Home - School Agreement

The Home - School Agreement is a statement explaining:

• the School's aims and values
• the School's responsibilities to pupils of compulsory school age
• what the School expects of its pupils
• the responsibilities of parents

Our Home-School Agreement states that:

We (the School) undertake:

• to create and maintain a climate for learning that incorporates traditional values and is appropriate for the achievement of high standards
• to ensure that your son follows a broad and balanced curriculum
• to provide your son with a tutoring system tailored to his needs as an individual and as a member of the School community that will enhance the effectiveness of his learning
• to ensure that the School's Mission to make boys confident, able and responsible underpins all aspects of your son's education
• to monitor the quality of your son's teaching and learning
• to review your son's academic progress regularly and approximately every half-term
• to provide you with a full profile, a review of your son's performance and an opportunity to meet your son's teachers once each year
• to enable you to receive a Curriculum Information File for each subject your son is taught at School at the beginning of Years 7, 8, 9 and 10
• to publish our homework arrangements every year and ensure that homework is set regularly
• to enable you to receive statutory public examination targets
• to comply with all the published Governors' statutory and non-statutory policy statements
• to ensure that the Governors' policies regarding pupil discipline, behaviour and dress are enforced
• to provide you with the School’s iInternet policy statement at the appropriate time in the School
• to ensure that any complaint made is dealt with promptly and in accordance with published procedure.

You [the parent(s)] undertake:

• to explain to your son the contents and importance of the Home-School Agreement
• to ensure your son's regular and punctual attendance except in the case of illness
• to ensure that your son's homework is properly and punctually completed
• to check regularly your son's exercise books and files to monitor his progress and ensure that his work has been satisfactorily completed
• to inspect and sign each week your son's homework diary or personal organiser and act upon any comment made by a member of staff
• to ensure that you work with your son to formulate targets to be agreed with his tutor and then monitor his performance in achieving them
• to attend all parent/teacher consultation and briefing meetings that will be notified to you in advance
• to support, in full, all the Governors' policies relating to discipline, including detention after School
• to ensure that your son's appearance, hair-style and all items of School uniform conform to the Governors' requirements
• to support the School in guaranteeing your son's appropriate and responsible behaviour in School, when travelling to and from School and whilst participating in School visits or holidays
• to ensure that your son will make a full commitment to the extra-curricular life of the School
• to ensure that your son complies with the School’s internet policy statement
• to accept and comply with all the published Governors' statutory and non-statutory policy statements.