Home School Agreement
Our Aims
At Frogmore Junior School, staff, parents/carers and School Standards Board members work together, striving for excellence in all we do. We are proud of our school and our pupils.
We aim for everyone to:
- Try their best
- Make the right choices
- Help each other
We are a rights respecting school and we put the UN Convention on the Right of the Child (UNCRC) at the heart of our school’s practice to improve well-being and help all children realise their potential. Our ethos is based on principles of equality, dignity, respect, non-discrimination and participation.
We strongly believe that education is a shared partnership between the home and the school. Our Home School Agreement is the first step towards this. In support of these aims:
The school will endeavour to:
- Provide a happy, safe environment for your child
- Deliver a broad and balanced curriculum
- Ensure that there is a planned programme of work suitable to the needs of your child
- Create an atmosphere where the highest standards of work are achieved
- Encourage all pupils to take responsibility for their own actions and feel proud of their achievements
- Monitor your child and keep you regularly informed of their progress
- Be open and welcoming, offering opportunities for parents to become involved in the daily life of the school
- Offer parents/carers the opportunity to understand the teaching approaches used in school and the aims for the year
- Respond promptly and sensitively to your concerns through our complaint’s procedure.
Parents/carers understand the importance of:
- Treating all members of the school community with respect and therefore set a good example in their own speech and behaviour
- Their child attending school regularly, on time (no later than 8.45am) and suitably equipped, e.g. wearing the full school uniform or school PE kit on allocated PE days and bringing a drink of water
- Informing the school of any concerns or problems that might affect their child’s learning
- Encouraging their child to read regularly (at least three times a week) to supplement the reading at school and signing their reading record book
- Supporting their child with any homework task
- Attending meetings wherever possible
- Encouraging their child to show kindness and respect towards others in line with the school’s Behaviour Policy and our Rights Respecting ethos
- Supporting school events throughout the year
- Being an audience of your child’s work and learning, talking to them and praising all their efforts
- Ensuring high attendance for your child (above 96%). Request for absence will only be authorised where there are exceptional circumstances
- Being respectful in their use of social media. Under no circumstances should negative comments be made about the school, pupils, staff or other parents
- Not posting photographs taken of or at school events on social media sites
Pupils understand the importance of:
- Arriving at school on time and being ready to learn
- Trying my best to do my work and meet the targets my teachers set me
- Asking for help if I need it
- Celebrating the achievements of others as well as myself
- Wearing the correct school uniform and wearing my PE kit to school when I have PE
- Being friendly, caring, and respectful towards other children and adults
- Being an upstander, and speaking to a trusted adult if something is wrong
- Listening to instructions from the adults at school and following the school rules
- Speaking to a trusted adult about any issues that may affect my behaviour or ability to learn
- Doing my homework and bringing it back to school on time
- Looking after the school equipment and being respectful of the school environment
