INTRODUCTION TO PARENTS AND PROSPECTIVE PARENTS
The school prospectus is updated annually and provides information to children, parents and prospective parents.
Visits from prospective parents are most welcome and should be arranged through the school administrator. Parents will be given information about the school and have an opportunity to discuss any issues pertaining to their child.
GENERAL INFORMATION RELATING TO THE SCHOOL
Rice Lane Junior School is a community Junior School in Walton, Liverpool.
As of June 2010 there were 295 children on the school roll.
Year group | Number of children |
Year 3 | 71 |
Year 4 | 65 |
Year 5 | 86 |
Year 6 | 73 |
The school is currently organised into 12 single age, mixed ability classes, three in each year group. Children are usually organised into three mixed ability classes per year group. The year groups are identified according to National Curriculum labelling i.e.
Year 3 (7 years+)
Year 4 (8 years+)
Year 5 (9 years+)
Year 6 (10 years+)
Each class is attached to a class teacher/s for a period of one year. Some specialist teaching is provided by the Authority’s peripatetic music.
Children may be set - at present they are set for maths in all year groups and in Literacy and Maths in year 6.
In September 2010 there will be12 fulltime teaching staff including the Headteacher and 6 part time teachers. The school employs 11 classroom assistants who provide classroom support across the year groups in the mornings. 2 SEN Support Assistants are employed to support the Individual Education Plans (IEPs) of children on the Special Educational Needs (SEN) code of Practice.
THE SCHOOL’S AIMS AND VALUES
Our right to learn, everybody’s responsibility to make it happen.
Our School’s aims and values are built upon the five areas of the Every Child Matters Agenda
The right to be healthy
To enjoy access to good quality PE lessons for a minimum of two hours per week and to be offered participation in early morning coaching sessions and after school clubs
o know how to prepare healthy meals, be given nutritious school dinners, encouragement to bring healthy packed lunches to school, and be rewarded for eating healthily.
In PHSE lessons and through the science curriculum, to receive relationships and sex education in all year groups and to receive drugs awareness education and learn about the effects of smoking and alcohol
The right to be safe
To be a happy harmonious community where good relationships and behaviour are underpinned by mutual respect and kindness.
To take part in anti bullying lessons and be taught about e safety.
To be taught how to stay safe both in school and out of school
To treat all fairly and listen to others sympathetically and attentively.
To be an inclusive school and to establish practice which ensures, in all aspects of our work, that every pupil is given equality of opportunity.
The right to enjoy and achieve:
To receive teaching of the highest quality resulting in high quality learning.
To treat pupils as individuals and to differentiate teaching accordingly whilst taking account of their individual and special needs.
To ensure that all pupils benefit from a rich, broad, balanced and creative curriculum presented in an interesting, exciting and imaginative manner with many opportunities for first-hand experience, practical work, investigation and learning through activity.
To enliven and enrich the curriculum by visits, visitors, and extensive use of the environment.
To enable each child to respond positively as a learner to all aspects of English, Maths, ICT and science and performs at a level of competency in all areas with confidence and enthusiasm.
To promote and achieve high standards.
To make connections between subjects and to teach and apply basic skills across the curriculum.
To set and demonstrate high expectations and high standards.
To build a welcoming, friendly, bright and lively, happy place where children feel secure and where they enjoy growing up
Make a positive contribution
To nurture children’s spiritual, moral and social development and help them grow in self-confidence and self-esteem.
To value each child for their individual contributions and help them develop a positive attitude towards everyone in the life of the school and community.
To help each child develop an understanding of citizenship, sustainability and their role in both the local and global community and to develop understanding and mutual respect of other religions, races, cultures, gender, people with disabilities and associated points of view.
To contribute to the life and work of the school with energy and enthusiasm
To promote success and reward progress and achievement
To further develop partnerships with parents and the wider community.
The right to achieve economic well being
To ensure that each child develops a lively, enquiring mind and life skills so that he/she will have the ability to experiment, investigate, take risks, challenge, discriminate and make informed choices whilst at school and in their later life.
To ensure that each child develops the skills and attitudes necessary to work both independently and collaboratively.
To ensure that each child will be given opportunities to improve their financial capabilities through discrete maths lessons and cross curricular opportunities.
ADMISSION POLICY
Children transferring from Rice Lane Infant School at the beginning of the academic year are guaranteed a place in Rice Lane Junior School. Parents will be contacted in the summer term prior to moving to the Junior School to confirm they wish to take the place offered to their child.
As we follow the LEA’s Admission Policy and as Primary Schools in Liverpool do not have catchment areas, parents whose child does not attend Rice Lane Infant School and wish to apply for a place at Rice Lane Junior School should approach the Headteacher, Mrs M Rowlands. We encourage parents to visit the school before making a final decision on whether to apply for a place. To do this they should contact the school to make the necessary arrangements.
However, a request for a place does not guarantee admission if the school is oversubscribed. Where requests for places exceed the admission number, children are allocated places in the following priority order:
- Children with exceptional medical/social needs (as determined by Section 17 (10) of the Children Act 1989 and children with Statements of Special Educational Needs, where the preferred school is named in the Statement. Including ‘Looked After Children’ i.e. children in the care of the Local Authority.
- Children who have a brother or sister in the Junior School when they are due to start school.
- Children whose permanent home address is closest to the school. The distance will be measured over the shortest suitable walking route between the home and the main gate of the school. Please note that parents may be requested to provide proof of their permanent address.
If you are not satisfied with the offer of the school place made for your child, you can discuss the situation with officers in Client Support. If still not satisfied, you may wish to appeal to an independent appeal panel. Details of the appeals procedure are available from Client Support of the Local Authority’s Children’s Services.