Telephone: 01733 566990 & 01733 343989
Fax: 01733 319403
E-Mail: aab016@peterborough.gov.uk
Web Site: www.fulbridgeschool.com
Head of School: MR I M ERSKINE
Deputy Heads: Mrs C Krzanicki & Mrs C Dingle
GOVERNING BODY
Chairs of Governors: MRS H BATH
Vice Chair of Governors: MRS J BARNES
The Local Authority, teachers, parents and community are represented on the governing body.
The Chair of Governors and Clerk to the Governors can be contacted through the School Office.
Governors serve on the following committees for the school
Premises/Health & Safety, Curriculum, Personnel, Finance, Admission -which meet at least once per term. Full governors’ meetings are held at least twice a term.
The Governors are a voluntary body and no payments were made to any governor during the last school year.
ADMINISTRATION
The Local Education Office is situated in:
Telephone 01733 563141
This book has been compiled to tell you something about our school, the routines, the curriculum and our expectations. I hope the information is helpful if and when any queries occur, please let me know if there is any additional information that you would like to see. Our School Aims, “Unlocking Potential”, describe our vision for the school and its community (see page 3). I am Head of the School and the Governing Body and I work very closely together and meet together on a regular basis.
I look forward to welcoming your son/daughter to
Yours sincerely
IAIN ERSKINE
HEAD OF SCHOOL
“Unlocking Potential: We believe that if we give children the roots…that they will grow wings and fly.”
At Fulbridge we are preparing our pupils for the opportunity, experience and responsibility of adult life in a multi-cultural, multi-faith and multi-lingual society. We also recognise the importance of lifelong learning and the benefits of information technology capability.
Our aim is that they will be able to give of their best. To help them achieve this we will:
· Provide a broad, balanced and well resourced curriculum that allows all children to achieve their fullest potential.
· Ensure a learning environment that is safe, caring and looked after.
· Be understanding of each child’s emotional, social, intellectual, physical and spiritual needs.
· Be just and consistent in matters of discipline and conduct.
· Encourage honesty, self discipline and open-ness.
· Ensure respect and tolerance for the legitimate needs and beliefs of others and develop a true sense of community.
· Encourage creativity, innovation, enterprise, self-reliance and physical fitness.
· Monitor each child’s progress and development.
· Communicate and develop good relations with the wider community.
Admission policy to Reception Classes
We admit 90 pupils into 3 reception classes each year.
Applications for a Reception place must be made by December 14th – the year before the child is due to start in the following September. Applications can be made on line.
You will be notified of whether you have successfully gained a place in the school early in May.
We have an evening meeting for parents in the June before
your child is due to start in the Autumn term when you
will learn who your child’s class teacher will be. Your child will also have the opportunity to visit the school and their classroom during the school day and meet their classteacher and the other pupils in their class.
An individual appointment will be arranged at the beginning of the
Autumn term for you and your child to meet your child’s
class teacher in the classroom.
Please bring your child’s birth certificate with you.
Part-time School First
Entry to school will be on a part-time basis.
The children of any given class will be divided into two groups. One group will attend morning sessions and the other afternoon sessions. This arrangement normally lasts for the first two weeks of term.
School Lunch
Your child will be able to stay to lunch once they begin full-time school. Please advise us if you may be eligible for free school meals
or if you have any special dietary requirements. The school understands the problem posed by allergies and has led the way in providing for this.
(eg: we are a nut-free zone)
The school will agree with you on a start date for full-time school. This may be discussed between the Head of School, the Parents and the Class Teacher if it is felt necessary to do so.
We are happy to speak to your representative eg Bi-lingual Assistant, Childminder, Grandparents etc, if this is more appropriate for you.
We are able to admit 90 pupils into 3 Reception classes each year under the following criteria:
1. LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN
2. VERIFIED MEDICAL NEED RELATING TO THE PUPIL (please note that the requirements are strict). The application should be supported by a report from a doctor or a psychologist, obtained by parents, which sets out essential medical reasons why a child should attend the preferred school rather than an alternative local school.
3. CHILDREN LIVING IN THE SCHOOL’S CATCHMENT AREA - most schools are able to take all the children living in their catchment area. However, if there are more applications than places available, the allocation will be made in the following order:
i) Children with a brother or sister in attendance at the school, at the time of admission. In cases of equal merit, priority will be given to those living nearest to the school by the shortest available safe walking route, from the home address to the school’s nearest official point of entry.
ii) Children who would have furthest to walk by the shortest available safe walking route to the nearest alternative primary school with spare places, from the home address to that school’s nearest official point of entry.
