The following statutory and Trust-wide policies and documents can be found (or are referenced) by clicking here.

• Accessibility Plan
• Anti Bullying & Cyber Bullying
• Bring Your Own Device
• Business Continuity Plan
• Careers Guidance
• CCTV
• Charging and Remissions
• Children educated outside of Chronological Year group
• Child Protection and Safeguarding
• Children Looked After (CLA)
• Collective Worship
• Complaints Policy
• Data Breach
• Data Protection
• Early Career Teacher (ECT) Policy
• Early Years Foundation Stage – Overall Statement
• Equality
• Home School Agreement
• Health and Safety (Including First Aid)
• ICT Acceptable Use
• Information Security
• Model Publication Scheme (Freedom of Information)
• Online Safety and Remote Learning
• Parent Privacy Notice
• Philosophy, Religion and Ethics (PRE) Curriculum
• Physical Intervention and Reasonable Force
• Pupil Privacy Notice
• Records Management
• Relationships and Sex Education
• Risk Management
• School Behaviour (Behaviour Framework)
• School Exclusions
• SEND
• Subject Access Request
• Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions
• Uniform
• Vaccination Statement
• Visitors to School Behaviour
• Whistleblowing
• Whistleblowing – Examinations

Further Policies

ACPS – Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy 2023-2024

ACPS Feedback 2023-2024

ACPS – Relationships and Sex Education Policy (RSE)

ACPS – Supporting Pupils With Medical Conditions Policy

ACPS – Mobile Phone Policy 2022- 2023

ACPS – First Aid Policy  2022-2023

ACPS – Emotional Well-being and Mental Health Policy March 2021-March 2022

ACPS – Online Safety Policy September 2021- September 2022

Accessibility Action Plan      ACPS – Accessibility Plan 2023-2024

We will administer medication that has been prescribed by a doctor to avoid children missing too much time from school. Our procedure must be followed:

1. Complete a Medicine at School form (obtainable at the school office)
2. Long term complaints (asthma/diabetes) will require meeting with the school nurse and risk assessment agreed.
3. Medicine should be brought to the school by the parent (Not the child) and handed to the office staff.
4. Medicines must be clearly labelled with your doctor’s label, contents, child’s name, and dosage. Medicines should be locked in the office.
5. Children will go to the office where their medicine will be administered by one of the first aid trained office staff. Teachers and/or office staff cannot accept responsibility for timing of the administration of the medicine. Parents are able to come to school to administer the medicine themselves should they be concerned about this.
6. Under no circumstances should medicines be kept in cloakrooms or classrooms. This will eliminate the risk of the wrong child taking the medicine.
7. The school can only administer medication, which has been prescribed by a doctor (including Calpol and Piriton).

If your child is sick at school, a trained first aider will attend and in consultation with the Welfare Office and a member of SLT will decide how to proceed and may decide to send your child home.

We need written permission from parents/carers for a number of reasons – namely local trips, use of photos. Before children start school, parents are requested to sign a form giving permission for their child to go on local trips less than 1 mile in distance and on foot. A separate permission letter is sent for all other trips. Permission must be given before the day of the trip.

Children without written permission will not be able to go on the trip, but will still be expected in school.

Parents are also asked to sign giving permission for the school to take photos for displays, for use in children’s books and classrooms, the school website, school promotion; this is common practice in UK primary schools. Names are never associated with individuals. Without this permission children are restricted from taking full part in the life of the school. We follow our safeguarding principles at all times.

Our behaviour policy ACPS Behaviour Policy 2023-2024 intends to instil and develop positive behaviour related to our values driven curriculum with humble, respectful, grateful members of our school community (pupils, staff, parents) who have courage to take risks, with well developed self-discipline and who act with integrity and empathy. We aim for everyone to be included so that everyone sees themselves as part of a happy learning community.

We have very high expectations of our school community’s behaviour and hope to develop children’s understanding of the impact of choices they make, whether positive or negative.

Good behaviour and achievement is not automatically learned. Instead, positive behaviour must be modelled, explained, taught, supported and recognised.

ClassDojos

Background
At Avanti Court Primary School we aim to provide a positive learning environment for all children, where effective teaching and learning can take place. We believe that effective communication between home and school is essential to supporting children in their learning. Underpinning all of our core beliefs are our Core Principles of the Avanti Way: Avanti exists to help each person become a well-rounded human being through intellectual, moral and spiritual growth, and so make the world a better place. These form the foundations for everything we do and are embedded across the school ethos.

Aims
• To establish more effective communication links with parents/Carers.
• To enhance the current effective behaviour policy.
• To streamline the home learning procedures to be more accessible and
impactful.

Select the link to find out more about our expectations for ClassDojos and how we use it to support our new behaviour approach: ACPS Dojo Guidance and Expectations

How do we manage allegations of bullying? Parent Information-Bullying

We enhance our curriculum by organizing educational visits in the locality and further afield, especially making use of our incredible city. To help fund these visits, which we believe are essential to provide diverse and memorable learning experience we ask for a voluntary contributions from parents. There is no obligation to contribute and no pupil will be restricted from going on a trip. However, in increasingly challenging financial circumstance, if there are insufficient contributions we may have to cancel visits. The school cannot supplement educational visits.

Children are encouraged to pursue their learning out of school; we have a number of expectations:

1. Children should be read to every day (by parents, grandparents, cousins, siblings, friends). This could be a favourite story repeated, or a new story. Research shows that telling the same story to children helps builds their literacy.
2. Children should read a book every day (EYFS: 10 minutes; Year 1-3 15 minutes). By the age of 10 children are expected to read at least 8 books each month.
3. Children should learn Maths facts (timestable off by heart; Number bonds (e.g. 1+9=10, 2+8=10 etc; and number bonds to 20, 50, 100)
4. Children should learn sight words.
5. Children will be assigned weekly home learning maths tasks aligned to their learning in the classroom. They will also be expected to complete a project each half term – linking their writing and PRE curriculum. See your child’s google classroom ‘classwork’ for more information.
6. Home learning sheets are NOT given each week. There is no empirical evidence to suggest that homework or home learning sheets impact on children’s understanding.