Preston Primary Policies
Our school is part of the Lingfield Education Trust family. As such, our policies can be either a school level policy, or a Trust policy which ensures consistency across our family of schools. Below, are the key policies which we work to as a school – however schools and Trusts have hundreds of policies in place in order to run well – too many to include here.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with regard to any specific request or query, including a request for a paper copy of a policy, or to find out about a policy which is not included here, or on our Trust site – we will be glad to assist.
Please click here to view all Lingfield Education Trust’s policies – by which we work to at Preston. The Trust policies include many of the statutory policies for our school, including our:
- Acceptable use of Technology
- Admissions Policy (an overview of our Trust procedures). Please also see our school admissions page, here
- Anti Bullying Statement
- Behaviour Principles Statement
- Charging and Remissions – a common approach for all of our Trust schools
- Code of Conduct for Employees
- Data Protection, Subject Access Request and related GDPR Policies
- Equality & Diversity Policy and Trust Level Objectives
- Exclusions Policy
- Freedom of Information
- Heath and Safety Statement
- Child on Child Abuse – a Trust wide approach to this safeguarding issue
- Privacy Notice and Pupil Record Retention Schedule Policies
- Risk Management
- Safeguarding Policy
- SEND
- Staff and Volunteer Behaviour
- Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions
- Whistleblowing – how to report a concern to the Trust
Please click here to view all Lingfield Education Trust financial information, including the statutory annual accounts and financial information.
Safeguarding:
Mr Sanderson is the school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead, with Mrs Richardson and Mrs King as the Deputy Designated Safeguarding Leads. If you have any concerns or questions, please contact them. Should you be concerned about a member of staff, and do not feel able to approach us – the Trust’s Whistleblowing Policy is on the Trust policy page, simply follow the link above.
If you are worried about a child and you wish to contact Stockton ‘Customer Contact Centre’ to report a concern, or ask for advice, their number is 01429 284284 – this is a Hartlepool dialing code .
Should school have concerns around safeguarding and e-safety, staff have dedicated safeguarding procedures. We may contact parents and carers, or Stockton Safeguarding Hub in light of information shared.
Complaints:
Whilst our complaints procedures are agreed at Trust level, and are consistent across all off our schools, the policy is rooted in school level contact and support at the earliest stages of a complaint or concern. The aim of this policy is to ensure that a concern or complaint by a parent/carer or member of the public is managed sympathetically, efficiently, at the appropriate level and resolved as soon as possible. Most concerns, where a parent/carer seeks intervention, reconsideration or some other action to be taken, can be resolved informally. As such, parents/carers should raise the concern initially with the Class Teacher, Assistant Headteacher or Executive Headteacher in the first instance as a ‘stage 1’ complaint. Should the complaint not be resolved, then the complaint progresses to ‘stage 2’, with greater involvement of the Trust. The full complaints policy and processes can be found on our Trust policy page, here.
