School Policies

Fetcham Village Infant School aims to value each pupil as an individual and enable them to achieve their full potential through a wide variety of opportunities and experiences. This document sets out the school’s policy for charging for the provision of this wide variety of opportunities and experiences. Whilst the intention is to apply the policy equally in order to promote fairness, every effort will be made to ensure that no child is prevented from participating because of financial circumstances.

This policy aims to: ● Make sure the school’s premises and facilities can be used, where appropriate, to support community or commercial organisations ● Allow the hiring of the premises without using the school’s delegated budget to subsidise this ● Charge for the use of the premises to cover the costs of hire and, where appropriate, raise additional funds for the school ● Not let any hiring out of the premises interfere with the school’s primary purpose of providing education to its pupils ● Hire out facilities in a way that is safe, following government guidelines and the school’s risk assessment(s)

The purpose of this policy is to provide staff, volunteers and Governors with the framework they need in order to keep children safe and secure in our setting. The policy also informs parents and carers how we will safeguard their children whilst they are in our care.

Statutory guidance for schools and colleges. Part one: Information for all school and college staff

This leaflet contains information about our expectations of you whilst visiting the school. It gives information about our Safeguarding and Emergency Procedures.

ICT is an integral part of the way our school works, and is a critical resource for pupils, staff, trainees including trainee teachers and work experience students, parents, governors and contractors. It supports teaching and learning, pastoral and administrative functions of the school. However, the ICT resources and facilities our school uses pose risks to data protection, online safety and safeguarding. This policy aims to: ● Set guidelines and rules on the use of school ICT resources for staff, pupils, parents and governors ● Establish clear expectations for the way all members of the school community engage with each other online ● Support the school’s policy on data protection, online safety and safeguarding ● Prevent disruption to the school through the misuse, or attempted misuse, of ICT systems ● Support the school in teaching pupils safe and effective internet and ICT use This policy covers all users of our school’s ICT facilities, including governors, staff and pupils. Breaches of this policy will be dealt with under our staff code of conduct policy.

Our school aims to: - Have robust processes in place to ensure the online safety of pupils, staff, volunteers and governors - Deliver an effective approach to online safety, which empowers us to protect and educate the whole school community in its use of technology - Establish clear mechanisms to identify, intervene and escalate an incident, where appropriate The 4 key categories of risk Our approach to online safety is based on addressing the following categories of risk: - Content: being exposed to illegal, inappropriate or harmful content, such as pornography, misinformation, disinformation (including fake news), conspiracy theories, racism, misogyny, self-harm, suicide, antisemitism, radicalisation and extremism - Contact: being subjected to harmful online interaction with other users, such as peer-to-peer pressure, commercial advertising and adults posing as children or young adults with the intention to groom or exploit the user for sexual, criminal, financial or other purposes - Conduct: personal online behaviour that increases the likelihood of, or causes, harm, such as making, sending and receiving explicit images (e.g. consensual and non-consensual sharing of nudes and semi-nudes and/or pornography), sharing other explicit images and online bullying; and - Commerce: risks such as online gambling, inappropriate advertising, phishing and/or financial scams

Educational visits are activities arranged by, or on behalf of, our school, which require children to leave the school premises, having been authorised to do so by the headteacher or other designated member of staff. Educational visits are a valuable way to supplement and enhance the curriculum, expand children’ education and provide enriching social and cultural experiences, teach life skills and promote independent learning, providing a foundation for lifelong learning. They form an integral part of our approach to furthering our children’ education and personal growth. This policy sets out our approach to planning and operating educational visits, to ensure the health and safety of our children and staff, and to make sure that our visits are available to all children. It sets out the roles and responsibilities of staff, children and volunteers when it comes to visits. This policy applies to activities taking place within and outside of normal school hours, including weekends and holiday periods. This includes (but is not limited to): ● Visits to places of interest in the local area ● Day visits to places such as museums and other cultural and educational institutions ● Sporting activities ● Adventurous and recreational activities

Our school’s mission is: Learning together, doing our best and being kind! Our guiding principles of CLOVER (Community, Learning to Learn, Opportunities, Values, Environment and Risk Taking) begin with community. We believe that clear, open communication between members of our community has a positive impact on pupils’ learning because it: ● Gives parents/carers the information they need to support their child’s education ● Helps the school improve, through feedback and consultation with parents/carers ● Builds trust between home and school, which helps the school better support each child’s educational and pastoral needs The aim of this policy is to promote clear and open communication by: ● Explaining how the school communicates with parents/carers ● Setting clear standards and expectations for responding to communication from parents/carers ● Helping parents/carers reach the member of school staff who is best placed to address their specific query or concern so they can get a response as quickly as possible

