The school is organised in three age groups:

Phase 1 (Early Years)

	Nursery
Reception	Wellington	Durnsford	Lucien

Phase 2

Year 1	1F	1H	1T
Year 2	2C	2MC	2R
Year 3	3A	3C	3M

Phase 3

Year 4	4S	4RE	4RO
Year 5	5B	5R	5W
Year 6	6CJ	6G	6S

 

Children are placed in mixed attainment classes according to their age. Within each class there may be further groupings according to the needs of the children and the work being undertaken.

Additionally, all the children are divided between four houses (Red, Green, Blue and Yellow) with brothers and sisters joining the same house.  The house system is used to maintain strong pastoral care across different year groups . 

Each term there are house days and events (charity fundraising, sports, music, picnic etc.) where the children work and interact as a house team.

The School Day 

Nursery

8:40 to 11:40 for Morning class (there is no afternoon nursery class crrently)

Reception
8:40 to 15:15

Years 1, 2 and 3
8.40 to to 15.20/25/30

Years 4, 5 and 6
8.40 to 15.30

All children have a 15-minute morning break and an hour for lunchtime.  Over the week, all children from Reception to Year 6 are in school for 32.5 hours or more.

Lunchtime

All the children take their lunchtime in school, either bringing a packed lunch in a named lunchbox or by having a hot cooked meal provided by the school caterers. School meals are paid for in advance through Feeding Hungry Minds, the electronic payment system for Merton schools. Details of the current charges are available from the school office staff.  

A copy of the current school menu can be downloaded HERE

Attendance and punctuality

It is important that children arrive on time for school as close to 8:40 as possible.  The school gates and doors open for 10 minutes at 8:40 with all children going straight to class.  The time from 8:40 is an important learning primer for the day ahead, with maths, spelling and grammar practice, completion of any outstanding work, talking to their teacher individually, and generally getting organised for the day ahead.

Children who arrive late feel less settled in the first lesson as well as disrupt other pupils’ learning.  Children will be marked in late if they are not in class at 8:50 for registration. It is also important that children are collected on time at the end of the school day.

Regular attendance at school is essential for pupils to achieve their full academic potential.  It is a parent’s legal responsibility to ensure their child attends school.  When a child is ill or absent, we ask parents to inform the school office by email or telephone on the day of absence, otherwise the absence is recorded as unauthorised on their school report. 

Requests for family holidays in term time will not be authorised.  In certain exceptional or compassionate circumstances, a leave of absence in term time may be approved and we ask parents to complete a 'Leave of Absence' form (available from the school office or from the Policies page of the website) in advance.  All leave of absence requests are authorised at the sole discretion of the Head of School.

Medical

If a child is ill, it is important they are kept at home as illness can spread very quickly in a school environment.  As a precaution, children should not return to the school for 48 hours after the last bout of vomiting or diarrhoea .  Contagious illnesses should be notified to the school once a diagnosis has been confirmed.

All office staff, teaching assistants and lunchtime supervisors have received First Aid training. Additionally, some teaching staff have had emergency first aid training.  If a child is ill or has an accident at school, we will contact you if we feel it is necessary.  We will always contact you if there is an emergency concerning your child. For this reason, it is important that you keep us up to date with daytime telephone contact numbers.

For legal reasons, staff members are unable to administer medicines.  If prescribed medication needs to be taken during the school day, you can either come into school to administer the medicines yourself, or sign a form in the school office giving explicit permission for staff to administer these with details of the medicines required.  Please note that staff cannot administer any unprescibed medication. Separate arrangements apply in the case of long-term medical treatment (i.e. asthma, allergies, etc).  We do have children at the school whose allergies are potentially life-threatening, and we therefore adhere to a Nut Free policy in school in order to minimise any threat to them.

The School Nurse is happy to discuss any medical issues with you.  She can be contacted through the School Office.

Behaviour at Wimbledon Park

School Rules

The following rules have been agreed by the whole school community:

• We respect and care for ourselves, each other and the school.
• We follow adult instructions.
• We are polite, kind and honest.

Creating a positive environment

Good behaviour flourishes in a safe, caring and supportive environment. This can be achieved through setting a positive example, by building trusting relationships with children, getting to know children individually, frequent praise and positive attention.

Reward systems

Each class operates a merit award system to recognize and reward individuals for their learning and achievement. Classes also operate reward systems for good group behaviour with suitable rewards earned at the end of the day or week (e.g. golden time).

A good example is the “You Can Do It” reward system in operation throughout Early Years where children receive tokens for behaviour that shows Kindness, Thinking, Persistence and Confidence.  When a child earns 10 tokens in one area they are awarded a certificate in an Early Years assembly.

When children work especially hard on a piece of work, their teacher may ask them to show this to the Headteacher for which they receive praise and a Headteacher’s Award sticker.

On Friday we hold an assembly for Years 1 to 6 to celebrate good work, award certificates to children across the school and announce the winning house to receive the House Cup.  The winning house is rewarded with use of the adventure playground. We invite parents of certificate winners to attend the assembly to share in this celebration.

Sanctions

We believe that every behaviour is a communication. It is important to consider why children might be behaving in a certain way. Behaviour that prevents learning or which impacts on others’ enjoyment of school will result in some disciplinary action; consequences do not need to be severe to be effective but will be consistently applied while taking into account the individual needs of each child. Consequences for unacceptable behaviour will be natural consequences, designed to repair any damage to relationships or property, rather than punishments that have no relationship to the behaviour. Sometimes this may be a reflection period during a lunchtime with a middle/senior leader or may involve a social story to support educating the child.

Disciplinary actions are organised in a hierarchy:

Stage 1

• Verbal warning
• Time out – short period of time separated from the rest of the class (but continuing with their class work), or in the playground

Stage 2

• Further reminder
• Held back after the end of class or playtime where the teacher or adult will counsel the child for 1-2 minutes about making better choices.
• Time out in another classroom (usually the Year Group Leader’s) to discuss behaviour

At Stage 2, our aim is to create more time for a child to reflect on their behaviour.

Stage 3

• Missing break or lunch (partial or several) alongside a member of the senior leadership team as a reflection period to discuss behaviour, complete work missed, complete or put right the consequences of the poor behaviour.
• Parents will generally be informed at this point

Stage 4

• If the child has had a period of reflection 3 times or more in a half term, parents are invited to discuss the behaviour issues with a member of the senior leadership team which may result in a daily behaviour record book for up to four weeks. The child will be set two or three simple responsible behaviour targets to achieve every lesson and break time.  The child will be closely monitored and given lots of positive support to re-establish responsible behaviour.  The class teacher, parents and Headteacher will review the behaviour record book daily.
  
  Every day, children start with a “clean slate” within the disciplinary hierarchy (other than children on an individualised behaviour plan or behaviour report). However, certain behaviour is reported immediately to the Headteacher or, in their absence, a member of the senior leadership team.  In these instances, the senior leader will deal directly with the child, involving parents as appropriate.  Examples of behaviour that would be immediately dealt with by the Headteacher include:
  • Persistent defiance and non-compliance
  • Bullying
  • Racist comments
  • Sexually abusive language
  • Swearing at an adult
  • Physical assault (e.g. spitting, punching, kicking)
  • Intentional damage to property
  • Stealing
     

If there is an instance when the suspension or exclusion of a pupil from school is appropriate, the school follows the statutory guidance, procedures and regulations.