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Welcome to the Information Page!
This area contains links to all
sorts of useful information about Warter School, available for
everyone and anyone to read online at their leisure.
If there's anything at all you want
to know which you can't find on this website, or just want to ask
about, please feel free to contact the school office using any of
the following...
E-MAIL -
office@warterschool.eril.net
TELEPHONE
- 01759 302061
FAX -
01759 302274
MAIL -
Main Office, Warter C.E. Primary School, Warter, York, YO42 1XR
Freedom of Information
Policy
This is Warter CE Primary School Publication Scheme
on
information available under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
The governing
body is responsible for maintenance of this scheme.
1. Introduction:
what a publication scheme is and why it has been developed
One of the
aims of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (which is referred to as
FOIA in the rest of this document) is that public authorities,
including all maintained schools, should be clear and proactive
about the information they will make public.
To do this
we must produce a publication scheme, setting out:
·
The classes
of information which we publish or intend to publish;
·
The manner in
which the information will be published; and
·
Whether the
information is available free of charge or on payment.
The scheme
covers information already published and information which is to be
published in the future. All information in our publication scheme
is [either available for you on our website to download and print
off or] available in paper form.
Some information which we hold
may not be made public, for example personal information.
This publication scheme conforms
to the model scheme for schools approved by the Information
Commissioner.
2. Aims and Objectives [A school may insert their
own aims and objectives]
The school aims to:
-
enable every child to fulfil
their learning potential, with education that meets the needs of
each child,
·
help every child
develop the skills, knowledge and personal qualities needed for life
and work,
and this publication
scheme is a means of showing how we are pursuing these aims.
3. Categories of information published
The
publication scheme guides you to information which we currently
publish (or have recently published) or which we will publish in the
future. This is split into categories of information known as
‘classes’. These are contained in section 6 of this scheme.
The classes
of information that we undertake to make available are organised
into four broad topic areas:
School Prospectus – information published in the school prospectus.
Governors’ Documents – information published in the Governors Annual
Report and in other governing body documents.
Pupils & Curriculum – information about policies that relate to pupils
and the school curriculum.
School Policies and other information related to the school - information about policies that relate to the school in
general.
4. How to request information
If you require a paper version of any of
the documents within the scheme, please contact the school by
telephone, email, fax or letter. Contact details are set out below.
[or you can visit our website at
www.warterschool.eril.net ]
Email: office@warterschool.eril.net
Tel: 01759 302061
Fax: 01759 302274
Contact Address: Warter CE Primary
School, Warter, York. YO42 1XR
To help us process your request quickly,
please clearly mark any correspondence “PUBLICATION SCHEME
REQUEST” (in CAPITALS please)
If the information you’re looking for
isn’t available via the scheme [and isn’t on our website],
you can still contact the school to ask if we have it.
5. Paying for information
Information published on our website is
free, although you may incur costs from your Internet service
provider. If you don’t have Internet access, you can access our
website using a local library or an Internet café.
Single copies of information covered by
this publication are provided free unless stated otherwise in
section 6. If your request means that we have to do a lot of
photocopying or printing, or pay a large postage charge, or is for a
priced item such as some printed publications or videos we will let
you know the cost before fulfilling your request. Where there is a
charge this will be indicated by a £ sign in the description box.
6.
Classes of Information Currently Published
School Prospectus –
this section
sets out information published in the school prospectus.
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Class |
Description |
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School Prospectus |
The
statutory contents of the school prospectus are as follows,
(other items may be included in the prospectus at the
school’s discretion):
·
the
name, address and telephone number of the school, and the
type of school
·
the
names of the head teacher and chair of governors
·
information on the school policy on admissions
·
a
statement of the school's ethos and values
·
details of any affiliations with a particular religion or
religious denomination, the religious education provided,
parents' right to withdraw their child from religious
education and collective worship and the alternative
provision for those pupils
·
information about the school's policy on providing for
pupils with special educational needs
·
number of pupils on roll and rates of pupils’ authorised and
unauthorised absences
·
National Curriculum assessment results for appropriate Key
Stages, with national summary figures
·
the
arrangements for visits to the school by prospective parents |
Governors’ Annual Report
and other information relating to the governing body–
this section
sets out information published in the Governors’ Annual Report and
in other governing body documents.