4. CHILDREN LIVING OUTSIDE THE CATCHMENT AREA
Priority will be given in the following order;
a) children with a brother or sister in attendance at the school.
b) to those children living closest to the school by the shortest available safe walking route from the home address to the school’s nearest official point of entry. Within this category, consideration would be given to any children unable to gain access to their local designated school because of over subscription.
The admission criteria for Nursery in priority order are:
1 Looked after Children
2 VERIFIED MEDICAL AND SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEED
(see Special Education Needs paragraph below).
3 Children who have attended Little Gems Nursery in
2 APPLICATIONS FROM PUPILS RESIDENT IN THE CATCHMENT
AREA -
If there are more applications than places available the places will be determined as follows:-
a) priority to be given to a child who already has a brother or sister in the mainstream school.
b) children living nearest the school from the home address to that school’s nearest official point of entry.
3 APPLICATIONS FROM PUPILS RESIDENT OUTSIDE THE
SCHOOL’SCATCHMENT AREA - If there are more applications than places available then places will be determined as follows:-
a) priority to be given to a child who already has a brother or sister in the mainstream school.
b) children living nearest the school from the home address to that school’s nearest official point of entry.
Special Educational Needs in the Nursery Class:
In relation to special educational needs, DFE circular 1/80 “hopes that local authorities will give priority in admissions to nursery schools and classes to handicapped children and to children from socially and economically deprived families.” It should also be noted that the Children’s Act also makes it a duty for the Local Authority to provide for children in need.
In considering allocation of places the Head and Governors will have to take account of the admissions criteria above. Up to 5 full-time equivalent places out of 26 in a nursery class may be reserved for those children whose special educational needs have been registered with the LEA through the pre-school support service.
A further 2 full-time equivalent places may be reserved for identified local social need to be allocated at the discretion of the Head and/or Chair of Governors.
General Information
.About our School
Nursery Provision:
Little Gems 0-2 years and 2- 3 years Fulbridge Gems: 3-4 years
There are 21 classes, not including our Nursery:
Reception 4-5 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes
Year 1 5-6 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes
Year 2 6-7 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes.
Year 3 7-8 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes.
Year 4 8-9 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes.
Year 5 9-10 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes.
Year 6 10-11 year olds (approximately 90 children) – 3 classes.
Each class is named after a well known poet as many of the roads around our school are named after poets:
NURSERY RECEPTION YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3
Little Gems Dahl Ahlberg Tolkien Clare
Fulbridge Gems Rosen Hughes Bronte Coleridge
Milne Carroll Blake Tennyson
Browning Wordsworth
Keats Burns Shakespeare
Shelley Dryden Chaucer
The children are organised into mixed ability groups according to age. The school is organised in three units by year groups:
Children in Nursery and Reception follow the Foundation Stage Curriculum, Year 1 follow the National Curriculum through a Foundation Stage approach and Year 2 follow Key Stage 1 of the National Curriculum and Years 3 to 6, are working within Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum.
SECONDARY EDUCATION
During your child’s final year at Fulbridge parents will receive a booklet entitled “Secondary Education in the Peterborough Area.” This will list the schools to which your child may transfer to at the age of 11. The majority of the children will currently go on to the
Basic information about pupils is held on computer to assist with the efficient organisation of the school and the individual’s educational needs. Security measures are taken to ensure that the information is kept confidential and only available to authorised staff.
The school has however registered under the Data Protection Act a number of organisations to whom it may need to disclose information. Even where such a disclosure has been registered it is only done so in appropriate circumstances and is kept to the minimum necessary.
Pupils may use computers in the course of their studies. They do not have access to records of other pupils. If you are concerned about any aspect of personal information held on computer please contact the School Office or Head of School in the first instance.
Information Technology:
All children have access to computers to support their work and they have broadband internet access. The whole system is on a Learning Platform that allows access to all from home. In addition to this there are banks of computers in our corridors and an ICT suite. These computers are also connected to the World Wide Web. Children have access to this and there are very strict guidelines in place for both staff and pupil use that are strictly adhered to and a ‘firewall’ that stops access to inappropriate sites. All children have their own personal password. The computers are only used for educational purposes. There is a school website at: www.fulbridgeschool.com
Computers are now an integral part of our everyday lives and the use of them is an essential skill for the children to learn. It is therefore a very important subject and we regard it as such.
When using the World Wide Web the site is set up for the children they do not have the opportunity to enter non-educational sites. The use of E-Mail is also restricted to curriculum use. There is not the opportunity to enter chat rooms or use inappropriate sites.
CLOTHING
School colour is light blue and maroon. All clothes, including hats, gloves, PE kit should be clearly marked with your child’s name.
SCHOOL UNIFORM
BOYS
Winter - Any shade of grey/black trousers and a pale blue polo shirt with a maroon jumper, slipover or sweatshirt.
Summer - Trousers as for winter or shorts in grey/black and a light blue polo shirt.
