Policy

We believe that children learn best when parents, the school, and children work together in partnership.

Our Policies are spread out into three main sections

1. Home Learning Policy
2. Dress Code Policy
3. Attendance Policy

Home Learning Policy

Aims

We believe that children learn best when parents, the school and children work together in partnership.

• Are consistent in our approach when we give Home Learning, with its content and how it should be completed.
• Support children’s learning, by reinforcing skills learned in class and by encouraging independent research skills.
• Encourage children to develop personal organization skills.
• Take account of the needs of the individual child.
• Ensure parents and carers understand what is expected of them.
• Make Home Learning manageable, meaningful, and enjoyable for parents, teachers, and children

Dress Code Policy For Children

Introduction

It is our school policy that all children wear school uniforms when attending school and when participating in a school-organized event outside normal school hours. We provide a list of the items needed for the school dress code in our school brochure and reminders are given to parents and children about our dress code on a regular basis.

The Ghana Education Service (GES) believes that school uniform plays a valuable role in contributing to the ethos of a school and setting the appropriate tone. GES, therefore, strongly encourages schools to have a dress code as it can instill pride; support positive behavior and discipline; encourage and identify with and support, school ethos; ensure pupils of all races and backgrounds feel welcomed; protect children from social pressures to dress in a particular way, and nurture cohesion and promote good relations between different groups of pupils.

Aims and Objectives

Our policy on school dress is based on the notion that school uniforms:
1. promotes a sense of pride in the school;
2. engenders a sense of community and belonging towards the school;
3. is practical and smart;
4. identifies the children with the school;
5. prevents children from coming to school in fashionable clothes/footwear that could be
distracting in class or on the playground;
6. makes children feel equal to their peers in terms of appearance;
7. is regarded as suitable wear for school and good value for money by most parents;
8. is designed with health and safety in mind

Attendance Policy

Deacons Academy Foundation School of Excellence Primary is committed to providing an education of the highest quality for all its pupils and recognizes that this can only be achieved by supporting and promoting excellent school attendance for all. This is based on the belief that only by attending school regularly and punctually will children and young people be able to take full advantage of the educational opportunities available to them. High attainment depends on good attendance.

The whole school community – pupils, parents and carers, teaching and support staff, and school governors – has a responsibility for ensuring good school attendance and has important roles to play.

The purpose of the policy is to clarify everyone’s part in this. Ours is a successful school and your child plays their part in making it so. We aim for an environment
that enables and encourages all members of the community to achieve excellence. For children to gain the greatest benefit from their education it is vital that they attend school regularly and on time, every day on which the school is open unless the reason for the absence is unavoidable.

All staff (teaching and support) at our school have a key role to play in supporting and promoting excellent school attendance and will work to provide an environment in which all our pupils are eager to learn, feel valued as members of the school community, and look forward to coming to school every day. Staffs also have a responsibility to set a good example in matters relating to their own attendance
and punctuality.