School Policies

Our school has a wide variety of policies, aimed towards providing the best possible care for anyone who visits or attends our school. For your convenience, here are a selection of policies that might be of interest to you.

If you would like a paper copy (or any other format) of any of our documents on our website please speak to the school office, who will provide them to you free of charge. If you require further information about any of the items shown in this section, please contact the school and we will do our best to help.

• Accessibility Plan April 2019
• Admission Policy 2019-20
• Admission Policy 2020-21
• Admission Policy 2021-22
• Anti Bullying Policy 2019
• Attendance Policy 2019-2020
• Behaviour & Discipline Policy 2020
• British Values Mission Statement 2019
• Charging Policy 2019
• Complaints Procedure 2019
• Consent Form for School 2018 (GDPR Compliant)
• Equality Information and Objectives April 2019
• E-Safety Acceptable Use Policy KS1
• E-Safety Acceptable Use Policy KS2
• Health & Safety Policy 2018
• Home School Agreement 2018-19
• Intimate Care Policy 2019
• Mobile Phone Contract 2018
• No Smoking Policy
• Photograph Permissions
• Prevent Policy 2018
• Remote Learning Policy – Oct 2020
  • Supporting learning at home St Joseph’s Oct 2020
  • TEAMS – Parent & Pupil Guide – St Joseph’s Oct 2020
• Searching, Screening and Confiscation (Advice) 2018
• SEN Policy April 2019
• Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions 2020
  • Individual healthcare plans
  • Parental agreement for medicines
  • Over the counter Medicine form

• Teaching & Learning 2018
• Use of Reasonable Force (Advice) Policy 2015
• Visitors Policy 2019

Keeping Children Safe in School

• Keeping Children Safe in School – Safeguarding Policy 2018
  • • Appendix 1 Roles, Responsibilities and Entitlements
    • Appendix 2 Signs and symptoms of abuse
    • Appendix 3 Behaviour guidelines for staff and volunteers
    • Appendix 5 Referral form for first contact
    • Appendix 6 Summary of Multi Agency Meetings
    • Appendix 7 Information sharing
    • Appendix 7b Information Sharing 2018
    • Appendix 8 The eight golden rules for information sharing
    • Appendix 9 The Brook Traffic Light Tool
    • Appendix 10 Guidance on sexting incidents
    • Appendix 11 Responding and Managing Sexting Incidents
    • Appendix 12 Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence – Advice
• Keeping children safe in education Part 1 Sept 2020
• Keeping children safe in education Sept 2020

Data Protection

St Joseph’s Catholic School collects and uses pupil information under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Education Act 1996 which are a lawful basis for collecting and using pupil information for general purposes (and from Article 6 and Article 9 where data processed is special category data from the General Data Protection Regulation from 25 May 2018).

• Privacy Notice for Pupils and Parents (2019)

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