Statutory Information

This page provides links to key information as required by 'The School Information Regulations 2016'

Contact Details

To notify us if your child will be absent from school or to speak to the Head teacher or a member of staff, please contact us via the link above.

Name of Headteacher - Mrs Emma Roberts

Name of Chair of Governors - Mrs Alex O'Dwyer

Name of SENDCO - Miss Lisa Jenkin

Request for copies

If you would like a paper copy of the information from this website, please contact Mrs Norman or Mrs Teasdale in our main school office where all information will be given free of charge.

Admission Arrangements

Please click on the link below for our school admission policy

Dorset County Council administer this process. Website: www.dorsetforyou.com/schooladmissions Email: admissions@dorsetcc.gov.uk Phone: 01305 221060

Admission Guide 2020 - 2021

Admission Arrangements 2020-2021

Admission Arrangements 2021 - 2022

Exclusion Arrangements

Please click on the link above for guidance on our pupil exclusion arrangements. (DC model arrangements)

Latest Ofsted Report

2017 Ofsted Report

Link to Ofsted

Parent View

Latest SIAMS Report

2019 SIAMS Report

Ethos and Values of the School

Please click on the link above to find out more about our ethos and values

Governor Information

Please click on the link above for more information on our Governing Body

Behaviour policy

Please click on the link above for our Behaviour policy

Please click here for a copy of our anti-bullying policy

Charging and remissions policy

Please click on the link above for our charging and remissions policy

Keeping Children Safe in Education

Please click on the link above for the document 'Keeping Children Safe in Education' September 2019

Please click here for our Child protection Policy

For more information on safeguarding in our school please click the 'safeguarding' button on our home page.

Latest Key Stage 2 results

Percentage of pupils who achieved the expected standard in reading, writing and mathematics
Average progress in reading
Average progress in writing
Average progress in mathematics
Percentage of pupils who achieved a high level of achievement in reading, writing and mathematics
Average scaled score in reading
Average scaled score in mathematics

Information about the curriculum

Curriculum Guide for parents in Class 1

Curriculum Guide for parents in Class 2

Curriculum Guide for parents in Class 3

Curriculum Guide for parents in Class 4

We follow the National Curriculum that was published in 2014 and also link learning to children's interests to really engage them in our rich and varied curriculum. To find out more about the National Curriculum 2014 please click here.

See the 'Our Curriculum' tab on our homepage for more information on the following:

content of each subject in our curriculum;
information on progression in each subject,
our policies on each subject;
how each subject links to Early Years;
our development plan for each subject; and
more about our Curriculum Intent Statement

Our reading scheme and phonics programme

We have an exciting new reading scheme of 'real' books from the 'Badger Reading Scheme'. Thanks to money kindly donated by 'The Rebecca Harris Memorial Walk Fund' we have been able to buy more that 350 wonderful new books!

Our phonics scheme is called 'Letters and Sounds'. Please see the following link for more information:

Letters and Sounds Information for Parents

To view our equality policy please click here

Link to our SEND Page

SEND Local Offer for Dorset

Complaints Policy

Please click on the link above to see our complaints policy

Symondsbury Church of England VA Primary School

SymondsburyChurch of England VA Primary