Trustee and Governor’s information and duties

In the interests of transparency, an academy trust should publish on its website up-to-date details of its governance arrangements in a readily accessible form. Readily accessible means that the information should be on a webpage without the need to download or open a separate document.

This should include:

þ  the structure and remit of the members, board of trustees, its committees and local governing bodies (the trust’s scheme of delegation for governance functions), and the full names of the chair of each (where applicable)

for each member who has served at any point over the past 12 months,

☐  their full names, date of appointment, date they stepped down (where applicable),

☐  relevant business and pecuniary interests including governance roles in other educational institutions.

for each trustee who has served at any point over the past 12 months

☐  their full names, date of appointment, term of office, date they stepped down (where applicable),

☐  who appointed them (in accordance with the trust’s articles), and

☐  relevant business and pecuniary interests including governance roles in other educational institutions.

☐  If the trust’s accounting officer is not a trustee their relevant business and pecuniary interests must still be published.

☐  for each trustee their attendance records at board and committee meetings over the last academic year

for each local governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months

Attendance

Daily attendance is essential if children are to reach their full potential. Our target as a school is that each child will have an attendance of 96% or more. We aim to decrease our unauthorised and authorised absence figures to meet government national targets. The school works closely with the Attendance Legal Panel and are obliged to refer parents to them for possible penalty notice fine or prosecution where:

1. A child has unauthorised absence for 10 or more sessions.

2. A child is continually late to school and this lateness is unauthorised for 10 or more sessions.

 

Punctuality

Arriving late regularly is unsettling not just for your child, but also the rest of the class.

8.40am The doors open

8.50am The school day starts (register is taken). Any children arriving after this time will receive a Late  mark (before registers closed) on their attendance record.

9.10am Any children arriving after this time will receive a Late mark (after registers closed) on their             attendance record, which is an unauthorised absence. 

Parents should ensure their child arrives at 8.40am each day.

 

Medical Appointments

Where possible, medical appointments should be arranged for the end of the day, not the start of the day. Arriving late, even after a medical appointment, is unsettling not just for your child, but also the rest of the class.

 

Illness

Parents should call the school office and leave a message each day their child is ill. Please ensure you provide details of the illness, so we can update our records. A reason of ‘feeling ill/unwell’ is not sufficient. Please provide a specific reason.

 

Formal Examinations, Assessment or Testing

It is essential that children are present when formal examinations, assessment or testing is taking place.

Year 1   Phonics screening will take place Monday 12th - 16th June 2017.

Year 2  Phonics screening (children that failed in Year 1 will be re-tested) will take place Monday 12th – Friday 16th June 2017.

Year 2  KS1 SAT’s will take place during the month of May 2017

Year 6  KS2 SATs will take place Monday 8th – Friday 12th May 2017. Additional assessment continues until the end of June 2017.