The School will:
- Provide a welcoming and safe environment for learning
- Deliver a broad curriculum that will inspire, challenge and prepare all students for their future as adults in the Twenty First Century.
- Meet the needs of students with additional learning needs (SEN and Gifted and Talented)
- Support learning through the delivery of well planned and resourced lessons and high quality teaching
- Provide moral guidance and role models for your child
- Praise and reward students for their achievements, participation and good behaviour
- Regularly set, mark and monitor meaningful homework following the homework timetable.
- Provide up to date and timely information about the school’s events
- Communicate in easily accessible ways, individual targets, current levels of attainment and information about how to improve the quality of work to parents and to students
- Insist on high standards of behaviour and work with parents to achieve this
- Deal with problems in a professional, fair and consistent manner
- Provide opportunities for students to adopt a healthy lifestyle
- Provide opportunities for students to take responsibility and be involved in decision making
- Provide opportunities for students to learn about, experience and contribute to the wider community.
- Ensure that students feel safe from bullying, racism and any other form of negative stereotyping and deal effectively, promptly and supportively with any incidents which arise
As a Student I will:
- Support the school’s ethos and policies
- Make a positive contribution to College life
- Arrive at school and at lessons on time every day, ready to learn and properly equipped
- Get involved
- Help others
- Aim to do my best in everything I do and participate fully in lessons
- Listen to and act on the advice given to me about how to improve my work
- Report any concerns I have to a parent or an adult in school
- Be polite to all members of the school community
- Be honest and exhibit good behaviour at all times
- Comply with the Internet access policy
- Understand the need to adopt a healthy lifestyle
- Treat the school’s facilities and equipment with respect
- Treat all members of our school community and their belongings with respect, in and outside school
- Spend an appropriate length of time on my homework to ensure it is completed to the best of my ability
- Make a positive contribution to our school community
Parents/ Guardians will:
- Use my child’s college Mentor as my first point of contact
- Ensure that my child attends regularly and on time and is equipped to learn
- Do your best to provide an appropriate environment and time at home to enable your child to complete their homework
- Monitor your child’s work
- Avoid taking holidays in term time unless absolutely necessary
- Support my child’s learning at home
- Whenever possible, attend meetings at school about my child’s progress
- If possible, access the on – line information about my child’s progress
- Work with the school to try and make sure that my child behaves well
- Encourage my child to take advantage of healthily lifestyle opportunities at school
- Report any concerns I have about bullying, racism and any other form of negative stereotyping immediately to the school
- Reply to school communications and supply absence notes promptly
- Provide my child with the full school uniform and insist that the regulations for uniform and appearance are met.