harwood park primary school

42 Pages·2011·0.61 MB·English

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

HARWOOD PARK

PRIMARY SCHOOL

2012
Welcome
to
Harwood Park
Primary
School

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CONTENTS

Page
4 Mission statement and school aims
7 General information about the school
Accessibility
8-9 School staff and governors
10 Breakfast Club
Rules on dogs
11 Parental involvement
12 The school day
13 Term dates
Taking holidays in school time
Office hours
14 How the school is organised
15 Homework
16 -20 The curriculum
21 Provision for sport
22 Sex Education
Assessment
23 Special Educational Needs
24 School Discipline
Bullying
26 Educational Visits
27 Extra-curricular activities
Arts policy
28 -29 School dress
30 School meals, milk and snacks
Health and welfare
31 Medicines
Child protection
32 Attendance and punctuality
33 Starting school
34 Admissions policy
35 Complaints
Policy for charging
37-41 School results 2011

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Our Mission Statement

Harwood Park - a welcoming and inclusive community where
all are enabled to become successful learners, confident
individuals and responsible citizens

Our 4 Core Values

Kindness, Co-operation, Respect, Perseverance

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The Aims of the School

We aim:
1. To make this school a place of enjoyment where learning is
celebrated.
2. To be an inclusive school and put into place the practice in all
aspects of our work to ensure that all learners are given equality of
opportunity and treated fairly.
3. To promote and achieve high standards for all by providing
teaching and learning of the highest quality
4. To treat learners as individuals and to personalise teaching and
learning to take account of their individual and special needs.
5. To provide well for learners physical, mental, social, spiritual, moral
and cultural needs.
6. To provide well for learners care, health and safety.
7. To ensure that all learners benefit from a rich, broad balanced
curriculum presented in an interesting, exciting and imaginative
manner with lots of opportunities for first-hand experience,
practical work, investigation and learning through play.
8. To teach all subjects well and to give emphasis to teaching basic
skills and the creative aspects including art, story, dance, music
and performance. These will be central to our work.
9. To make connections between subjects and enable children to apply
skills across the curriculum
10. To enliven and enrich the curriculum by visits, visitors and
extensive use of the environment.
11. To give responsibility to learners and develop their self-confidence
by contributing to the community.
12. To actively engage parents and promote parental participation in
learning by treating parents with respect, ensuring effective
communication and information giving, offering opportunities for
parents to become involved in their child’s learning and through
signposting to sources of help & support.
13. To develop an effective range of partnerships and links with the
wider community.
14. To set challenging targets and recognise for the sake of our
learners we can always do better
15. To build an ethos marked by a welcoming, friendly, bright and
lively, happy place where learners feel secure. A place where good
behaviour is expected and where learners enjoy growing up.

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Harwood Park
Primary School
For children aged three to eleven years

Hardfield Street, Heywood, Lancs OL10 1DG
Telephone: [phone]

Head Teacher: Mrs Julie E. Pickles

Deputy Head Teacher: Miss Sheila Birkett

Chair of Governors: Mr Stephen Brown

email: [email protected]

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General Information about the School
Harwood Park Primary School is a Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Education Authority
co-educational community primary school for day pupils, with part-time places for
Nursery aged pupils in our Early Years Foundation Stage Unit. We are situated near the
centre of Heywood. There are street parking facilities near to the Civic Hall.
The school is recognised as an Investor in People. In May 2010 we gained the Arts
Council’s Artsmark Silver Award. We have also achieved Activemark and ‘I can’ status.
The school was awarded the Healthy Schools award in 2008.

School Buildings and Grounds
We are housed in a two-storey building, circa 1914. The school has recently been
remodelled under the Primary Capital Programme. Classrooms are modern, light and airy.
There are large play areas to the rear of the building. We have a school field a short
distance away from the main site.

Community Use
We run a Breakfast Club, which operates from 8am - 9am in the school's Community
Room. This room is available to hire by community groups.

Accessibility
Accessibility and provision for disabled persons is very good.