GIRLS
Winter - Any shade of grey skirt or pinafore dress or any shade of grey trousers, light blue polo shirt, maroon jumper, cardigan or sweatshirt.
Summer - Dress (any style) in blue gingham or stripe or skirt in blue gingham, blue polo shirt and maroon cardigan.
All the above items are available from local suppliers.
Sweatshirts and blue polo shirts with the school name embroidered at the front can be ordered from school. There is a range of other school dress, book/PE bags available as well.
FOOTWEAR
Suitable indoor shoes must be provided, not trainers. Please ensure that footwear is clean when you enter the school premises. Children should wear shoes and not trainers around school.
SNOWFALL: If there is snow on the ground we only allow the children out to play if they have brought suitable footwear and clothing into school with them or a change of both footwear and socks.
TRAINERS ARE NOT ALLOWED IN SCHOOL (other than for PE) – SCHOOL SHOES PLEASE.
PE kit should be kept in a named bag on the child’s peg. Please keep it in school from Monday to Friday. It can be taken home for washing at the weekend.
PE (including swimming) is a compulsory subject. Exemption is only possible for verified medical need or injury.
Boys - black shorts, white T-shirt, trainers.
Girls - black leotard or black shorts and white T-shirt, trainers
(The children can wear plimsolls but they are not good for children’s feet and I recommend against them).
The children work in bare feet when using the Hall.
Tracksuits may be worn for outdoor PE. Please ask the class teacher if you have any concerns about appropriate or suitable PE clothing for your child if there are medical or religious circumstances we need to be aware of.
JEWELLERY:
It is unreasonable to expect children to take care of jewellery. Please do not allow your children to wear any jewellery other than items essential to your culture. If you do want them to wear earrings, only studs or sleepers may be worn. Ears only please. The school cannot be responsible for damage caused to ears through the wearing of earrings. For safety the Local Education Authority recommends that no jewellery at all should be worn - I agree with this recommendation.
CLOTHING:
School is a work environment and not a fashion show! Please ensure that the school uniform that your child wears is practical,
they may get paint on it. Shoes should also
be practical, not high platforms or heels,
children do like to play!
HAIR: Hair should be natural colours and
not cut shorter than a number 2, with
no ‘designs’ please.
SCHOOL MEALS:
At lunchtime midday supervisors under my overall supervision supervise the children. These supervisors, due to their role, are very important members of staff. School meals are cooked on the premises and are provided for all children whose parents prefer this. Some parents may be entitled to Free School Meals for their children. Application forms are available from the school office, which when completed should be returned to the address on the form. It is important to apply for these if you are eligible as not only will you benefit but the school will benefit financially as well.
Alternatively the FSM form can be taken to the information desk in the Central Library, Broadway.
School dinners cost £1.65 per day Reception to Year 2 and £1.75 for Years 3-6. All dinner money should be sent to school on a Monday morning in a named purse or envelope. Dinner money will then be collected from the classroom - if your child is absent that day, please deliver money to the school office as soon as your child returns to school.
If your child is going to be late for school due to a medical or dental appointment but will still require a school lunch - please telephone the school or send a letter so that the dinner can be booked with the caterer.
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Water is provided at lunch time to accompany the children’s packed lunch. Alternatively, you may send your child with a drink in a sealed carton or a flask. We regret that flasks which need a cup, cans, bottles and fizzy drinks etc are not allowed. Children may bring a sports drinks bottle to school with water in it to drink during the day. This is stored in the classroom and must be named.
If your child has a yoghurt with their packed lunch please remember to provide a spoon.
We regret that once your child has made a choice of meal, i.e. hot lunch or packed lunch then they must take that particular meal for the complete half-term. This is helpful, not only from an administrative point of view, but also for the caterer when she orders the food for hot lunches. Thank you for your co-operation.
Please call at the school office if you wish to make any alterations to your child’s dinner arrangements.
HYGIENE
Please provide tissues for your child when necessary and teach him/her how to clean his/her nose. Please teach your child how to use the toilet hygienically.
OUTSIDE FACILITIES
Our playgrounds are used by all the children in our school. There are also two small playgrounds, which are only used by Reception and Nursery. All children play on the field when the conditions permit. There is a seated area near the school field that all children use, known as our sensory garden. Next to this area is an adventure play area. In the large playground there is a low level climbing (traversing) wall.
Prams and pushchairs must be left at the entrances. We regret that we cannot accommodate prams and pushchairs in the school building.
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We do not have a playtime before school; no child should arrive on the school premises before 8.40am. Children in Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 make their own way into school via the large playground. You may help your child into the cloakroom and are invited to change their reading book with them if you wish. Lessons start at
It is very important that parents and carers do not interrupt lessons once they have begun.
