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:

•  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