Home School Agreement

A positive relationship between home and school is an essential ingredient in the success of your child.

To ensure that a good working relationship is maintained, the staff at Bramcote College offer the following to Parents/Carers and children:

We will work hard to ensure that the staff at Bramcote College teach a wide and varied curriculum which meets the needs of both students and the qualifications they will be completing at the end of Key Stage 4 and 5.

Staff will be responsive to communications received from home, with the aim of ensuring a response to a phone call / email within two working days. At times this may not be possible due to staff teaching load. Emails received out of hours or on the weekends / in holidays may not be responded to within this time scale.

Bramcote College will keep parents and carers informed about students’ progress and wellbeing in school. This information will be shared via MCAS and at Parents’ evenings.

Students will be treated fairly and can expect to celebrate successes and also be held to account for poor behaviour, which may result in sanctions following the school behaviour policy.

Staff will encourage students to do the best they can and to raise their aspirations to success and progress towards the next stage in their lives.

In return there is an expectation that:

Staff come to school to do the best they can in your child’s interest and to ensure they are able to receive the best possible education; this may mean that they have to sanction students for inappropriate behaviour in or around school. Staff do so in the anticipation of support from home. We understand this may require some communication with parents / carers, however, we anticipate school expectations around uniform and behaviour (including the use of mobile phones) to be supported by all parents / carers.

We will always endeavour to meet with parents / carers who wish to meet face to face, however, this is by appointment only unless in exceptional safeguarding circumstances. It is highly unlikely that a member of staff or SLT would be available on demand, should a parent / carer arrive at school without an appointment. We will schedule appointments as soon as possible and prioritise urgent matters.

We expect staff to be treated with respect. This includes the language and tone that is used in face to face, email and telephone communications. Bramcote College will not tolerate the verbal abuse of staff, regardless of whether it is in person, over the phone, or in writing. Foul, abusive, or inappropriate language will not be tolerated and may result in a ban from the school site, or communication restrictions being introduced.

School is not a place for aggression, it is a place for learning. We will not tolerate any aggressive or threatening behaviour towards staff. We reserve the right to ban anyone from school property who behaves in a way that could interpreted as such.