If children are late they lose part or all of their playtime to make up for the time they missed at the start of the day.
Obviously as parents you know your children so much better than we can hope to and we as teachers rely on you to help us to encourage your child to adjust to the routine and discipline of school. If a child is upset at the beginning of the day, they are often trying to make you feel guilty! As soon as you go, the tears are often switched off! It may be in the interests of your child to leave quickly. Once they are settled and the habit is broken you can successfully return to spending a longer time in the classroom.
Our main entrance on Keeton Road is not used as an entrance or exit at the beginning or end of the day, only during school hours when, for security, this must be the only entrance to school you use.
Reception, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 enter at the rear of school either via
SCHOOL TRIPS
The children will go on at least one out of school outing each term. There may also be further local visits. All of these trips are linked to the topic work and are an important part of the term’s work, and one which the children thoroughly enjoy. We ask for a payment towards these visits. We also ask the parents to sign a permission form to allow us to take the children on short walks within the local environment whenever it is necessary to do so in line with the work they are doing in class.
If we do not receive a contribution for school visits then these visits may not be able to go ahead as the school would not be able to fund them by itself.
It is important to return reply slips for these visits promptly.
In year 2 the children have the opportunity to go on a one night residential visit to Stibbington Field Studies Centre. As this is an overnight stay the cost of the visit must be met by the parents/carers. Year 4 stay two nights camping in Derbyshire as their residential trip and year 6 children also go on a two night residential trip to Norfolk for an ‘adventurous’ activities weekend. The school has a policy with guidelines about all school trips based on Local Authority guidelines. We adhere strictly to these guidelines.
Due to the age of the children combined with the length of the school day After School Clubs are more appropriate to the older children. We have to charge for some of the clubs.
We are very fortunate in having a talented and dedicated staff who give freely of their own time to run a wide variety of extra curricular activities. These are run before school, during the lunch break or after school. The clubs presently offered include:
Football Country Dancing Netball Singing Recorders Choir Drama
Athletics Cricket Guitars Keyboards Cross Country Computer Line Dancing
Gymnastics Dance Violin
We are also fortunate to be able to offer a number of other musical activities.
We also run a breakfast club in the mornings for identified children. This is sponsored by the Bakens Oven.
TELEVISION
On the rare occasion when the children watch TV in school they watch educational programmes especially devised for children by educationalists to assist in the development of literacy, numeracy and scientific skills or to provide general knowledge at an appropriate level for young children.
Occasionally, these programmes are recorded, or professionally produced DVD’s are shown to the children, linked to the Topic work or literature that is being studied at time. However, research shows that many children spend 5 hours or more a day in front of a screen so we try to keep this to a minimum. At the end of term the children may watch a film as a treat.
All children under the age of 7 years need adult supervision when coming to school. DO NOT send them on their own. Children are deemed to be late if they arrive after 8.50 am. The school doors open from
ENTRY FROM
Oil tankers, lorries, delivery vans and staff cars use the drive at the rear of the school. For reasons of safety, children and parents are not allowed to use the driveway entrance. Two footpaths have been provided for your use at the rear of school. The path for pedestrians and cycles leads past the Conservation Area to the bike racks near the outdoor PE store.
Parents are not allowed to bring their cars into the drive and car parking area.
Thankfully we have had very few incidents of inappropriate behaviour, by parents, on the school site. Our aim is to provide the children with good examples of appropriate behaviour. We do not expect to hear any foul language on our school site in any context or observe any violent/aggressive behaviour. If a parent/carer behaves in an aggressive manner, verbally or physically, then they will be asked to leave the site. Such behaviour may result in the offender being banned from the school site and/or the police being called. Local Authority and police advice is that we should phone’999’ if there is any such unacceptable behaviour by adults on the school site.
SCHOOL RESPONSIBILTY
The staff in Years 1,2 and Reception are instructed to hand your child over to you personally at the end of each day at
The class teacher observes your child on a day to day basis and will point out any worries he/she may have about progress or development. As the Headteacher I also accept overall responsibility for all children and I am vigilant in ensuring their safety and well being. We have an accident book in which we write all reported incidents of illness or injury. It is important that if your child hurts him or herself or is hurt by someone else that they report it immediately after the incident occurs. Only then can we act. If an accident has occurred that concerns you please see the class teacher as there are often many opinions about what has happened!
The school is equipped with ramps and a disabled toilet. The buildings are all on one level, and corridors are wide. We have a disabled access policy and any disabled visitors should try and contact the school in advance so that we can arrange easy access for you. All children regardless of their disability have access to the same curriculum or if necessary it is modified. With the new Children’s Centre we have modified some doorways and access points to make it more accessible to disabled people and provided disabled parking at the front of school.