Child Protection
If you are preparing to entrust your child to a school – whether day or boarding – you will most likely assume that your child will be safe and that all members of the school's staff will take the greatest care to ensure that this is always the case.
The chances are that your expectations will be fulfilled.
Unfortunately in a sad minority of cases that is not what happens. We take the view that parents should trust schools, but nonetheless be on their guard.
Please feel free to print the poster below to display in your school.
As with most reports there’s a code to decipher and a few questions to ask.
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'Schools in socially deprived areas do not have to have depressed outcomes.'
As Jasminder Grewal, Headteacher of North Primary School, explains:
Education,...
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Ms Clarissa Farr MA PGCE the High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School in west London believes:
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Ipod too far? Or, just maybe, parents should get in on the act
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This is a list of all the web-accessible spring and summer courses that we know of. We have not visited or assessed these courses in any way (let us know what you think of them if you...
Sit there for the present...
We sincerely hope teachers will give our children the gift of learning but in this season of goodwill, what can parents offer in return?
The...
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John Julius Norwich - Historian
Sir Timothy Clifford - Former Director of the National Galleries...
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