Core Values Behaviour

At St. Nicolas’, we are proud of our children’s excellent behaviour underpinned so firmly by our values-learning approach. We aim to make your child’s school life as full and as happy as possible, so our approach is highly positive, based on praise and celebration combined with simple choices and consequences. We involve the children in deciding the rules by which they live, we deal with every child as an individual and ensure every child is heard. As a small community, we can ensure that all children understand the rules and boundaries within school and that there is consistency of approach among all adults. We place high expectations on the children in their attitudes towards those around them, with responsibilities appropriate to their age and stage of development. We establish and build upon mutual respect, good manners, fairness and consideration of the needs of all members of our community.

We take a zero tolerance approach to bullying and in the past ten years have had no incidents at all.

We work closely with parents on matters of behaviour and ask for their support. If we have any concerns about a child, we contact parents immediately, and ask parents to do the same. The teaching and leadership staff always make time to discuss

Safeguarding/Child Protection

St. Nicolas’ CE Infant School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff, parents/ carers and volunteers to share this commitment. Our safeguarding statement forms part of this prospectus. All staff and volunteers are cleared in advance to work with children by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) including parent helpers Miss Pandis, Senior Teacher is the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) and Mrs Perry, Year 1 Teacher is the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL).

Equal Opportunities

We are committed to ensuring that all pupils, regardless of race, faith, age, dis/ability, gender, social and financial background, or other differences, have equal access to all areas of the curriculum and broader school life. We recognise that everyone is different and that these differences must be equally respected, and we challenge discrimination so that we actively demonstrate this policy in our practice. Our Accessibility Plan and Equalities policies are available to parents.