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Home School Agreement

The School Promises

To provide suitable, well-taught lessons

• Discussing work and setting targets for improvement
• Promoting equal opportunities for differing needs and abilities
• Setting and marking homework regularly
• Rewarding hard work, achievement, good attendance and punctuality
• Providing opportunities for a wide variety of extra-curricular activities.

To provide an environment of care, order, purposefulness and pleasure in learning:

• Giving advice, guidance and counselling
• Requiring a high standard of behaviour from each member of our community
• Requiring everyone to help identify and prevent bullying
• Provide, within our means, a pleasant and comfortable physical environment in which to work.

To run effectively and smoothly:

• Providing information when needs arise
• Offering prompt appointments and regular parents' evenings to discuss progress
• Encouraging a high stand of dress with a strong uniform policy
• Informing parents regularly of our activities.

 

The Parent Promises:

To expect and encourage good work:

• Taking an active interest in the work done in school and at home
• Rewarding and praising achievement and effort
• Reading and signing the planner regularly
• Encouraging involvement in school teams, clubs and other extra-curricular activities
• Attending parents' evenings whenever possible, to discuss progress with teachers and tutor.

To support the school's requirements for a high standard of behaviour:

• Supporting the school's behaviour policies
• Promoting the school's efforts to prevent bullying
• Encouraging a sense of pride in the school's environment and appearance
• Providing a suitable, quiet place for homework to be done.

To help the school run efficiently and smoothly:

• Ensuring regular, punctual attendance, except in cases of illness, when a telephone call will be made to the school or a note will be provided on the first day of an absence
• Ensuring full uniform is worn each day
• Contacting the school when help is needed
• Supporting school activities whenever possible.

 

The Student Promises

To work to the best of his/her ability:

• Concentrating on the task in hand
• Discussing work with teachers, parents and tutor, and considering their advice carefully
• Setting targets for improvement
• Recording homework in the planner, then completing it promptly and as well as possible
• Becoming involved, where possible, in teams, clubs and other extra-curricular activities.

To behave sensibly and sensitively to others:

• Treating then with consideration, courtesy and respect
• Refusing to take part in any bullying, physically or verbally, or any other aggressive behaviour
• Looking after personal property and respecting the property of others,
• Doing whatever possible to help the school look neat and attractive, never causing any litter
• Recognising that the need to behave responsibly includes the journey to and from school
• Actively promoting the image of the school by good behaviour in the community.

To help the school run efficiently and smoothly:

• Attending school punctually every day except when ill, then bringing a note to the tutor
• Wearing school uniform each day
• Having all necessary equipment for each lesson
• Ensuring parents are informed of school activities.