Statutory Information (Info for Ofsted)
Please follow hyperlinks below to find information published on this website in compliance with: What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online.
- School contact details can be found on our Contact Us page.(show/hide details) (view page)
Your website should include the:
- name of your school or college
- postal address of your school or college
- telephone number of your school or college
- name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public
- name of the headteacher or principal
- name and address of the chair of the governing body (if you have one)
- name and contact details of your special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (SENCO) unless you’re a special academy
If you’re an academy or free school, you should publish details about your academy’s sponsor:
- if the school’s owner is a group or organisation, you should publish the address and telephone number of its office
- Admission arrangements can be found via our Admissions page.(show/hide details) (view page)
Admissions arrangements for all mainstream academy schools must comply with the School admissions code and the School admission appeals code.
Academy trusts must publish the admissions arrangements for their schools on their website and keep them there for the whole of the offer year (the school year in which offers for places are made).
- School Unfiorm Please see our Uniform Information(show/hide details) (view page)
The published uniform policy should be easy to understand and, where a school has a school uniform, should:
- clearly state whether an item is optional or required
- make clear if the item will only be worn at certain times of the year (for example, if it’s summer or winter uniform)
- make clear whether a generic item will be accepted or if a branded item is required
- make clear whether an item can only be purchased from a specific retailer or if it can be purchased more widely, including from second-hand retailers
- Ofsted reports can be found via our Ofsted Reports page where you can also find a link to previous reports on the Ofsted website.(show/hide details) (view page)
Academies and colleges, including 16 to 19 institutions, should do one of the following:
- publish a copy of your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report
- publish a link to the webpage where users can find your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report
- Exam and assessment results for Key stage 2 (KS2) can be found on our School Data page.(show/hide details) (view page)
You do not need to publish your key stage 2 results for the academic year 2021 to 2022 on your website, as the Secretary of State will not publish this data. This is because statutory assessments returned for the first time since 2019, without adaptations, after disruption caused by the pandemic.
You should continue to display your school’s most recent key stage 2 performance measures, as published by the Secretary of State, on your website. For most schools, these will be the performance measures published for the 2018 to 2019 academic year.
- Performance measures can be found via a link on our School Data/Results page.(show/hide details) (view page)
You must include a link to the school and college performance tables service.
- School Opening Hours and Times Can be found on our 'Daily Routine' page(show/hide details) (view page)
Schools should publish on their website their opening and closing times and the total time this amounts to in a typical week (for example 32.5 hours).
Schools should show the compulsory times they are open. This time runs from the official start of the school day (morning registration) to the official end of the compulsory school day. It includes breaks, but not optional before or after school activities.
- Curriculum details can be found on our Curriculum pages(show/hide details) (view page)
You must publish:
- the content of the curriculum your school follows in each academic year for every subject
- your approach to the curriculum
- the names of any phonics or reading schemes you are using in KS1
- how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following
- Remote Education Details of how we support Remote Education on our Remote Education page(show/hide details) (view page)
You should consider publishing information about your school’s remote education provision on your website.
- Behaviour policy details can be viewed or downloaded from our School Policies page.(show/hide details) (view page)
You should publish details of your school's behaviour policy, including your anti-bullying strategy in accordance with Part 3 of the Schedule to Education (Independent School standards) (England) Regulations 2014. This policy must also include the school's approach to the use of reasonable force to control or restrain pupils.
- Pupil premium and recovery premium information can be found on our Pupil Premium Spending and Impact page(show/hide details) (view page)
All schools that receive pupil premium funding must publish a pupil premium strategy statement each year by 31 December.
In the strategy statement, you must explain how your pupil premium and recovery premium is being spent and the outcomes that are being achieved for pupils. It’s important that parents and trustees understand this, and you should write it with them in mind.
You must use the DfE template to produce your statement. This can be found alongside completed examples and guidance for school leaders on the pupil premium guidance page.
The template has been designed to ensure that your statement reflects the requirements in the pupil premium conditions of grant. This includes a requirement for pupil premium and recovery premium to be spent in line with the department’s ‘menu of approaches’ from the start of the 2022 to 2023 academic year. The menu can be found in the document ‘Using pupil premium: guidance for school leaders’, on the pupil premium guidance page.
