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Cwmbach Nursery School
Dear Parent/ Guardian,
Please see timetable of events for the rest of the Summer Term. May i also take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and co-operation and wish you and you family the very best for the future.
V Meyrick
Date Events
28.6.12 - Transition visit to Infant school for N2 children. Further details to follow.
10.7.12 - Parent's progress Mettings a.m/p.m Appointment list to be put on Notice Board in Foyer. Please leave early and late appointments for those parents working.
17.7.12 - (P.M) Leaver's and Summer Concert 2p.m. May i remind you that for Health and Safety reasons, only 2 persons to attened per child.
19.7.12 - Puppet Show a.m, Party p.m, Children if they so wish are able to wear party clothes.
Final week- Weather permitting an in-school Olympics activity afternoon to be held. You will be notified when the children need to wear appropriate footwear and attire.

Spring Term 2012
Summer Term

Parents are involved in Fund Raising and often give a helping hand and support for various actitivies if needed.
We as a staff look forward to meeting you children. By working together we can benfit all the pupils in our care. I hope you have found this booklet helpful. if you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.
Mrs V Meyrick
(Acting Headteacher)E King

Safeguarding Children
Cwmbach Community Primary School has at its priority, the protection and wellbeing of all pupils in the school.
In our school the HeadTeacher has overall responsibility for child protection matters and acts as a source of advice and support to other school staff.
Our school also has a nominated child protection governor, who has to ensure that the school has a child protection policy in place, which is consistent with the AA Wales Child Protection Procedures (2002), that all staff in the school must follow where there are concerns or suspicions of child abuse.
If we receive information about a child, which suggest that he/she has been abused or at risk of being abused, we have a duty to refer these concerns to the Children's Services, or the police without delay. We have no discretion in this matter.
Our first concern as a school is you child's welfare and where we have general concerns, thses will be raised with you and we would want to work with you, to remedy the situtation. However, there may be concerns as listed above, where we have to talk to other agencies before we contact you. Should this be necessary, we want to reassure you that any concernswe have about your child will then be fully discussed with you in a way is consistent with you child's best interest.

Complaints Procedures
Charges
Safeguarding children
What does our school offer your child
Child Protection

As a School we are also part of the RCT Health Schools Schmeme which seeks to address specific of Health and Wellbeing in the County's scholls across the different key stages.
As a member of this scheme we will complete 3 actions each school year.
Our threeThese actions for the school year 2011/12
Further develop links with the Infant School to promote the wellbeing of staff and pupils in the light of the amalgamation.
Provide workshops for parents to enable them towill be more involveddecided in children's learning and development.
Develop the new school wiki to expand the school communication system for parents.
We continue to be part of the Eco School's Award. In order to achieve our Silver Award this school year, we will be involved in a joint project with our Partner Infant school to develop an area within the local community of Cwmbach.year.

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Equal opportunities
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We believe that all pupils are of equal worth and we place equal value on the abilities, talents and skills of every individual in our charge.
Foundation Phase and Key Stage Two, equally attractive and girls.

Security
At Cwmbach Nursery we feel it is vital to create a secure and safe enviorment for all children and adults in the shcool.
All adults working in the school are CRB checked. To prevent unauthorised or unknown visitors entering the school, please ring the bell at the front entrance door.
All children are well supervised during playtimes and lunchtimes and staff ensure that security gates are closed.
Disability Access Access/ Discrimination
Everyone is welcome in our school, Unfortunately due to physical lay out wheel chairs users would have to use the entrance to the rear of the building where the ramp is located.
Our school aims to be an inclusive school. We actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation, that can hinder or exclude individual pupils. or groups of pupils.
We will not treat a pupil witha disability less favourably than others because of the nature of his/ her disbility.
We will make all reasonable adjustments to ensure that a pupil with disabilities is not placed at a disadvantage.
We will do our best to anticipate the needs of the pupil with disbilities before he/ she joins.

Absences
It is important that your child attends school regularly and should only be take out of school if it is absolutely necessary.
All children's attendance is monitored and reported to the LA regularly. If a child's attendance is cause for concern, the HT will discuss this with you to see if there any issues we can help you with.
Parents are asked to inform the school on the first day of absence if their child is unable to attend school. On return to school a letter of explanation of any absence whether trhough illness or holiday is needed for school records.
It is important too, that children arrive and leave school on time.
We ask parents to note the times of the school day and ensure that their child is in school at those times.

Special Needs
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These children are monitored by the teaching staff/ Head teacher and then Individual Play Plans ( IPP'S) are written to suit each child's need, in the line with the Cod of Practice.
These will show the short term targets set for the child and the teaching strategies to be used. It will also indicate planned outcomes and the date for the plan to be reviewed. In most cases this review will take place once a term, to which the parents are invited to attend.
We inform parents of any outside intervention and we share the process of decision making, by providing clear inforamtion releating to the education of children with special needs.
Children's progress is monitored regularly and outside agencies may be consequently be called in to assess the child's needs.
Every effort is made to accommodate children with Special Needs, and very good relations are held with local Special Needs, and very good relations are held with local Health visitors, Schools Special Needs Dept at the Psychological service who can so often assist the school greatly in such matters.