Longsight Community Primary

We will provide an outstanding education, which is respectful of the diverse ethnicity, religion, families, educational needs and abilities of all our children.

Our vision is that children are happy and engaged in their school. We will ensure that they know how to be healthy and are able to make good choices for themselves. We will support them to develop their own thoughts and express their feelings in a safe environment.

LCP will have a strong focus on language and communication and working with families to ensure children are confident communicators from an early age. We will celebrate and value all languages and recognise that communication and language is the foundation of children’s attainment.

Longsight Community Primary will be colocated with the existing outstanding Children’s Centre. This centre has provided services for the Longsight community for more than 10 years and together with LCP will provide services that support, care for and educate children from birth through to moving onto high school at 11 years old. This means you’ll see the same familiar faces from the first time you visit Longsight Children’s Centre to your child starting school and beyond.

The school promotes respect, honesty and good relationships, so that people can work together in a supportive atmosphere with the common purpose of helping everyone to learn, to be creative, to grow emotionally and physically, and to be happy. We have set expectations for all staff and pupils at Longsight Community Primary School.The school expects every member of the school community to behave in a considerate way towards others.

In our experience, children make greatest progress when they read with someone on a daily basis. By the time your child is in year 6, we recommend asking your child to read a chapter (either aloud or to themselves) and then explain to you what has happened in the story.Make sure they have had a good night’s sleep, are clean and tidy with hair brushed, wearing the correct uniform and have had breakfast. Also, please ensure they have their glasses if necessary, and all they need for the day including Book Bag, homework, reading record/message book. At the end of the day, check their book bag for letters and have a look at their message book.

We are already an Outstanding Children’s Centre, we will use our experience and knowledge to ensure the school is providing the highest standards of education for children. Our curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and so your children will learn the same subjects as children in other schools in the area. We are working with a team of specialists including head teachers, teachers, speech and language therapists, early years specialists and, most importantly, you, their parents, to design a curriculum that will ensure your children have the best chances in life to learn, achieve and grow.

Our mission is Together we can achieve the best for our children. Together means you, your children, your extended family, the community, teachers and volunteers. We strive for families to be involved in everything we do – from making decisions about what our school building will look like, to the colour of the uniform. We want parents and grandparents to feel part of their children’s education and shape the way their children learn. There will be special times each week where you can come and share ideas and see what your child is learning in the classroom and find out how you can help them learn at home.

LCP currently has classrooms for Reception, and Year One to Year Four children. The school will grow year on year until 2017 when all 210 pupils will attend LCP.LCP opened their brand new building in September 2014. The school is connected to the existing Longsight Children’s Centre on Farrer Road in Longsight and they share an entrance. These are exciting times for the community of Longsight and we hope that this close link with the Centre means that our parents are assured of high quality provision from birth right through to age 11.

The welfare and safety of children who attend our school is our first and paramount concern.We will promote the health, well-being and safety of our pupils in all we do. Your children have the right to protection, regardless of age, gender, race, culture or disability. They have a right to be safe in our school. The school understands the responsibilities set out under various education acts to work together in partnership with other agencies to help children to grow up in a healthy and safe environment.

All members of staff have a part to play in ensuring that your children are safe and that their well-being is supported. The overall responsibility for safeguarding issues is the Principal although this may be delegated to the Child Protection Lead on a day to day basis.

The Child Protection Lead will have responsibility for maintaining accurate records of all incidents and liaising with external agencies. They will also oversee the training programme for all staff and ensure that staff are kept up to date with all the relevant safeguarding policy matters.