Park View Community Primary School

We have high expectations at Park View and our committed staff team works hard to ensure that all children are encouraged and supported in developing positive learning behaviour, making good educational progress and acquiring the social skills needed to become successful citizens who access further education or employment and lead productive and fulfilling lives.

We believe that a strong partnership between home and school is the best foundation for a positive and successful education. Our parents and carers share this view too and we work together to make each child's experience as enjoyable and successful as possible.

At Park View we follow Manchester City Council's admissions policies and guidelines. If you live outside Manchester, apply through your local council; even if you want a place in a Manchester school.For a place in the nursery class at Park View, please contact the school directly with your child’s name, address and date of birth. For the children of Park View to become positive, responsible, caring and successful citizens well equipped to overcome the challenges of an ever changing world.To enable the children to fulfil our vision by providing inspirational education in a nurturing environment where all can achieve their goals and show genuine respect for themselves and for others.

Keeping children safe is a high priority at Park View. Our safeguarding policies and procedures are shaped by legislation and government guidelines with the DfE Keeping Children Safe in Education publication as the key document.Parents will be aware that there are some risks to a child's safety when using the internet. School monitors the content of what children access via the internet in school. In school children do not have access to contacting others using school equipment. As social media is accessible in most modern homes, it is important that parents and carers are vigilant and monitor what children access on the internet. Ensuring that children do not make contact with strangers on line is key to keeping your children safe. Click on the links below for further helpful information.

We want the children of Park View to be immersed in an exciting and engaging curriculum that is relevant to their lives and at the same time ensuring that they have a wider understanding of the world, of modern Britain and what it means to be a good citizen in our rapidly changing global society. Using the National Curriculum as the basis for our curriculum content, reading, writing and maths is at the centre of our curriculum. The basic skills are taught on a daily basis and applied to and used in the wider curriculum of science, computing, design technology, humanities, PE and the arts. We consider that spiritual, moral, social and cultural education and awareness and understanding of British Values to be extremely important and therefore ensure that these aspects are embedded across the curriculum as a whole.

Reading is an essential life skill and we strongly believe that the children of Park View should leave us as competent and fluent readers. Reading is a key that unlocks the world of the imagination, giving children the skill to step into the wonderful world of stories or to immerse themselves into a topic or theme which interests them. Reading is not just about books, it is also about accessing a wide range of text based material from our ever changing digital world.

Reading forms the core of homework at Park View and children take books home regularly to read with parents and carers. We encourage family members to hear children reading every day at home and not just to read their school book.Comics, magazines and other reading materials can be used. Family trips to the local library can help a child to develop a love of reading too.

Our job is to help your child achieve the very best they can at school. This page is to inform you of the types of support available for your child at Park View Community School. It will help you understand who can help and how this support can be accessed.All pupils in school receive quality first teaching. This means that a range of teaching and learning styles are used and that appropriate learning objectives are set for all children with a curriculum matched to their needs.

All year groups in Foundation Stage and Key Stage One are supported by a teaching assistant. Teaching assistant support in Key Stage Two is targeted at particular groups of children and planned by the Inclusion Lead. Throughout the school, teaching assistant support is targeted at particular groups of children and planned by the Inclusion Lead.

The Governing Body is made up of parents, staff representatives and other co-opted members who have experience of education or have other skills that enable them to ask relevant questions and hold the school to account. The role of the governors is to challenge staff to ensure that each child receives an excellent education.

There are three Governing Body meetings each term. One meeting is a full Governing Body meeting when all governors meet.The other two are committee meetings. The Resources Committee examines and agrees the school's spending plan and financial procedures. The Enjoy and Achieve Committee reviews all aspects of teaching and learning, pupil progress and achievement, pupil well-being, attendance and behaviour. The Chair of each of these committees feeds back essential information and key actions to the full Governing Body so that any decisions can be agreed and ratified by all governors.