Policies

Information Pages Relating to the Operation of the School and its Curriculum.

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

School policies cover every aspect of school life. Below are some of our most important policies for your reference. If you want to know our policy on something that is not listed, or paper copies of any documents please ask the school office. For details of our use of the Pupil Premium Grant and Sports Premium Funding, please click on the Information tab.

Policies address the practical implications of how to achieve the school’s vision and are a key means of ensuring that agreed values underpin day-to-day decisions and actions in our school. They are concerned with key processes within school and are about interactions between school, pupils, parents and community. They are about ensuring highly effective teaching and learning, about safety and about basic human rights. All policies at William Barnes Primary School are intended to guide the work of the Headteacher and the staff to provide a framework for the smooth functioning of our school based in a shared understanding of the school’s strategic plan and vision.

We have three categories of Policy:

· Statutory – covering major strategic areas required by law, as stated by the Maintained Schools’ Governance Guide

· Discretionary – additional policies covering additional areas, not required by law but regarded as important by the staff and governors

· Curriculum- policies on specific subject areas of the curriculum. These are all discretionary

Our policies are reviewed annually or bi-annually in accordance to our Policy Review Cycle document. Each Curriculum policy is ‘owned’ jointly by a member of staff and the Headteacher. Our Statutory and Discretionary policies are regularly reviewed by the Governors’ Finance, Personnel and Premises Committee before final approval by the Full Governing Body.

Our Statutory policies can be seen below and some of our most important Discretionary policies are also shared on this page.