Responsibilities of Swingate Primary School

Attendance and Punctuality

• Provide a safe, nurturing learning environment for your child to attend.
• Care for your child’s safety and happiness.
• Monitor your child’s punctuality and attendance in line with their achievement, behaviour and wellbeing.
• Inform you when there are concerns about your child’s attendance and punctuality.

Uniform

• Offer a cost-effective and readily available school uniform that promotes pride, belonging and a sense of community.

Home / School

• Work together in constructive partnership with parents and carers for the benefit of their child.
• Set your child regular home learning tasks, including reading, tables, and spellings.
• Keep you informed of your child’s progress, learning and well-being, through meetings, parents’ evenings and an annual written report.
• Keep you informed about general school matters through regular communication via our website, newsletters, Arbor and other school communication platforms.
• Contact you as soon as possible if we are concerned about your child’s progress, behaviour, attendance or well-being.
• Respond to you as soon as possible if you contact us.

Effort

• Plan a curriculum that achieves our mission:  we all flourish from a wealth of learning experiences that positively impact on academic, physical and emotional success.
• Encourage and motivate children to always do their best and enable them to achieve their best in all areas of learning by ensuring our 4-character values run through the heart of the experiences we offer:  bravery, resilience, empathy and responsibility. 
• Provide a range of extra-curricular activities designed to enrich your child’s school experience.
• Enable your child to understand that success and achievement will come with effort.

Behaviour

• Maintain high expectations for behaviour, conduct and learning.
• Foster respectful relationships and help pupils understand their rights and responsibilities.
• Implement the school's behaviour policy fairly and consistently.
• Promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development through our values, British Values and our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Responsibilities of Parents and Carers

Attendance and Punctuality

• Make sure my child arrives at school on time between 8:30 – 8:40, correctly dressed in school uniform and ready for the day ahead.
• Fully support the school Attendance Policy. Avoid taking holidays or days out during the school term and recognise holidays will not be authorised.
• Contact the school each day of my child’s absence and provide medical evidence.
• Make arrangements for my child’s safe journey to and from school and ensure that they are collected on time at the end of the day.

Uniform

• Ensure my child attends school in the correct school uniform and shoes.
• Ensure my child’s school uniform and PE kit is smart and clean.
• Ensure my child has the correct PE kit.

Home / School

• Support my child to complete their Home Learning Activities – listening to reading at least 4 times a week, spelling and completing times tables practice using TT Rockstars.
• Ensure that the school is informed immediately of any change to contact details.
• Attend parents’ evening and discussions about my child’s progress, achievement and social development.
• Reply to any school correspondence.
• Raise any concerns directly with the school and use social media responsibly, avoiding comments that could cause offence, harm or damage to the reputation of individuals or the school community.
• Be respectful and considerate towards all members of the school and the local community.

Effort

• Speak to school staff about any concerns or circumstances that might affect my child’s work, attitude or behaviour.
• Help my child to be healthy in mind and body.
• Help my child to understand that success and achievement can come with effort.

Behaviour

• Support the school's values, policies and expectations.
• Encourage positive behaviour, good manners and respect for others.
• Work in partnership with the school to address any concerns regarding behaviour or wellbeing.

Responsibilities of Children

Attendance and Punctuality

• Come to school every day on time.

Uniform

• Wear my school uniform and school shoes.
• Wear the correct school PE kit.

Home / School

• Bring everything I need to school on the day it is required.
• Look after any books or other school property that I borrow.
• Complete my home learning – reading, spelling and times tables.
• Tell an adult if something is making me sad or angry.
• Tell a teacher or someone at home if I find my work difficult.
• Demonstrate bravery, empathy, responsibility and resilience in my learning and relationships with others.
• I will tell a teacher or a member of staff I know immediately if I find anything on a school computer or online that upsets me, or that I know is mean or wrong.
• I understand that the school monitors the use of its ICT systems to help keep pupils safe and ensure equipment is used responsibly.
• I understand that the school can sanction me if I do certain unacceptable things online, even if I’m not in school when I do them.

Effort

• Always try my best and work to my full potential in all aspects of my learning.

Behaviour

• Follow our school values at all times.
• Treat everyone with kindness, respect and consideration.
• Take responsibility for my actions and learn from mistakes.
• Be a positive ambassador for Swingate both in school and when representing the school in the wider community.