In RE at FVIS, children learn the importance of respect and understanding of different faiths whilst learning to be confident about questioning and sharing their own views and beliefs. This plays a crucial role in promoting British values and preparing children to live in an integrated modern day multi-faith and multi-cultural society. By exploring and discussing different beliefs and practices, children learn values of being kind, trying our best, working well together, being honest, being curious and being brave. Children are encouraged to compare and question different faiths without judgement as they deepen their understanding of different faiths. Cross-curricular links in RE are made when appropriate to further embed learning.

School assembly will reflect the variety of attitudes, views and beliefs of children and staff of the school. Assemblies will contribute to the spiritual, moral, cultural and social development of children and should help them prepare for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of adult life. They should take account of the age, aptitude and family background of children, including their faith background. We want our children to enjoy assemblies, encouraging a sense of community and sharing. As part of assembly is required to be wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character and will reflect the skills, processes and attitudes which lie at the heart of religious education. These are outlined in the Surrey Agreed Syllabus.

This policy aims to: ● Set out our approach to requiring a uniform that is of reasonable cost and offers the best value for money for parents and carers ● Explain how we will avoid discrimination in line with our legal duties under the Equality Act 2010 ● Clarify our expectations for school uniform

We believe that volunteers provide a valuable contribution to the school’s work, and that they enrich the school through the breadth of their knowledge and experience. We are committed to using volunteers in a way that supports the school’s mission of Learning Together, doing our best- being kind! as well as our School Values. The aim of FVIS’ volunteer policy is to: ● Encourage the wider community to engage with the school, thereby enhancing the curriculum, raising achievement and promoting community cohesion ● Ensure that volunteers support the school’s vision and values, and adhere to our policies ● Provide staff, volunteers and parents with clear expectations and guidelines ● Set a clear, fair process for recruiting and managing volunteers This policy has been developed in line with the statutory safeguarding guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) from the Department for Education (DfE).

FVIS response to questions relating to our SEND offer

This document outlines our SEND provision according to the needs of the children at any given time. It is liable to change according to resource allocation, staffing structures and pupil intake.

This report supplements our Special Educational needs Policy. It aims to explain how we implement our SEND policy and show you how SEND support works in our school.

At Fetcham Village Infant School, we believe that everyone deserves to feel valued, respected, and safe in our learning community. We are committed to being an anti-racist school where discrimination of any kind is not tolerated, and where everyone can thrive regardless of their race, ethnicity, or cultural background.

Safeguarding the children at Fetcham Village Infant School is always our priority. Our Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSL's) are: Mr S Sharp - DSL Mrs E Wright - Deputy DSL Mr G McGovern - Deputy DSL Please do talk to the above staff about any concerns regarding the safety or well-being of a pupil. As part of our commitment to safeguard all children, all staff are regularly trained in safeguarding and are confident practitioners. Our school successfully operates an open door policy where parents/carers are welcome to discuss concerns or queries with any member of staff. If emailing or phoning, please mention 'safeguarding' - this will ensure your concern is sent to the most appropriate Leader. We keep up to date with relevant statutory safeguarding guidance and our Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy is updated on a yearly basis. You can find it below, along with other relevant documentation and the school's Safeguarding Leaflet for visitors.

We are committed to meeting our obligations with regards to school attendance, including those laid out in the Department for Education’s (DfE’s) statutory guidance on working together to improve school attendance, through our whole-school culture and ethos that values good attendance, including: ● Promoting good attendance and the benefits of good attendance ● Reducing absence, including persistent and severe absence ● Ensuring every pupil has access to the full-time education to which they are entitled ● Acting early to address patterns of absence ● Building strong relationships with families to make sure pupils have the support in place to attend school

At Fetcham Village Infant School we believe that positive behaviour is an essential condition for effective learning and teaching. We believe in fostering an atmosphere of positivity and mutual respect, where pupils take responsibility for their behaviour, learn from their mistakes and put this right. At FVIS we aim to create an environment which is safe, friendly and fair. Therefore our Behaviour Policy is underpinned by our values and guided by our school principles: CLOVER (Community, Learning to Learn, Opportunities, Values, Environment and Risk taking).

Our school aims to ensure that all personal data collected about staff, pupils, parents, governors, visitors and other individuals is collected, stored and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Data Protection Act 2018. The School will make every effort to meet its obligations under the respective legislation and will regularly review procedures to ensure that it is doing so. The underlying principle of this policy is that the public have a right to access recorded information held by the School and that the School should seek to promote an open regime regarding access to information, subject to the exemptions contained within the relevant legislation.

All public authorities, including schools, are required under the Freedom of Information Act to adopt a publication scheme that has been approved by the Information Commissioner. Fetcham Village Infant School has adopted the ICO's model freedom of information publication scheme. Our school aims to ensure that all personal data collected about staff, pupils, parents, governors, visitors and other individuals is collected, stored and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The School will make every effort to meet its obligations under the respective legislation and will regularly review procedures to ensure that it is doing so.

All schools must provide a curriculum that is broadly based, balanced and meets the needs of all pupils. Under section 78 of the Education Act 2002 and the Academies Act 2010, a PSHE curriculum: ● Promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society, and ● Prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

Fetcham Village Infant School Privacy Notice sets out: - how we use pupil information - how we store our data - who we share pupil information with

This policy is a formal statement of the principles that the governing body of Fetcham Village Infant School has adopted in relation to the recruitment and selection of staff. We expect those involved in any stage of the recruitment and selection process to comply with the contents of the policy and familiarise themselves with any associated guidance and resources available to the school. The policy addresses the relevance of safeguarding, equalities and relevant employment legislation to the process of appointing appropriately skilled staff of all categories, accords with the school’s strategic objective to provide a safe and professional learning environment in which children can thrive and provides a framework for an efficient, effective and legally compliant recruitment process. The governing body is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Accordingly, this policy complies with the current DfE guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’. By ensuring that our recruitment and selection processes help to deter, identify and/or reject people who represent a risk of harm to children, or are otherwise unsuited to work with them, we can strengthen safeguards for children and young people.

It is the aim of all staff and Governors of Fetcham Village Infant School that, together with the aims from the Teaching and Learning policy of the school, all children should be provided with opportunities to achieve their very best and become successful, well-rounded individuals. All children will enjoy a broad and balanced curriculum which will meet every individual need.

This policy aims to set and maintain standards of conduct that we expect all staff to follow. By creating this policy, we aim to ensure our school is an environment where everyone is safe, happy and treated with respect. At FVIS we aim to create an environment which is safe, friendly and fair. Therefore our Staff Code of Conduct is underpinned by our values and guided by our school principles: CLOVER (Community, Learning to Learn, Opportunities, Values, Environment and Risk taking).

This policy aims to ensure that: ● Pupils, staff and parents/carers understand how our school will support pupils with medical conditions ● Pupils with medical conditions are properly supported to allow them to access the same education as other pupils, including school trips and sporting activities The governing board will implement this policy by: ● Making sure sufficient staff are suitably trained ● Making staff aware of pupils’ conditions, where appropriate ● Making sure there are cover arrangements to ensure someone is always available to support pupils with medical conditions ● Providing supply teachers with appropriate information about the policy and relevant pupils ● Developing and monitoring individual health care plans (IHPs)

We are committed to following all statutory exclusions procedures to ensure that every child receives an education in a safe and caring environment. Our school aims to: ● Ensure that the exclusions process is applied fairly and consistently ● Help governors, staff, parents/carers and pupils understand the exclusions process ● Ensure that pupils in school are safe and happy ● Prevent pupils from becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training) ● Ensure al suspensions and permanent exclusions are carried out lawfully

This policy will promote high expectations and raise standards of achievement for all children in our school. It outlines our expectations to make sure everyone is committed to achieving a consistent approach to teaching and learning across our school by involving children, parents and the wider school community in children’s learning and development.

The whistleblowing policy is intended to cover serious concerns that fall outside the scope of other procedures, in accordance with the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. These include: • Conduct which is an offence or a breach of law • Failure to comply with a legal obligation • Disclosures related to miscarriages of justice • Health and safety risks, including risks to the public as well as other employees/staff • Damage to the environment • Information relating to the above issues that has been or is likely to be deliberately concealed.