillors

 

Children from Class 3, 4 &5 have elected their own Councillors who represent their Classes views at meetings with the Head teacher.

 

School Prefects

 

Our Year 6 take their role as Prefects very seriously and work very hard to be ambassadors for our school.

 

ECO Committee

We have an active ECO Committee who meet regularly to monitor the use of the schools resources.

 

 

Healthy Schools

 

In 2006 we achieved the Healthy Schools award.  We are working toward becoming a Healthy School and encourage children to walk and bike to school when this is possible.

 

Car Parking

 

In the interest of safety for all, please do not park at the front of the school. This is used as a dropping off point for the children coming to school by mini bus.

The parish of Holy Redeemer allow us to use their car park for the purpose of dropping off/collecting children from school.

 

 

Playtime

 

 

 

Bullying

 

 

The school has an active anti bullying policy as part of our behaviour policy. The policy is available to parents in our entrance hall.If parents suspect their child is being bullied in any way it is essential that the school is notified and immediate steps will be taken. 

 

Parents and School 

 

We see education in its widest sense as a partnership between the child, the parents and the school. We seek to foster the strongest possible links with parents and involve them in their child's learning.

 

How can parents help?

• By helping with work when it comes home, especially reading.
• By helping in school or by offering any particular skill or expertise.
• By helping with school visits and outings.
• By supporting our school Parent Teacher Association.

  

 

  How will parents know what is happening?

• Regular newsletter sent out by the school.
• Messages are displayed on a white board in the playground.
• Termly Parents Evenings.
• Annual Report to Parents by the Governing Body.
• Annual Open Day.
• Opportunities to come to tea afternoons and social events.
• We are developing our new website.

 

Safety Audit

Holy Redeemer Catholic Primary School

Security Check List: March 2009

 

• All Key holders are listed and named: List held by Head

 

• All personnel working with children have completed an enhanced CRB check

 

Main Entrance

 

• Door from lobby is kept locked at all time.

• All visitors and Governors sign in at reception

• Visitors will be asked for identification

• If not wearing own identification a Visitor badge will be provided.

 

Building and Playground Safety

 

• Each morning the Caretaker unlocks and deactivates the alarm and internal doors and fire doors are opened. The main door is then relocked. Head /staff arrive: 8.00 a.m.

 

• Caretaker makes a visual sweep of the playground. If syringes or other substances are found these will be dealt with following an agreed procedure.

 

• Children start arriving 8.15/8.30 am. Parents have been made aware that their children are unsupervised until 8.50 a.m. when the teacher on duty blows a whistle.

 

• Children line up with their prefects and are escorted into school under the supervision of the teacher on duty.

 

•  Reception door is closed by Reception teacher or LSA.

 

• Class 2,3,5 enter via side entrance: door closed by Class 3: LSA.

 

• Class 4 enter and leave at home time via side entrance into classroom. Door opened and closed by teacher/LSA

 

• All external doors are fire doors and cannot be opened from the outside.

 

• From 10.03.09 locks will be placed on metal gate to road at 8.50a.m. and following the departure of parents from playground in the morning a lock will be placed on gate leading up the path  to church.

 

• Late children report to main entrance.

 

Lunchtime

 

• Locks will remain on pedestrian gate to road and gate leading up path to church.

      There is always at least one of three Lunchtime Supervisors on the playground

• All children use Reception toilets and do not go out of site into Junior corridor.

• Children are escorted into class at Lunchtime by Prefects under the supervision of Lunchtime Supervisors who ensure doors are closed.

 

At the end of Afternoon Play

• Locks will be removed at the end of playtime by the staff member on duty.

 

External Boundaries

• Beech hedging provides an additional barrier to metal fencing. Where there are gaps in hedge, new planting completed March 09.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“...This school provides its pupils with an outstanding education, both in their academic achievements and in their personal development...”

 

OFSTED report June 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

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