|
Class |
Description |
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Governors’ Annual Report |
The
statutory contents of the governors’ annual report to
parents are as follows, (other items may be included in the
annual report at the school’s discretion):
·
details of the governing body membership, including name and
address of chair and clerk
·
a
statement on progress in implementing the action plan drawn
up following an inspection
·
a
financial statement, including gifts made to the school and
amounts paid to governors for expenses
·
a
description of the school’s arrangements for security of
pupils staff and the premises
·
information about the implementation of the governing body’s
policy on pupils with special educational needs (SEN) and
any changes to the policy during the last year
·
a
description of the arrangements for the admission of pupils
with disabilities; details of steps to prevent disabled
pupils being treated less favourably than other pupils;
details of existing facilities to assist access to the
school by pupils with disabilities; the accessibility plan
covering future policies for increasing access by those with
disabilities to the school
·
a
statement of policy on whole staff development identifying
how teachers’ professional development impacts on teaching
and learning
·
number of pupils on roll and rates of pupils’ authorised and
unauthorised absence
·
National Curriculum assessment results for appropriate Key
Stages, with national summary figures
·
a
statement of the extent to which proposals in the post-
inspection action plan have been carried into effect |
|
Instrument of Government |
·
The name of
the school
·
The
category of the school
·
The name of
the governing body
·
The manner
in which the governing body is constituted
·
The term of
office of each category of governor if less than 4 years
·
The name of
any body entitled to appoint any category of governor
·
Details of
any trust
·
If the
school has a religious character, a description of the ethos
·
The date
the instrument takes effect |
|
Minutes
of meeting
of the governing body and its committees |
Agreed minutes of meetings of the governing body and its
committees [current and last full academic school year] |
Pupils & Curriculum
Policies -
This section gives access to information about policies that relate to
pupils and the school curriculum.
|
Class |
Description |
|
Home
– school agreement |
Statement of the school’s aims and values, the school’s
responsibilities, the parental responsibilities and the
school’s expectations of its pupils for example homework
arrangements |
|
Curriculum Policy |
Statement on following the policy for the secular curriculum
subjects and religious education and schemes of work and
syllabuses currently used by the school |
|
Sex
Education Policy |
Statement of policy with regard to sex and relationship
education |
|
Special Education Needs Policy |
Information about the school's policy on providing for
pupils with special educational needs
|
|
Accessibility Plans |
Plan
for increasing participation of disabled pupils in the
school’s curriculum, improving the accessibility of the
physical environment and improving delivery of information
to disabled pupils. |
|
Race
Equality Policy |
Statement of policy for promoting race equality |
|
Collective Worship |
Statement of arrangements for the required daily act of
collective worship |
|
Child Protection Policy |
Statement of policy for safeguarding and promoting welfare
of pupils at the school. (from March 2004) |
|
Pupil Discipline |
Statement of general principles on behaviour and discipline
and of measures taken by the head teacher to prevent
bullying. |
School Policies and
other information related to the school -
This section gives access to information about policies that
relate to the school in general.
|
Class |
Description |
|
Published reports of Ofsted referring expressly to the
school |
Published report of the last inspection of the school and
the summary of the report and where appropriate inspection
reports of religious education in those schools designated
as having a religious character |
|
Post-Ofsted inspection action plan |
A
plan setting out the actions required following the last
Ofsted inspection and where appropriate an action plan
following inspection of religious education where the school
is designated as having a religious character |
|
Charging and Remissions Policies |
A
statement of the school’s policy with respect to charges and
remissions for any optional extra or board and lodging for
which charges are permitted, for example school
publications, music tuition, trips |
|
School session times and term dates |
Details of school session and dates of school terms and
holidays |
|
Health and Safety Policy and risk assessment |
Statement of general policy with respect to health and
safety at work of employees (and others) and the
organisation and arrangements for carrying out the policy |
|
Complaints procedure |
Statement of procedures for dealing with complaints |
|
Performance Management of Staff |
Statement of procedures adopted by the governing body
relating to the performance management of staff and the
annual report of the head teacher on the effectiveness of
appraisal procedures |
|
Staff Conduct, Discipline and Grievance |
Statement of procedure for regulating conduct and discipline
of school staff and procedures by which staff may seek
redress for grievance |
|
Curriculum circulars and statutory instruments |
Any
statutory instruments, departmental circulars and
administrative memoranda sent by the Department of Education
and Skills to the head teacher or governing body relating to
the curriculum |
|
Annex A - Other documents |
Annex A provides a list of other documents that are held by
the school and are available on request |
[** Information
available on our website]
[Our website is at (www.warterschool.eril.net
)]
7. Feedback and
Complaints
We welcome any comments or
suggestions you may have about the scheme. If you want to make any
comments about this publication scheme or if you require further
assistance or wish to make a complaint then initially this should be
addressed to the Head teacher or Chair of Governors.
If you are
not satisfied with the assistance that you get or if we have not
been able to resolve your complaint and you feel that a formal
complaint needs to be made then this should be addressed to the
Information Commissioner’s Office. This is the organisation that
ensures compliance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and that
deals with formal complaints. They can be contacted at:
Information Commissioner, Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
or
Enquiry/Information
Line: 01625 545 700
E Mail:
publications@ic-foi.demon.co.uk.Website :
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Warter
CE Primary School
Freedom of Information
Publication Scheme
Annex A – Further documents
held by the school
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