Home School Agreement

As a school

We will do our best to:

  • Support your child’s wellbeing and safety by providing a safe, supportive and caring environment.
  • Help and encourage your child to reach their full potential.
  • To teach your child about our school values of friendship, respect, perseverance, honesty, happiness, forgiveness, kindness and responsibility.
  • Teach your child to develop a positive attitude to others, regardless age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, marriage or civil partnership.
  • Monitor and communicate with parents and carers regularly on your child’s progress.
  • Provide a broad and balanced curriculum that caters for all children, including when delivered remotely.
  • Promote high standards of behaviour so we can maintain a safe environment for all children.
  • Offer your child opportunities to develop a sense of responsibility, form healthy social relationships and build their self-esteem.
  • Allow children safe and secure use of the Internet through a combination of site filtering, supervision and by fostering a responsible attitude in all pupils, in partnership with parents.
  • Set homework that supports the delivery of the curriculum.
  • Offer opportunities for parents and carers to get involved in school life.
  • Communicate between home and school through text, email, newsletters and the school website.
  • Respond to communications from parents in a timely manner, following school policies.
  • Encourage good attendance and address any concerns with parents or carers where necessary.

Parents/carers

I will do my best to:

  • Make sure my child attends school regularly and on time. I will notify the school if my child will be absent.
  • Make sure my child is dressed in the correct uniform and brings their PE kit to school where necessary.
  • Support the school to make sure my child maintains a consistently high standard of behaviour.
  • To support the school values of friendship, respect, perseverance, honesty, happiness, forgiveness, kindness and responsibility.
  • Encourage my child to try their best so they can reach their full potential.
  • Communicate to the school any concerns that I have about my child that may affect their wellbeing, behaviour in school or their ability to learn.
  • Make sure communication with the school is respectful, and that I make every reasonable effort to address my communications to the appropriate member of staff.
  • Understand that I should communicate with staff during core school hours, and although they may at times respond outside of those hours, I can’t always expect that.
  • Make sure that my child completes their homework on time and raise any issues that my child has with their teachers.
  • Read and follow the school’s policies.
  • Support school in the teaching of safe and secure internet use at home.
  • Treat all members of the school community with care and respect.
  • Engage in parent meetings and work together with the school in order to achieve the best outcomes for my child.
  • Read all communications sent home by the school and respond where necessary.

Pupils

I will do my best to:

  • Follow the school values of friendship, respect, perseverance, honesty, happiness, forgiveness, kindness and responsibility.
  • Arrive at school on time and be ready to learn.
  • Try my best to do my work and ask for help if I need it.
  • Wear the correct school uniform and bring my PE kit to school when I need it.
  • Bring all the equipment I need each day.
  • To talk to a grown-up if I have a problem.
  • Be friendly and caring towards other children and adults.
  • Use the internet safely as I have been taught in class.
  • Listen to instructions from the adults at school and follow the school values.
  • Do my homework and bring it back to school on time.
  • Look after the school equipment and be respectful of the school environment.