Pupil numbers
The number of children on roll in each year group at end September 2011:

Age Group Number of Children
Nursery/ Foundation 1 (3-4years) 17
Reception/ Foundation 2 (4-5years) 32
Year 1 40
Year 2 39
Year 3 39
Year 4 17
Year 5 24
Year 6 44
Total Number of Pupils 252 pupils

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School Staff 2011-12

Teachers
Mrs Julie Pickles Head Teacher
Miss Sheila Birkett Deputy Headteacher. Classteacher Y6
Mrs Lauren Flitcroft Assistant Headteacher, Classteacher EYFS
Mrs Rebecca Savage KS1 Teaching & Learning Manager, Classteacher Y2
Miss Deborah Wood Classteacher Y6
Miss Helen Law Classteacher Y5
Mrs Donna Derbyshire Classteacher Y3/4
Mrs Danielle Macey Classteacher Y3
Miss Gemma Burrows Classteacher Y1/2
Miss Linzi Owen Classteacher Y1
Mrs Emily Allan Classteacher EYFS
Mrs Eira Short Part-time teacher
Mrs Christine Mooney Part-time teacher
Miss Louise Padwell Part-time teacher KS2 music

Office Staff Premises Staff
Mrs Gillian Lever School Administrator Mr Jim Procter Site Supervisor
Mrs Nicola Burns Assistant Secretary Mrs Anne Higginson School Cleaner
Mrs Wendy Barrett Pastoral Secretary Mrs Karen Rosales School Cleaner
Mrs Maggie Needham School Cleaner
Mrs Karen Morton School Cleaner

Classroom Support Staff Lunchtime Organisers
Mrs Anne Burt Nursery Nurse Mrs Anne Higginson Mrs Samantha Miller
Mrs Liz McArthur Learning Mentor (Senior) Vacancy
Mrs Cath Widdrington Teaching Assistant Mrs Deborah Graves Mrs Karen Morton
Mrs Lisa Colam Teaching Assistant Mrs Karen Rosales Mrs Louise Burgoyne
Mrs Janet Brown Teaching Assistant Mrs Anjuman Shaheen Mrs Janet Brown
Mrs Melanie Lee Teaching Assistant Mrs Samantha Hill Mrs Amanda Stephens
Mrs Samantha Miller Teaching Assistant Mrs Dawn Branigan Miss Megan Higginson
Mrs Linda Matthews Teaching Assistant
Mrs Karen Deadman Teaching Assistant
Mrs Robyn Mair Teaching Assistant
Mrs Louise Burgoyne Teaching Assistant
Vacancy Teaching Assistant
Mrs Samantha Hill Support Assistant
Mrs Sue Carty Support Assistant
Miss Caroline McArthur Support Assistant
Mrs Christine Bytheway Support Assistant
Miss Jenny Mamoun Teaching Assistant / Breakfast Club Leader

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School Governors

The Chair of Governors is Mr Stephen Brown.

The Vice-Chair of Governors is Mr Simon Steward.

Address for Correspondence:-
Chair of Governors C/O Harwood Park Primary
School,
Hardfield Street, Heywood, Lancs. OL10 1DG

The Governors are:-

LA Governors: Mr P. Winkler, Cllr M. Bruce, Cllr D. Brophy-Lee, Cllr R. Dutton,
Mr S. Britton

Staff Governors: Mr J. Procter, Miss S. Birkett, Mrs J. E. Pickles (Headteacher)

Community Governors: Mr S. Brown (Chair), Mrs P. Ainsworth, Vacancy, Mr I. Goddard,

Parent Governors: Mr S. Steward (Vice -chair), Mr S. Mc Nee, Mrs C. Pilkington,
Ms C. Boss, Vacancy

Governing Body –September 2011

The Governors have one full Governing Body Meeting each term.
Committees of the Governing Body meet more regularly and report to the

full Governors’ Meetings.
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Breakfast Club

Our Breakfast Club operates daily from 8am in the school’s new Community Room.

Staff
Breakfast Club Leader: Miss Jennifer Mamoun
Breakfast Club Assistant: Mrs Liz McArthur (Learning Mentor)

Charges
The cost is £2.00 per day, £10.00 per full week per child.

Children are provided with a light breakfast and there are supervised activities for the
children. If you would like your child to attend Breakfast Club please enquire at the

school office, as places are limited.

Dogs in School

Dogs, with the exception of guide dogs, are not allowed on school grounds.

We ask that parents leave dogs at home or wait well outside the school gate with
their dog(s) when dropping off or picking up their children.

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