Haslemere Primary School

Our school is dedicated to providing the best possible education for every pupil in a stimulating and safe environment. We follow a literacy-rich curriculum, centred around a text, which is linked to our termly themes. We aim to link the Humanities, Sciences and Arts subjects within these themes, following the recommendations of the new National Curriculum.To make learning exciting and engaging, we include lots of skills-based learning within our lessons.

We are committed to all aspects of education and development, encouraging families to work in partnership with us to realise our aim, of successfully helping each child to achieve their full potential.At Haslemere, we are dedicated to providing the best possible education for every pupil in a safe and stimulating environment. We aim to encourage our children to become reflective, independent learners.

Staff at Haslemere have very high expectations of the children and hope that they will leave us as confident, polite and independent young people, ready to meet the challenges of further education and the future. We encourage our young people to aim high and to ‘reach for the stars’, so that they develop a sense of aspiration and ambition for the future.

We encourage families to work in partnership with us to achieve our aim, so that our children achieve their full academic potential and develop a life-long love of learning. We have an open-door approach that welcomes pop-in meetings, appointments and emails for communications. We also support parents through regular surveys, workshops, coffee mornings and social events organised by the Friends of Haslemere Parent Teacher Association.

We regularly celebrate our children’s achievements, to instil a sense of pride and appreciation for their dedication and endeavour. We actively promote and teach children how to stay safe and live a healthy and active lifestyle, through our excellent PSHCE curriculum. We believe that children should look beyond the walls of our school and consider issues that affect the wider world. To this end, every class ends the week on a Friday afternoon with WoW Time, (Windows on the World), where children might discuss events in the news, hold debates on issues that children raise themselves, discuss how to stay safe and healthy and learn life skills, such as making sensible choices, resisting peer pressure, valuing others’ opinions and appreciating each other’s’ differences.Alongside this, we follow a monthly Values Curriculum, which encourages children to consider principles that embrace all belief systems, such as honesty, co-operation and responsibility. This enables our children to develop a principled approach to life, which will in turn support their future choices and achievements.

At Haslemere we take e-safety very seriously, at the start of each term children take part in e-safety sessions and they are reminded about e-safety at school and home and to be respectful of equipment they use each time they undertake an ICT lesson.

Children are taught how to email each other through our Learning Platform-they can only email their peers in their class group. Teachers are able to monitor conversations to ensure that children are being respectful to each other and the learning platform has a “Whistle” that can be clicked to let the class teacher, head teacher and Website Administrator know if they see something they do not like on the learning platform.Children can also use the blog on the learning platform taking part in group discussions; again this is monitored by the class teacher. Homework can be set and that can be uploaded to the learning platform for the teacher to mark.

Haslemere Primary School is part of the London Grid for Learning and we have our internet and our filtering of the internet managed by them. This is a robust filtering system that protects our children in school. Children are encouraged to report to their class teacher if they see something on the internet that offends them and the school will look into the “offending item”, if it is something that has slipped through the filtering net we will request it to be blocked and normally it is blocked within 30 minutes, or quicker.

We strongly recommend to parents and carers that parental controls are set up on all computers, tablets, mobile phones and especially your broadband to keep your children safe. Give your child their own login details with the parental controls set, on some devices you can even set how long they can use the device for. Below are a list of different devices and how to set the parental controls, this is from your broadband to your handheld game device and everything in between.

At Haslemere we have a wonderfully diverse community, where all major world faiths are represented and all cultures valued.We have adopted 22 moral values which provide a common understanding in school, and a framework from which to work in creating a cohesive atmosphere. The values run on a 2 year cycle.The British Values are also taught alongside the values curriculum.

The values are broken down into a particular “Value of the Month” and provide a focus for assemblies, WOW lessons and day to day school life.Our school is a harmonious place where children can thrive and work, and develop their full potential.