Prospectus

School Aims

The Governing Body

Aims of the School

School Hours

Collection of Children

Visitors

Admissions

School Meals

Medical Arrangements/Health Education

Pastoral Care

School Aims

At Pleasant Street School our aim is to:

- Provide a secure, happy and stimulating environment in which children can develop into well rounded human being.

- Provide a rich and challenging curriculum, enabling all
- children to develop their individual talents and abilities.

- Promote moral values, good manners and genuine respect for all others.

- Ensure equal opportunities for all, whilst recognising and celebrating individual differences.

- Embrace our multi-cultural society.

- Enable pupils to value and appreciate human achievement in all areas of life.

- Develop a sense of awe and spiritual awareness.

- Promote good role models.

- Enable all our children to communicate with confidence.

- Offer a broad range of curricular and extra - curricular experiences. Back to top

The Governing Body

Each school governor is a representative of one of the following categories:

- Local Education Authority
- Member of Staff
- Parents
- The Local Community

The Governing Body works with the head teacher in making decisions on how the school is run. They meet together once or twice a term.

Governors are appointed to:
- Interview and select staff
- Make decisions on how the school budget is spent; regarding the maintenance of the building; on the delivery of the curriculum; regarding behaviour and discipline. School Governors have legal duties, powers and responsibilities.

They act together but cannot act individually. Back to top

Aims of the School

The history of our School is part of our heritage.
The children we teach are our future.

Permeating the Curriculum is our commitment to equal opportunities. It is our aim to offer a broad range of experiences, in a caring and fair environment, which will give every child an equal opportunity to understand and develop good manners, social and moral values, and genuine respect for others. We have a strong commitment to
providing an inclusive education for all our pupils. By providing a balanced sphere of knowledge we aim to encourage the development of respect and tolerance in all areas of race, gender and disability. We aim to provide a secure, happy and stimulating learning environment in which the children may develop all the basic skills of oracy, literacy and numeracy.

The planning of the children?s work is carefully organised and structured by the staff, to ensure that a balanced and broadly based National Curriculum is successfully implemented and that work is matched to varying levels of ability. The staff continually strive to raise standards and levels of achievement for all children.

The Code of Behaviour is learned and fostered through the telling of stories (often in assembly), through a discipline based on sound reasoning, through positive re-enforcement and through encouragement and good example.

Our curriculum aims to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school, to help them to prepare for the opportunities, responsibility and experiences of adult life.

We can achieve the best results by close co-operation between home and school. All aspects of your child?s development are our concern and we look forward to sharing the privilege of making your child?s time at our school a happy and rewarding experience. If you have any concerns about your child please do not hesitate to contact us. Your confidence will always be respected and a solution will usually be found. Back to top

School Hours

School begins at 8.55am and ends at 3.15pm. Parents are asked to ensure that the children are punctual in the mornings i.e. in the yard for 8.50am.
Hours spent on teaching during a normal week are:
- Infants: 21 hours
- Juniors: 23.5 hours Back to top

Collection of Children

It is not always possible for a member of staff to stay with children who, for one reason or another, have not been collected. Parents and carers must ensure that arrangements are made for children to be collected at the appropriate time. Back to top

Visitors

For security reasons all parents and visitors must first call at Reception and speak to Mrs Pauline Price or Mrs Jean Hart-Davies who will either make an appointment or direct you to the member of staff you wish to see. Please click on the Location page from the main menu on the left hand side of the page, for details of how to get to our school. Back to top

Admissions

The academic year is from 1st September to 31st August. Children are admitted to the Reception class in the September following their fourth birthday. Parents wishing to apply for a reception place should complete an application form in the autumn term of the year prior to their child joining the reception class and send it to the LEA in the envelope provided. If the school is oversubscribed, priority is given on the following criteria:-
- Children with siblings currently attending the school.
- Children living nearest to the school.
If a child fails to gain a place, parents may appeal to the L.E.A.

Children may be admitted to the Nursery after their third birthday. Parents should register their interest in a place when the child reaches the age of two. The school follows the LEA?s admission criteria. Full time places may be awarded at the discretion of the LEA.

NB A place in the Nursery is not a guarantee of a place in the school. Parents of Nursery children will need to make an application to the school at the appropriate time. Back to top

School Meals

It is expected that all children will have a school meal (especially if you are entitled to free school meals).

Parents who receive Income Support are entitled to claim free school meals for their children. Forms are available from various One Stop Shops around the city.

Please remember to renew your application at the end of each school year. You will be expected to pay for meals if you do not have an authorisation number.

Meals are cooked on the premises and at present cost £1.50 per day (£7.50 per week).

The money for meals should be paid in advance on Monday morning. Please put the money in an envelope and label it with your child?s name, class and the amount of money.

All money is banked on a daily basis. No money is ever left on the school premises.

If you prefer to make your child a packed lunch, we hope that you would not try to change arrangements during a half term. This request is made to help our administration and the ordering of ingredients.

Whether your child has a school meal or a packed lunch, all children are supplied with a drink at lunchtime. There is no necessity for you to send drinks into school. In this way we can avoid accidents.

Children should not bring sweets into school. All children are provided with a piece of fruit at break time. Key Stage 1 pupils are also provided with milk. Back to top

Medical Arrangements/Health Education

Although children who are taking some medicines may not be well enough to attend school, we wish to enable all pupils to attend school regularly and therefore certain exceptions may be made to this rule e.g. long-term medication and inhalers.
Permission must always be sought from the head teacher. If permission is granted the school will require a signed authority from the parent/guardian with written instructions on dosage and storage conditions.

Two emergency contact numbers are required for each child. In the event of a
problem occurring in school every effort will be made to make contact with the
Emergency numbers.

Parents should notify the school immediately if there is a change of
address or a new telephone number.

Within the school we aim to support and promote attitudes, practices and
understanding conducive to good health. We aim to promote self-esteem in our pupils. The children are encouraged to develop a sense of responsibility for their own well being, to learn how to keep themselves healthy and to have regard for the health of the community.

We aim to help the children to make informed choices by teaching them about road safety, choice of diet, the dangers of smoking and other factors which may affect their health. Back to top

Pastoral Care

Each teacher takes a pastoral interest in his/her class in conjunction with the
Parents and head teacher.

The school has a responsibility to ensure the welfare of all children, and parents should recognise that this may occasionally require cases to referred to agencies (e.g. the school nurse, doctor, Integrated Children?s Services) as a constructive and helpful measure. For example, if it appears to a member of staff that there is suspicion of child abuse, the school is required as part of the Child Protection Act, to report their concern to the Integrated Children?s Services. Only in the most extreme of cases would this procedure be followed. However it is the law and all schools must comply.

The head teacher is the designated staff member for child protection at Pleasant Street. The school nurse, Mrs Lisa Caesar visits the school regularly and checks eyesight, teeth, hearing, height and weight at selected ages. She also holds regular drop in sessions at the school to help answer any queries, parents may have on child health. There are no longer hair inspections. This area is now seen to be a parental responsibility. Back to top