Home School Agreement

The Home School Agreement explains the terms under which Hook Junior School, Parents and Pupils will engage.

Provide a safe, nurturing learning environment for your child to attend.
Care for your child’s safety and happiness.
Monitor your child’s punctuality and attendance in line with their achievement, behaviour and wellbeing.
Inform you when there are concerns about your child’s attendance and punctuality.

Work together in constructive partnership with parents and carers for the benefit of their child.
Set your child regular Home Learning tasks, including reading, times tables, spellings, maths and literacy work.
Keep you informed of your child’s progress, learning and well-being, through meetings, learning consultations, parents’ evenings and an annual written report.
Keep you informed about general school matters through regular communication.
Contact you as soon as possible if we are concerned about your child’s progress, behaviour, attendance or well-being.
Respond to you as soon as possible if you contact us.

Plan a meaningful, enjoyable curriculum that engages children, meets their different needs and motivates them to learn.
Encourage and motivate children to always do their best and enable them to achieve their best in all areas of learning.
Provide a range of extra-curricular activities designed to enrich your child’s school experience.
Enable your child to understand that success and achievement can come with effort.

Have high expectations for work and behaviour, fostering respectful relationships and helping to develop a sense of rights and responsibilities.
Implement positive behaviour management strategies and develop a policy that supports this.
Develop children socially, morally, spiritually and culturally within the school values and British Values.

Make sure my child arrives at school on time, correctly dressed in school uniform and ready for the day ahead.
Fully support the school Attendance Policy. Avoid taking holidays or days out during the school term. Seek authority from the Headteacher for any absences.
Contact the school each day of my child’s absence.
Make arrangements for my child’s safe journey to and from school and ensure that they are collected on time at the end of the day.

Support my child to complete their Home Learning Activities - maths, literacy and spelling and regularly listening to reading, ensuring they are all completed on time.
Ensure that my child reads every night and that their reading record is completed, signed and returned to school.
Ensure that the school is informed immediately of any change to contact details.
Attend learning consultations and discussions about my child’s progress, achievement and social development.
Reply to any school correspondence.
Ensure that no negative, personal or adverse comments about children, staff or the school are posted on any social networks or websites, including Facebook.
Be respectful and considerate towards all members of the school and the local community.

Speak to school staff about any concerns or circumstances that might affect my child’s work, attitude or behaviour.
Help my child to be healthy in mind and body.
Help my child to understand that success and achievement can come with effort.

Support my child’s education at Hook Junior School under its values and policies by encouraging high standards, a positive attitude and good behaviour.

Bring everything I need to school on the day it is required.
Look after any books or other school property that I borrow.
Complete my home learning – spelling, times tables, maths and literacy, on time and return it completed to school.
Read daily at home and record what I have done in my reading record.
Tell an adult if something is making me sad or angry.
Tell a teacher or someone at home if I find my work difficult.

Be a good ambassador for the school by obeying the school rules both in school, during extra-curricular activities and while on off-site activities: