Key Policies and Information

Policies

Safeguarding and Child Protection

Hallow  is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We have safer recruitment procedures in place, and policies and practice to ensure that your child is safe while at school. These can be found below. The Safeguarding and Child Protection policy is reviewed regularly by governors and updated annually.

The aims of these policies and procedures are to provide a safe environment for the children. We also aim to identify children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm, taking appropriate action if required to keep them safe both in school and at home. This includes preventing unsuitable people working with the children; ensuring visitors and volunteers are appropriately checked,  promoting safe practice (and challenging poor and unsafe practice); maintaining a safe and secure school site, and protecting pupils from harm online. We also help pupils to reject extremist views,  and we  constantly review and update our practices in all areas of safeguarding.

Please see below for our key safeguarding policies, and for guidance on keeping your child safe online. Also included below are other important policies.

Charges and Remissions Policy

RSE Policy

Uniform Expectations

Pupil Premium

Hallow CE Primary School Pupil Premium Spend Plan

 The Government introduced the Pupil Premium in April 2011, as a means of addressing underlying inequalities between children from low income families who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) and their peers, by ensuring that funding to tackle disadvantage reaches the pupils who need it most. There are three categories of pupils that are eligible: 

• Children who are either currently eligible for FSM or have been eligible for FSM in the past six years; 
• Children who have been looked after by a local authority (in care) continuously for more than six months; 
• Children who have been adopted from care 
• Children of Armed Forces Personnel

For more information: Pupil premium: overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

 link to PP Grant Strategy 

OFSTED and SIAMS Reports

Please see below for the reports of our most recent inspections.

Link to Ofsted report May 2022

Link to SIAMS report June 2018

Link to nursery Ofsted report July 2022

You can give your views as parents by logging in to Ofsted’s Parent View Website:

Welcome to Ofsted Parent View | Ofsted Parent View

Hallow CE Primary School Performance Data

Please see below a link to the School and College Performance Measures Website

School and college performance measures - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please see below our current performance data.

Link to Hallow primary data overview 2023

Financial Information

Financial Benchmarking

All maintained schools must publish how many school employees (if any) have a gross annual salary of £100,000 or more in increments of £10,000.

Hallow Primary School has 0 employees with a gross annual salary of £100,000 or more.

You can see how our finances compare to other schools by following this link:

Hallow CofE Primary School - Schools Financial Benchmarking - GOV.UK

schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk

Children Looked After

The designated Teacher for Children Looked After and Previously Looked After is Roberta Hannon.  We work closely with the Virtual School for Children Looked After and Previously Looked After Children

https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/virtualschool

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Telephone: 01905 844913

Phonics

The Phonics and Reading scheme that we use is called ‘Little Wandle.

Letters and Sounds | A complete Phonics resource to support children (littlewandlelettersandsounds.org.uk)

PE/Sports Premium

About the PE and Sport Premium

All children and young people should live healthy active lives. The UK Chief Medical Officers recommend that all children and young people should take part in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity for at least 60 minutes every day. Children with special educational needs and disabilities should take part in 20 minutes of daily activity.

The Childhood Obesity Plan says that at least 30 minutes of daily activity should take place in schools.

Schools have a key role to play in achieving this aim. This is particularly true of primary schools where the foundations of positive and enjoyable participation in regular physical activity are embedded. All children should have equal access to high-quality PE provision and opportunities to experience and participate in a wide range of sports and physical activities. Academic achievement can improve in school because of the benefits children can gain.

Schools should use the PE and sport premium funding to help achieve these aims. It must not be used for core-type school activities. They should use it to make additional and sustainable improvements to the PE, sport and physical activity they provide, such as:

• funding high-quality PE and sport for at least 2 hours a week, complemented by a wide range of extracurricular sport and competitive opportunities
• providing or improving equal access to sport for boys and girls

Schools should prioritise PE and sport premium spending to improve in the following 5 key areas:

• increasing all staff’s confidence, knowledge and skills in teaching PE and sport
• increasing engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity and sport
• raising the profile of PE and sport across the school, to support whole school improvement
• offer a broader and more equal experience of a range of sports and physical activities to all pupils
• increase participation in competitive sport

For further information: PE and sport premium for primary schools - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

[link to Sports premium 202324]

Swimming Statement

2022/3

At the end of the academic year 2022, 94% of the year group achieved the swimming standard set in the National Curriculum.

School Day

We run a breakfast club (Busy Bees) from 7.45am which provides a safe and nurturing environment for your child.  A healthy breakfast choice is available including cereals, pastries toast, fruit juice and milk.  The club runs Monday to Friday during term time and we are able to take children from Nursery to Year 6. Please see the Wraparound tab in the parents menu for more information. 

Our school day starts at 8.55am and ends at 3.15pm. Teachers welcome pupils in from the front playground from 8.45am.

After school clubs run usually until 4.15pm.  Our wraparound care provides afterschool fun from 3.15pm- 5.30pm. The children are offered a fruit snack and a light tea during this time.