Barrington Primary School

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Barrington Primary School is situated in a largely residential area, approximately midway between Bexleyheath and Welling train stations. The school is housed in a pleasant modern building on a single level, with attractive grounds which include woodland, kitchen garden, pond area, and quiet gardens.

Barrington is a one-form entry school with bright, airy, and well-resourced classrooms, a hall, library, a special needs resourced provision, and a neighboring pre-school facility. We are part of the Ignis Academy Trust with the Bedonwell Federation.

Each classroom is largely self-contained, with children’s cloakrooms and toilets close by. The hall is used for collective worship (assemblies), lunch, PE, dance, drama, and musical activities, and formal and informal meetings with parents.

At Barrington, we aim to create A caring and stimulating environment, where all children have the opportunity to succeed.

At Barrington, we:

• believe that everyone has a valued role within our school community
• support each other and embrace differences
• promote independence and self-discipline
• have high-expectations and celebrate achievements
• respect our environment and work to improve our community
• promote curiosity and a love of learning

To achieve these aims, we hope to create a friendly atmosphere, taking special care to establish a happy relationship with children from their first day at school. we encourage the children to have a caring and responsible attitude towards one another and a respect for property belonging to other individuals and the community. Children should feel part of the school, not just the class, meet teachers from other classes, and feel that they have an important contribution to make to the whole school.

Knowing children are naturally inquisitive, we aim to use this to guide the children to discover much for themselves, thus laying a foundation for independent learning.

Barrington is a happy, friendly school where children are encouraged to work and behave as independently as possible within a structured and disciplined environment. We have a positive approach to discipline by promoting and rewarding good behavior, whilst having clear guidelines on how to deal with poor behavior.

There is a set of school rules enshrined in our Code of Conduct which all pupils are aware of. The emphasis is on the positive, stressing how pupils should behave and what they should do, rather than being negative.

The governors and staff at Barrington Primary School take seriously our responsibility to promote the welfare and safeguarding of all the children entrusted to our care. Any initial concerns will be discussed with parents and carers. The Headteacher is the designated teacher for Child Protection issues and she will refer any serious concerns to Social Services.

We will always do our best to work in partnership with parents. We will liaise with Social Services and our Attendance Service in the best interests of the child.

Barrington has been recognized as a 'Healthy School', but achieving National Healthy School status is just the beginning as many other schools, we are using the Healthy Schools approach to bring about improvements in behavior and attendance, self-esteem and wellbeing, and physical health of the whole school community.

Within the school, pupils are actively encouraged to make informed choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school, we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make these choices safely. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to exercise these for example: through E-Safety and PSHCE lessons. Whether it be through choice of challenge, or how they record their work or participation in our numerous extra-curricular clubs and opportunities pupils are given the freedom to make choices.

British values are taught explicitly through Personal, Social, Health and Emotional (PSHE), and Religious Education (RE). We also teach British Values through planning and delivering a broad and balanced curriculum. The school takes opportunities to actively promote British Values through our daily assemblies and whole school systems and structures. We also actively promote the British Values by ensuring that our curriculum planning and delivery includes real opportunities for exploring them together and we challenge pupils, staff, or parents who express opinions contrary to British values.

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