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, easily accessible school uniform.
• which promotes a sense of pride community and belonging.

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, times 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 newsletters and Twitter.
• 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

• Have high expectations for work and behaviour, fostering respectful relationships and helping to develop a sense of rights and responsibilities.
• Implement positive behaviour management policy.
• Develop children socially, morally, spiritually and culturally within the school values, British Values and 9 protected characteristics.

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.
• Ensure that no negative, personal or adverse comments about children, parents, staff or the school are posted on any social networks or websites, including Facebook and WhatsApp.  
• Ensure any concerns are shared with the school and not published on social media.
• 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 my child’s education at Swingate Primary School under its values and policies by encouraging high standards, a positive attitude and good behaviour.

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 a bravery, empathy, responsibility and resilience
• I understand that the school will check the websites I visit and how I use the school’s computers and equipment. This is so that they can help keep me safe and make sure I’m following the rules.
• 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 will always be responsible when I use the school’s ICT systems and internet.
• 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

• Be a good ambassador for the school by following the school rules both in school, during extra-curricular activities and while on off-site activities:
  • Be gentle.
  • Be kind and helpful.
  • Work hard.
  • Look after property.
  • Be respectful to all adults and each other.
  • Listen to others.
  • Be honest.
  • Be polite.