Our Home/ School Agreement reflects our ambition for effective partnership to support your child’s wellbeing, safety and holistic growth in a supportive and caring environment. We intend that this triangulated partnership will help and encourage your child to reach their full potential as we strive to support and develop independence and collaboration.
Strong and positive home / school links are important to us. To establish this, we offer the following:
Offer
Purpose
Formal Reports and Meetings
Parents’ Evenings
An opportunity to meet with teachers to review learning at specific points of the year.
3x Open Mornings
To enable parents and guardians to visit school to meet teachers and enable children to share work they are proud of.
3x Reports Home
To advise parents of the effort children are placing in their work.
To share learning attitudes and to identify academic abilities with parents.
SENDCO Meetings
The SENDCO schedules regular meetings with all parents and guardians who have a child on the SEND register. Please also feel welcome to arrange an appointment to meet either through contacting via ClassDojo or the school office.
Senior Leader Meetings
To enable parents and guardians to speak with a senior colleague.
Light Touch
HSLW and SLT available at the start of day
As you drop your child off in the morning, come and speak to our Home-School Link Worker (HSLW) or a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). We are always happy to help or to book an appointment to discuss something in further detail.
Teachers available at the end of the day
As your child’s class teacher waves goodbye to the children, feel welcome to share key information.
Coffee Mornings
Meet with other parents and teachers to discuss school life.
ClassDojo
To communicate regular updates with key staff members, such as your child’s class teacher or the SENDCO, when required.
For parents and guardians to receive regular announcements from the school.
Home / School Link Worker
A dedicated key member for staff for parents and guardians to contact via ClassDojo or through the office when required. Please scroll to the bottom of the page for more details.
Mapping out your child’s curriculum
Curriculum Long Term Maps for each subject
To illustrate how we are implementing the National Curriculum throughout Ranvilles Junior School. Please see the ‘Our Curriculum’ pages for more detail.
Half-Termly Year Group Overviews
For each of our 6 half-terms, to share with parents what children are specifically learning and how learning links.
Weekly Class Learning Reflections
For each individual class, to share what has been focused on each week and who the learning STARS are. These are shared via the class page on ClassDojo.
Ranvilles Junior School STARS Home / School Agreement
We have high aspirations for all our pupils and are dedicated to developing emotionally intelligent, academic learners in partnership with you. The agreement highlights the school values and we very much encourage parents to read and endorse this agreement and expectations when choosing Ranvilles Junior School. We look forward to working in partnership with you.
Please click to the right for a downloadable Home / School Agreement.
The school will:
- Create a happy and positive learning environment to thrive educationally.
- Teach and encourage children to be safe physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and socially.
- Educate internet safety and wellbeing.
- Foster confidence to enable children to report any concerns.
Children are encouraged to:
- Use learning to feel confident to make positive choices and wise decisions.
- Learn to be themselves, to question, grow and learn with consideration.
- Communicate any feelings of concern with adults who they trust and can help.
Parents are asked to:
- Ensure their child attends school regularly.
- Make sure their child is dressed in the correct uniform.
- Work in partnership with the school to develop wellbeing and support practice outlined in the Health & Safety, Child Protection, Safeguarding, Physical, Social & Health/ Sex Education and Behaviour for Learning policies.
- Ensure children access age appropriate ICT apps, games and resources, adhering to guidelines.
- Monitor and ensure safe and appropriate use of the internet and social media at home.
The school will:
- Support the children in developing their learning and skills in areas of talent and interest.
- Support parents when their child represents themselves, county or country in external activities.
- Provide opportunities to share talents and interests and celebrate effort and success.
- Promote curiosity, creative thinking and the desire to learn new skills.
Children are encouraged to:
- Enjoy exploring and just being themselves!
- Recognise their raw talents and practise new skills.
- Learn from and with others to develop new skills.
- Have a go!
Parents are asked to:
- Support the school by allowing their children to engage in a variety of enrichment, curriculum opportunities.
- Share their talents and interests with the children in school to enhance provision.
- Attend school events, when possible, to support and celebrate achievements.
The school will:
- Provide the very best education to enable children to achieve their personal best.
- Communicate what children will learn in the curriculum and provide regular updates.
- Ensure learning is focused through a broad and balanced curriculum.
- Develop skills in a wide range of subjects and prepare learners for the next stage in their lives.
- Report to parents regularly to share learning outcomes.
Children are encouraged to:
- Have ambitions and big dreams and believe they can achieve them.
- Work hard in all areas of the curriculum to achieve to their personal best.
- Take responsibility for achieving their targets.
Parents are asked to:
- Encourage their child to try their best so they can reach their full potential.
- Ensure their children read at least 5 times per week, learn their timetables and support homework that allows them to practise core skills taught in the classroom.
- Discuss and share classroom learning to enhance it further at home.
- Celebrate academic success and engage with parent evenings.
- Communicate to the school any concerns that may affect their child’s ability to learn.
- Read and follow the school’s policies.
The school will:
- Educate the children about their rights and responsibilities in school and in the wider world.
- Teach children about diversity and its impact on society.
- Teach children how to be respectful of others and to challenge injustice in society.
Children are encouraged to:
- Value their Rights.
- Respect others including differences in lifestyle, views and opinions.
- Know their responsibilities and ensure they carry them out.
- Be open-minded and learn about other peoples’ cultures, beliefs and lifestyles.
- Take responsibility and accountability for their words and actions.
Parents are asked to:
- Talk to their children about current issues in our society.
- Encourage children to be open-minded and respectful of others.
- Discuss what they have learnt at school and explore the thoughts and opinions.
- Support the school in ensuring the children carry out their responsibilities both at home, in school and in the wider community
- Treat all members of the school community with care and respect.
The school will:
- Foster positive behaviours for learning, developing the children’s skills of independence, collaboration, perseverance, reflection, challenge and creative thinking.
- Develop the skills and personal qualities necessary for living, contributing to and functioning effectively in a multi-racial, multicultural and multi- faith society.
- Consistently apply our Behaviour for Learning policy.
- Provide opportunities for children to develop effective interpersonal and social skills.
Children are encouraged to:
- Develop their interpersonal skills socially and academically.
- Demonstrate positive attitudes towards their learning and relationships in school.
- Respectfully question and challenge to establish a personal viewpoint.
- Follow the school’s Behaviour for Learning showing respect for the environment and the people in it.
Parents are asked to:
- Model and support exemplar interpersonal skills to promote positivity.
- Make sure communication with the school is respectful, and that every reasonable effort to address communications is made to the appropriate member of staff appreciating school opening hours.
- Support the school to make sure their child maintains a consistently high standard of behaviour.
- Communicate circumstances at home that may inhibit their child’s ability to ‘get along’ socially, emotionally and academically.
- Support the school in implementing our Behaviour for Learning policy in order to develop positive role models and citizens of our society.
- Read all communications sent home by school and respond where necessary.
Simone Turner (Miss T)
Simone Turner (Miss T), our Home/School Link Worker, helps us to weave fantastic links with school and home. Please feel very welcome to contact her should you wish to share any information which will support your child in school. Miss T is very happy to meet with you in person or connect with you on the phone – we are genuinely interested in all aspects of a child’s life and will work in close partnership with you to help and support your child to shine.