HOO ST WERBURGH PRIMARY SCHOOL & MARLBOROUGH CENTRE (Medway Council) SCHOOL PROSPECTUS Headteacher: Jo Trickett BA(Hons) QTS MA (Ed Man) NPQH Deputy Headteacher: Katy Sparkes BA (Hons) QTS Deputy Headteacher: Catherine McKie B Ed (Hons) QTS NPQH Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website/Learning Platform: www.hoo-st-werburgh.medway.sch.uk Hoo St Werburgh Primary School Director of Children’s Services & Marlborough Centre Ms R Collinson Pottery Road, Hoo Medway Council – Children’s Services Rochester, Kent ME3 0BS Gun Wharf, Dock Rd Tel: 01634 338040 Fax: 01634 253893 Chatham, Kent ME4 4TR www.hoo-st-werburgh.medway.sch.uk Telephone No: 01634 306000 CONTENTS Page Welcome to our school 3 Aims 4 Admission Criteria – Main school 5 Admission Criteria – Marlborough Centre 6 Governing Body 7 Staff 8 Schools hours 10 Entrances and car parking 11 Medication policy 12 Absence 13 Lunchtime 14 School rules 15 Children with Special Needs 16 The Curriculum 17 Other useful information 19 Inclement weather & emergencies 21 Parental involvement 22 Results data – KS1 23 Results data – KS2 24 School uniform 25 Data Protection 26 Term dates 28 2 WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL The Headteacher, Staff, Governing Body and children of Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and Marlborough Centre are pleased to welcome you and your son or daughter to our school. We hope that they are happy throughout their learning journey with us. We look forward to working with you. Our motto is courage, confidence, respect and belonging. This applies to adults and children and anyone who enters our site. We do not accept discriminatory behaviour in any form and work hard to ensure that every member of the school’s community has the best possible opportunity to succeed and to feel positive now and in the future. Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and Marlborough Centre is a large community primary school with an attached Centre for children with a recognised diagnosis of Autism. The allocation of a place within the Centre is very different from the allocation of a place in the main school. Please see the separate admissions criteria on the Learning Platform. There are over 470 children on roll, organised into 14 classes, with two classes per year group in the main school and an integrated Marlborough Centre of 6 classes catering for 60 children within the specialist setting. 3 We aim to: Provide a curriculum which supports a structured learning journey from FS to Y6 and beyond. Ensure that the delivery of the curriculum is exciting and relevant and gives a sense ‘what’s out there’. Work in partnership with parents, specialists, other schools and agencies to deliver the very best curriculum that we can. Go on as many visits or welcome visitors into school as often as is appropriate or possible. To use technologies to deliver and explore an inspiring curriculum that reflects key issues in the changing world in which we all live. Ensure that all children master, at the very least, basic skills in English and Maths to enable them to succeed with their hopes and dreams for the future. Ensure that every child is challenged to progress at all times. Ensure that every child is supported through these challenges. Provide a range of sporting activities and events, including competitive elements. To enable children to develop personal relationships of quality. To develop in pupils the ability to appreciate critically human achievements and aspirations. Encourage everyone to have the confidence to celebrate their successes in the past and to have the courage to give things a go. Inspire every child in some way as much as possible. Insist on a moral code based on respect for all, celebrating effort and hard work. Model the values of courage, confidence, respect and a sense of belonging. Show zero tolerance of discriminatory behaviour in any form and promote understanding. Encourage resilience and independence from the start. To feel proud and to make people proud. 4 ADMISSION CRITERIA – MAIN SCHOOL Oversubscription criteria: Places will first be offered to children with a statement of special educational needs, which names the school. If there are more applications for a school than places available, all other applications for community and voluntary controlled schools will be prioritised using the oversubscription criteria below and places will be allocated in the following priority order: 1 Children in public care Sometimes referred to as looked after children, these are children for whom the council provides a home by agreement with their parents or who are subject to a care order under part IV of the Children Act 1989. 