Explain Why Schools Have Policies And Procedures
Schools have policies and procedures because if people have guidelines to follow it makes for a more consistent work environment Staff will know what is expected from them and there will be less confusion. Schools will have a basis of who to inform and what to do for different s circumstances.
Some examples of statutory policies within education legislation are
Sex education and Special educational needs
Some examples of statutory policies from other legislation are Data protection and Health and safety.
No statutory policies can be placed into the environments such as homework policies.
Question: Question 12
Answer: Schools will have policies and procedures relating to various things
Staff policies can be things like pay policy which show …show more content…
the way roles are allocated pay levels. Performance policy could be a way to praise and encourage staff and point out areas of weakness to improve performances and show interest in staff.
Pupil welfare policies could be things like safeguarding. This is a set of instructions to follow if there is belief that a child will need to be helped as being mistreated.
Anti bullying policies may in place so that staff children and parents will know how the school deals with these types of situations in a fair way
Teaching and learning will need policies for giving guidelines of what is expected from pupils they are teaching.
For younger children there may be a need to draw up procedures for how “intimate care― is implemented.
Equality, diversity and inclusion will have procedures on how to support children with talent or SEN. They will cover how the school enforces inclusion of various areas such as cultural diversity and disabled pupils.
Parental engagement will have policies on things like how parents and school will work together for their childrenâ€TMs future and procedures of what happens if children do not attend school
Question: Question 13
Answer: To help how school policies and procedures are developed and communicated staff will give feedback to say if they have any issues with the information. Amendments can be ongoing if changes happen. Once they are agreed the school will issue all relevant people and update places of information access so all correct and equal. This could be internet based or paper based. Also meetings could be held to verbally inform information. Senior members of staff need to check information but they can obtain help from local educational authority or internet for other policies to get examples and make it easier for them to
create
Question: Question 14
Answer: Nationally the Department for Education is responsible for education and draws up the education policy. It has the responsibility to develop the National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage. They set up school league tables and fund research into educational projects. Locally there will be a local education authority and will give advice on where to obtain staff training and what type of development is needed. They can signpost schools to other establishments and groups to expand on their networking. They will be a help to integrate education in the local area. They may have specialist teachers contracted to them so the schools in the area can find them and use them. They will be expected to ensure the local schools obtain information that will affect them when laws are updated or changed.
Question: Question 15
Answer: The schools have a role in implementing the national policies so that children young people and families are rewarded with good working practises in their schools. They will need to refer to the national policies to ensure that how they set up and run their schools are a reflection of the standard the national policies set. If all schools do this across the country the education choices and decisions should be a similar standard regardless of where you live.
There can be national policies that can be incorporated into schools to support the childrenâ€TMs involvement in learning about the society they live in such as healthy eating. The children can be encouraged to eat healthy by the schools becoming involved in the healthy eating campaign which will reach parents national in various ways one of them being via schools.
Question: Question 16
Answer: Health Service will have people such as speech and language therapists. They may impact on the work of schools as without having these areas addressed and helped learning will be difficult and stressful.
Mental health services will help the children such as CAMHS so that they can become more settled in school and it will be less stressful for them.
Social services will give support to the parents, children and schools by liaising between them and ensuring the childrenâ€TMs needs are met.
Third sector services will sometimes be in touch with schools as if things like adequate housing are not in place for children then the childâ€TMs life may not be stable enough for them to establish the best mind set to progress in education.
Community services such as swimming and football events will offer the children a chance to explore in a safe manor the outside world and what it has to offer.
Some examples of statutory policies within education legislation are
Sex education and Special educational needs
Some examples of statutory policies from other legislation are Data protection and Health and safety.
No statutory policies can be placed into the environments such as homework policies.
Question: Question 12
Answer: Schools will have policies and procedures relating to various things
Staff policies can be things like pay policy which show …show more content…
the way roles are allocated pay levels. Performance policy could be a way to praise and encourage staff and point out areas of weakness to improve performances and show interest in staff.
Pupil welfare policies could be things like safeguarding. This is a set of instructions to follow if there is belief that a child will need to be helped as being mistreated.
Anti bullying policies may in place so that staff children and parents will know how the school deals with these types of situations in a fair way
Teaching and learning will need policies for giving guidelines of what is expected from pupils they are teaching.
For younger children there may be a need to draw up procedures for how “intimate care― is implemented.
Equality, diversity and inclusion will have procedures on how to support children with talent or SEN. They will cover how the school enforces inclusion of various areas such as cultural diversity and disabled pupils.
Parental engagement will have policies on things like how parents and school will work together for their childrenâ€TMs future and procedures of what happens if children do not attend school
Question: Question 13
Answer: To help how school policies and procedures are developed and communicated staff will give feedback to say if they have any issues with the information. Amendments can be ongoing if changes happen. Once they are agreed the school will issue all relevant people and update places of information access so all correct and equal. This could be internet based or paper based. Also meetings could be held to verbally inform information. Senior members of staff need to check information but they can obtain help from local educational authority or internet for other policies to get examples and make it easier for them to
create
Question: Question 14
Answer: Nationally the Department for Education is responsible for education and draws up the education policy. It has the responsibility to develop the National Curriculum and Early Years Foundation Stage. They set up school league tables and fund research into educational projects. Locally there will be a local education authority and will give advice on where to obtain staff training and what type of development is needed. They can signpost schools to other establishments and groups to expand on their networking. They will be a help to integrate education in the local area. They may have specialist teachers contracted to them so the schools in the area can find them and use them. They will be expected to ensure the local schools obtain information that will affect them when laws are updated or changed.
Question: Question 15
Answer: The schools have a role in implementing the national policies so that children young people and families are rewarded with good working practises in their schools. They will need to refer to the national policies to ensure that how they set up and run their schools are a reflection of the standard the national policies set. If all schools do this across the country the education choices and decisions should be a similar standard regardless of where you live.
There can be national policies that can be incorporated into schools to support the childrenâ€TMs involvement in learning about the society they live in such as healthy eating. The children can be encouraged to eat healthy by the schools becoming involved in the healthy eating campaign which will reach parents national in various ways one of them being via schools.
Question: Question 16
Answer: Health Service will have people such as speech and language therapists. They may impact on the work of schools as without having these areas addressed and helped learning will be difficult and stressful.
Mental health services will help the children such as CAMHS so that they can become more settled in school and it will be less stressful for them.
Social services will give support to the parents, children and schools by liaising between them and ensuring the childrenâ€TMs needs are met.
Third sector services will sometimes be in touch with schools as if things like adequate housing are not in place for children then the childâ€TMs life may not be stable enough for them to establish the best mind set to progress in education.
Community services such as swimming and football events will offer the children a chance to explore in a safe manor the outside world and what it has to offer.