We recommend that you plan your pupil premium use over 3 years. If you do so, you are still required to update your statement each year to reflect your spending activity for that academic year and the impact of pupil premium in the previous academic year.
- PE and sport premium allocation information can be viewed or downloaded from our Sports Funding Impact page(show/hide details) (view page)
If your school receives PE and sport premium funding, you must publish:
- the amount of premium received
- a full breakdown of how it has been spent (or will be spent)
- what impact the school has seen on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment
- how the improvements will be sustainable in the future
You are also required to publish the percentage of pupils within your year 6 cohort who met the national curriculum requirement to:
- swim competently, confidently, and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively (for example front crawl, backstroke, and breaststroke)
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
You must publish all the information in this section by the end of the summer term, or 31 July at the latest. This is outlined in the conditions of grant document.
To help plan, monitor and report on the impact of your spending, partners in the physical education and school sport sector have developed a template. The template can be accessed through the Association for PE and Youth Sport Trust websites.
- Public Sector Equality Duty details can be viewed or downloaded from our School Policies page.(show/hide details) (view page)
The Equality Act 2010: advice for schools provides information as to how your school can demonstrate compliance with the public sector equality duty. For example, including details of how your school is:
- eliminating unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited under the Equality Act 2010
- advancing equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and people who do not
- fostering good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not
- consulting and involving those affected by inequality in the decisions your school or college takes to promote equality and eliminate discrimination - affected people could include parents, pupils, staff and members of the local community
As public bodies, academies and FE institutions must comply with the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017. This means you must publish:
- details of how your school complies with the public sector equality duty - you must update this every year
- your school’s equality objectives - you must update this at least once every 4 years
- Special educational needs and disability (SEND) can be viewed, printed or downloaded from our SEN Information page(show/hide details) (view page)
Academy schools (but not FE colleges and 16 to 19 academies) must publish an information report on your website about the implementation of your school’s policy for pupils with SEN. Schools should update the report at least annually.
You should update any changes occurring during the year as soon as possible. The report must comply with section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014, meaning that it must contain:
- the ‘SEN information’ specified in schedule 1 to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014. Statutory guidance on this is contained in paragraphs 6.79 to 6.82 of the special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years
- information on:
- the arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils
- the steps you have taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably than other pupils
- the facilities you provide to help disabled pupils to access the school
- the plan prepared under paragraph 3 of schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 (accessibility plan) for:
- increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school’s curriculum
- improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities or services provided or offered by the school
- improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled
- Complaints Policy information can be viewed or downloaded from our School Policies page.(show/hide details) (view page)
We recommend that all academies, free schools and colleges publish their complaints policy online.
If you’re an academy, free school, FE or sixth-form college, we recommend that you publish your whistleblowing policy online.
Academies and free schools must publish any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational needs about the support provided by the school.
- Annual Report, Accounts and Governance Statement details can be viewed or downloaded from The Good Shepherd page of this website.(show/hide details) (view page)
You should publish the following financial information about your school:
- audited annual report and accounts
- memorandum of association
- articles of association
- names of charity trustees and members
- funding agreement
- Academy trusts must publish accessible and up to date details of governance arrangements.
- Charging and remissions policy can be viewed, printed or downloaded from our School Policies page.(show/hide details) (view page)
Academies should publish their charging and remissions policies (this means when you cancel fees). The policies must include details of:
- the activities or cases where your school will charge pupils’ parents
- the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy
- Values and ethos of the school are articulated on Our Mission Statement page(show/hide details) (view page)
Academies and colleges should publish a statement of their ethos and values.
- Term dates can be found on our Term Dates page(show/hide details) (view page)
Term dates for the next two years.
- Privacy Notice can be found on our Privacy Policy page(show/hide details) (view page)
You must publish or otherwise make freely available your Privacy Notice for the use of pupil information.
- Governance Details and Register of Interests can be found on our Governance Details page.(show/hide details) (view page)
The Academies financial handbook explains what information you need to publish about your school and its governing body.
- Child Protection Policy and procedures can be found on our School Policies page(show/hide details) (view page)
The document must be published either on the school website or via other means (DfE statutory guidance 'Keeping Children Safe in Education 2018)