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 on any of the items shown in this section, please contact the school and we will do our best to help.
- Accessibility Plan 2022-2023
- Accessibility Policy Mar 2023
- Anti-Bullying Policy Mar 2023
- Assessment Policy 2023
- Attendance Policy 2022/23
- Behaviour Policy Sep 2022
- Bereavement Policy Feb 2023
- CCTV Policy 2023
- Changing Policy Sep 2022
- Charging Policy (School Events) 2023
- Complaints Policy May 23
- DCC Recruitment and Selection Policy 2022-2024
- Health and Safety Policy for COVID Sep 21
- Coronavirus Outbreak Management Plan Sep 2021
- Educational Visits Policy Sep 2022
- Emotional Health and Well Being Policy Jan 2023
- Equality Information and Equality Objectives Feb 2023
- Equality Policy Statement Jan 2023
- Nettlesworth Primary School First Aid Policy April 2023
- Health and Safety Policy
- Homework Policy Jan 2023
- Intimate Care Policy 2023
- KCSIE Safeguarding School Policy September 2022
- Appendix 1 Summary of Multi Agency Meetings
- Appendix 2 Prevent Referral Flow Chart
- Additional Safeguarding Guidance – A response to COVID 19 update
- Additional Safeguarding Guidance – A response to COVID 19 jan 21 update
- Durham LA Confidential Reporting Code 2022
- Low level concerns policy Oct 2022
- Marking of children’s work 2023
- More Able, Gifted and Talented Policy July 2022
- Online Safety Policy Sep 2022
- Photographic Policy May 2023
- Pupil Premium Policy May 2023
- Prevent Policy Feb 2023
- Remote Education Provision Statement Jan 2023
- Remote Learning Policy Sep 2020
- Remote Learning Policy Updated Jan 2021
- Remote Learning Policy Reviewed Jan 2023
- Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Policy Jan 2023
- Staff Acceptable Use Policy July 2022
- Sun Safety Policy May 2023
- Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions Reviewed June 2022
- Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Policy Sep 2022
- Transition Policy November 2022
- Inclusion Policy 2023
- Packed Lunch Policy 2023
- Teaching and Learning Policy April 2023
- Microsoft Teams Live Sessions Risk Assessment Feb 2023
- Volunteer and Staff Induction Policy Sep 2022
- DCC Volunteering Policy Sep 2022
Equality Objectives
One of our Equality Objectives is to ensure that children arriving in our school are supported in order to make progress to enable them to access the curriculum to the best of their ability and to show examples of our work to promote equality, please select the link below for further details. Click on the link below to view our updated Equalities policy document.
GDPR
Here at Nettlesworth Primary School we take the privacy of our staff, governors, parents/guardians and pupils very seriously and work to the highest standard to keep your data safe. You may have already heard about the changes to data protection regulations, and the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which comes into force on the 25th May 2018.
We are committed to compliance with all relevant EU and Member State laws in respect of personal data, and the protection of the rights and freedoms of individuals whose information we collect and process in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Who is responsible for Personal Data?
As a school, we are a Data Controller under the new regulations and as such define how and why personal data is collected, stored, and used. We also utilise Data Processors – third parties that process the data we control on our behalf. As a Data Controller, we must comply with the new regulation as well as ensuring that all of our Data Processors are compliant.
Here at Nettlesworth Primary School we will achieve compliance by ensuring personal data is processed lawfully, transparently, and for a specific purpose. Once the purpose is fulfilled and the data is no longer required, it will be deleted, as stipulated within our Data Retention Policy.
We currently comply with existing legislation, the Data Protection Act 1998, and are very experienced at working within these regulations. It will however, be necessary to make some changes to policies and procedures in readiness for 25th May 2018.
How we comply with the GDPR
We are currently registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office as Data Processor, our registration number is Z9862276 We utilise a wide range of both physical and technical security measures in line with the recommendations provided by ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office). We utilise a wide range of both physical and technical security measures in line with the recommendations provided by ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office)
We implement additional security measures including advanced firewalls, enhanced virus protection across our entire school estate, regular data backup and multi-factor authentication to control access, automatic suspicious activity detection and logging etc. We provide regular data protection training to all teaching and support staff as well as our governing body.
We carry out due-diligence with all third party data processors. We will continue to share the specific details of personal data collected in our Privacy notices which have been created for our staff, governing body, parents and pupils. The revised notices are publicly available on our website. We have also completed a comprehensive data mapping audit of the data that we process and store. We have also reviewed our data breach incident response procedure.
If you would like to read more about GDPR, the following video on YouTube, provides an excellent visual story of a school’s GDPR journey.
How can you help us
Parents/guardians can assist us by ensuring that we have the most up to date address, telephone number, emergency contact details and email address on file.
Due to changes in privacy law, we can no longer include sensitive information such as medical conditions on any form pre-filled out. When filling out consent or data collection forms in future, please ensure you fill out any NEW AND EXISTING medical conditions or allergies etc as we will have to update our records based on what you state on the form. The same will apply to ethnicity, nationality etc. Medical conditions will include any allergies/food intolerance’s as well.
UNCRC Article 16
Every child has the right to privacy. The law should protect the child’s private, family and home life.
- Privacy Notice School Attendance Data Collection v2.0 Feb 22.pdf – Google Drive
- Data Retention Policy May 2023
- Privacy Notice for Pupils/Parents/Carers 2023
- Privacy Notice for Staff 2023
- Data Protection Policy May 2023
- GDPR Handout mar 2018
- Photographic Policy May 2023
- Photo Video Consent Form 2023
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