Your Child’s Opportunities and Achievements
The learning environment at Battledown will be free from prejudice and without discrimination. It will provide opportunities for children to seek new challenges and to practise and consolidate emerging skills. It will offer a wide range of experiences and a stimulating environment.
Achievements will be recorded daily, with the information collected on a 6 weekly basis and registered on each child's Learning Journal. The Learning Journal is available for you to see at any time and is a useful source of information for other people working with your child, such as the Educational Psychologist, the Speech and Language Therapist and the Physiotherapist.After four terms assessment, (approximately 6 months) you will receive written reports on your child's progress which you are invited to come and discuss with the team working with your child. Also present at the review meeting will be the Headteacher along with representatives from other settings your child attends and from the school you intend your child to move on to after Battledown. Decisions will be made at the review concerning the next step in the assessment and, if appropriate, plans may be made for your child to spend time in a pre-school setting or in a mainstream school. Consideration may also be given as to whether any Statutory Assessment of your child's needs should be requested of the Local Authority.
Please ask to see the school’s policy on Admission, Integration and Transfer for further details.
Throughout your child's assessment, opportunities for informal discussion about his progress are available as often as you would like, by prior arrangement with the Headteacher. Key staff will visit you and your child at home within the first 4 weeks to give you information on how she has settled in.
The 1988 Education Act requires that religious education should form part of the curriculum for all statutory school-age children. This will be in line with Christian tradition and according to the agreed syllabus drawn up by the local advisory committee (SACRE). This learning experience will include a regular act of worship involving the whole school to celebrate special days, events and leavers. You are welcome to join us on these special occasions.
You have the right to ask for your child to be withdrawn from collective worship, in which case suitable arrangements will be made for the care of your child.
Curriculum Statement