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Newick House School
Birchwood Grove Road
Burgess Hill
West Sussex
RH15 0DP

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01444 233550

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01444 870043

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office@newickhouse.w-sussex.sch.uk

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Our Homework Policy

Explains our school approach to setting homework.

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Our Charging Policy

Explains how our school approaches the issue of paying for extra activities such as excursions, residential trips and items needed in practical lessons.

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Child Protection Policy

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Find out about other useful websites, including local clubs and support for parents.

Find out about the Friends of Newick House.

Pupils pages, photos and news.

Find out about our governors. Here you can read profiles on each of our governors.

Find out about our school policies, read recent letters and other information for prospective and current parents.

Find out about our school day, term dates, uniform and read our prospectus.

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Parents' Evenings
Newick House holds three parents' consultations per year.
We often have a focus for these evenings, e.g. '6 weeks in' for new parents in the autumn term, family briefings prior to residential trips, healthy packed lunch options.
Letters will be sent out either electronically or by post prior to each consultation stating the timings and giving you a chance to book in for a specific slot with staff.
For parents who cannot make the times and days advertised please contact the class team who will try to find another time to suit.

Parents' Evenings

Information about Dinners

Notification of Absence

Information about SchoolComms

Annual Reviews

If Your Child Becomes ill Whilst at School

Transport Contacts

Volunteering to Help in School or on Trips

Our Complaints Procedure

AIM

To ensure that all complaints are dealt with promptly and effectively with proper feedback and appropriate consequential action.

ACTION

1. The majority of complaints will always be dealt with through informal
discussion and settled amicably.

2. Complaints which cannot be settled informally will be dealt with by the Deputy Heads: Kevin Banfield for matters concerning the curriculum, individual members of staff and individual students? Ian Hickey for matters concerning pastoral work and community issues.

3. If the action taken by the Deputy Heads does not resolve the matter the Head becomes involved and makes a final decision.

4. Parents have the right to take a complaint to the governors if they feel it has not been satisfactorily resolved by the Head. There is a new detailed Complaints Policy a copy of which is available from Head's P.A. The governors have a Complaints Committee to deal with complaints and appeals.

If you wish to contact the governors regarding a complaint, please email lrydon@wsgfl.org.uk

5. Further stages, to the Education Committee and the Secretary of State, are available for parents.

COUNTY POLICY
The LEA complaints procedure has been adopted by the school. A copy is lodged with Head's P.A.

This is a West Sussex County Council policy which explains how any complaints will be dealt with.

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Holiday Request Forms

Please use this form to request permission for a holiday in term time. We request that you read the attached 'Holidays in term time' leaflet before completing your form.

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Home School Agreement

This is an example of a contract between the school, the parents/carers and the pupil.

Administering Medication in School

This form allows parents/carers to request that the school administer prescribed medication.

Positive Handling Plans

Positive Handling (Team Teach) is a recognised technique. In our school we need to use positive handling to keep pupils and staff safe. This blank form shows the type of approach we would use to avoid unsafe situations in school.

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Information about Dinners
Teachers and support staff eat with the children. We aim to make lunchtime an enjoyable social occasion.
A cooked school lunch with the option of salad for Secondary pupils is available each day at £1.90 per day. The school catering service makes every effort to meet special dietary needs.
The option of your child bringing in their own packed lunch is of course available and for some preferable.
For some of our pupils who have not had school dinners before or others who have a limited palate or experience of food we also offer taster plates. This option should be discussed with your child's class team.

Home Learning

Curriculum grids and information about home learning can now be found on the VLE

Notification of Absence
Please advise the office as soon as you know your child is not in school due to illness or other reasons.
The office is staffed from 8.15 each morning; though if there are a high number of calls or you ring particularly early please leave a message on our voicemail service stating your name, your child's name, their class and the reason for their absence.
If your son/daughter does not arrive at school and we have not heard from you, the school office will send you a text alert shortly after 9.30am.
Unexplained absences need to be recorded and we may need to send lateness and attendance letters if a child is frequently late or absent.

Information about SchoolComms Texts and E-mails give us quick electronic communication with parents and carers through SchoolComms. This is very useful in the case of emergencies and snowy weather as well as for more routine communication such as weekly information sheets. For parents and carers who choose not to use this we continue to send out information in more traditional ways.	Close

Annual Reviews
All children with a Statement of Special Educational Needs are required to have a review of the statement, their needs and progress. This is usually around the anniversary of the date your child was given their statement. This can change especially in Years 9, 10 and 11 to allow planning for transition. A meeting will happen at the end of Year 8 to inform parents of these changes.
A variety of professionals may be involved either personally or by report and invitation.

If Your Child Becomes ill Whilst at School
Newick House School has a policy of training as many staff in First Aid as possible. We aim to make sure that all staff are also kept fully up to date with any particular medical conditions, such as allergies or epilepsy, which need special care in our school.

Some of our pupils need regular medication and others have to have medication administered at school occasionally, e.g. antibiotics.
A Medical Form is sent home annually for parents to update and amend as necessary. It will record the way that medication can and should be administered. If circumstances change before the annual update however please let us know as soon as possible.

If your child is unwell we will contact parents and carers either through home school books or emails on the day. We will contact you by phone for more serious problems. Please make sure you have your contact details kept up to date to make this process is as straightforward as possible.

Transport Contacts
If you need help with your entitlement to help with transport you should contact:
Special Educational Needs Team
Children's Support, Ambassador House
Crane Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1TP
Telephone: 01243 752139
Fax: 01243 752161
If your child is of statutory school age (5 to 16 years) you should contact the Transport Co-ordination Group for help if you have a query regarding transport that has already been agreed.
Transport Co-ordination Group
The Grange, Tower Street, Chichester
West Sussex, PO19 1RH
Telephone: 01243 753530
Fax: 01243 777946
Email: school.transport@westsussex.gov.uk

Volunteering to Help in School or on Trips We have a range of parents and outside individuals as volunteers in the school. All volunteers, including Governors and student placements, are CRB checked prior to starting their roles in the school. If you would like to volunteer please make an appointment with Ian Hickey, Deputy Head - Inclusion & Community	Close

Our School Awards; International School Award, Sportsmark Gold, The F.A Charter Standard Schools, Healthy Schools, Investor in People, SEN Specialist Schools, Ofsted Outstanding 2009/2010