2 Current family association/sibling (a brother or sister attending the named school at the time of application) We give priority to children who have a sibling at the named school. Sibling means children who live as brother/sister in the same house and includes natural siblings, adopted siblings, foster siblings and step siblings. Extended family, for example cousins, living in the same house do not qualify as siblings. Please note that if the older sibling is in Year 6 at the time of application, the link cannot be considered, as they will not be in the school when the younger child would start in the following September. 3 Child’s health reasons Medical evidence must be provided to the Student Services Admissions Team. This evidence must demonstrate a specific link between the child’s medical condition and needs and how the named school can meet these needs. 4 Nearness of children’s home and ease of access to the school Distances are measured using the shortest available safe walking route between the home and the school. Full details of how distances are measured can be found in the Medway Admissions booklet. Please note for children of multiple birth – in the event of a school being oversubscribed where the parent/carer for the final qualifying place(s) available is the parent/carer of twins, triplets or other multiple birth, the council would give multiple birth applications a higher priority for places than other applications with the exception of children in public care. This will enable multiple birth children to be offered places at the same school. You must tick the appropriate box on the application form to indicate your children are of multiple birth. Tiebreaker – in the event of a tie within any criterion 1-5, places will be allocated to those living closest to the school measured by the short available walking route. Applications can be made online at www.medway.gov.uk/onlineadmissions 5 ADMISSION CRITERIA – MARLBOROUGH CENTRE The Marlborough Centre is a funded LA provision Referrals to the Marlborough Centre are from the LA, with the agreement of the Governors. Delegation of this decision making is given to the Head of Centre with the agreement of Governors. All pupils will have a Statement of Educational Needs. There must be a clear medical diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Primary need must clearly be ASD. Pupils whose performance is significantly below national expectations and whose learning difficulties cannot be met from resources available to and in a mainstream school. Pupils at pre school age will be likely to have had difficulties in gaining a clear assessment as to their ability range and often may be described as being within the ‘broadly average range’ or as ‘unable to assess’. Pupils may not have developed verbal skills and rely on communication aids such as PECs, Signalong, gesture or just be at the emergent stage of speech. Pupils will have needs that can be met within the existing provision and staffing levels at the Marlborough Centre. REFUSAL OF ADMISSION The agreed number of bought places by the authority is fully subscribed and admitting children over this number would be incompatible with the provision of efficient education or the efficient use of resources. There is insufficient evidence of a clear diagnosis of ASD eg where it is reported ‘there are traits of autism’. There is evidence of pupils working at levels above the cohort within the Marlborough Centre and have well developing verbal skills. The admission of a pupil would compromise the health and Safety of the pupils and/or staff within the Centre or would compromise or disrupt the education of pupils already in attendance. Siblings are not automatically admitted. The needs of the child are such that it would be expected that their local mainstream school should be able to meet need, or to make necessary adaptations eg training staff to enable needs to be met. 6 OUR GOVERNING BODY TEAM Chair of Governors : Mr I Chappell JP Governors : Mrs J Bamber : Miss L Palmer : Mrs N Sammon : Mr R Dowling Headteacher : Miss J Trickett Should you wish to contact any Governors, please do so via the school office. 7 OUR STAFF TEAM Headteacher Miss J Trickett Deputy Headteacher Miss K Sparkes Deputy Headteacher Miss C McKie Assistant Headteacher (KS1) Mr M Currie Assistant Headteacher Mrs J Haywood (Upper KS2) Assistant Headteacher Miss C Beevis (Lower KS2) Inclusion Leader/SENCo Mrs S Ribbon Maths Consultant Mrs D Irwin Main School Teachers Mrs L Currie (RA) Miss J Shaw (RB) Miss A Potts (1D) Miss R Chin (1E) Mrs N Caselton (2H) Mr M Currie (2I) Mr S Meredith (3L) Mrs N Paterson (3M) Miss C Beevis (4P) Miss K Harrison (4Q) Ms C Cassettari (5T) Miss S Hamilton (5U) Mrs J Haywood (6X) Mr M Paterson (6Y) Centre Teachers Mrs K Simmonds (1F) Mrs S Beaumont (2J) Mrs A Davies/Mrs M Thorn (3N) Mr D Newell (4R)