Policies

MOBILE PHONES

From September 2024, and building upon practices we have been slowly introducing since September 2022, NO child is allowed to bring a Smartphone onto the school premises. 

If parents of children in Years 5 and 6 are permitting their child to walk home alone and feel a smartphone is needed in order to supervise this arrangement, or to enable them to better look after their child until such time that the parent returns home from work, then families must make their own decisions regarding this. 

However, we believe that in accommodating this need widely through permitting smartphone use and giving it some justification, we have been creating a greater harm for our children in the unsupervised use of smartphone technology, and we have seen first hand some of the risks our children have faced.

Any smartphone found on a child will be confiscated until a parents calls to the school to collect it.  We do not concur that your child is in greater danger without it.

Parents can give Year 5 and 6 children walking home alone a non-smartphone mobile device instead, however these must remain in the child's bag and not be seen in school.

We thank parents for their support of our stance to enhance the safety of all our children. 

Behaviour Principles

(reviewed by Governors in September 2024)

Our children are proud of their learning and achievements. They, their learning and the work they produce is displayed in classrooms, in public places and, where possible, in the community. Achievements both within and outside of the school are recognised, valued and celebrated.

As governors, we have the highest expectations of behaviour and that all and everything in our school community is centred around our core ARK values: Aspiration, Respect and Kindness.

These expectations are shared by all members of the school community and embodied in a focus on consistent practice, a curriculum that both excites and challenges our children, and teaching strategies focused on the development of self-discipline, personal motivation and responsibility. We underpin these expectations with three key principles:

1) All members of the Bushey Primary Education Federation family have the right to be safe and feel safe at all times, and to enjoy and benefit from their time in our schools.

2) We welcome the ideas and contributions of all. We are inclusive and we seek to both listen and to give a voice to all, nurturing and showing respect for differing perspectives and points of view.

3) We celebrate great behaviour and encourage a positive attitude to learning and to the learning of others at all times. We champion this through our values and ethos, and by modelling in our practice respectful interactions, good manners, kindness and mutual respect.

Appropriate behaviour is reinforced and praised and inappropriate behaviour is always a focus for individual development, challenged and discussed. Staff understand factors, which affect the motivation of children and young people, and take action to encourage an enthusiasm for learning and positive behaviour.