Safeguarding

Key Information

We regularly publish key information on this page including our most important policies, guidance and documents required by the Government. For information about admissions to the school or the Children's Centre please visit our admissions pages.

If you cannot find the information you need, please feel free to contact the school office and the staff team will be happy to help.

Miss Allan: Lead person for safeguarding

It's everyone's responsibility to work together to keep children safe from harm. Please find our safeguarding policy below and all the details you need to get in touch if you have a concern about any matter.

Our school is part of the City and Hackney Safeguarding Children's Partnership. More information can be found: http://www.chscp.org.uk/

Inspection Reports and evaluation

We were inspected in by SIAMS in 2019 and OFSTED in 2013. Our latest SIAMS inspection graded the school Excellent. The Ofsted inspection graded the overall effective of the school outstanding. Our Childcare was inspected in 2019 and overall effectiveness was graded good.

You may find it useful to visit the Ofsted website. You may also find Parent View useful, it gives you the chance to tell Ofsted what you think about our school!

Uniform

If you think you may benefit from support with purchasing uniform, please contact the office and we will be able to discuss options with you.

Our uniform supplier is Khalsa Schoolwear on Bethnal Green Road. You can order all items online: http://www.khalsaschoolwear.co.uk/

Curriculum Including Teaching and Learning Policies

Important Policies

âAll of our policies are available to parents, carers and the public. They are not all listed here. If you can't find what you are looking for, please contact the school office.

Early Years

You will find further information about Early Years, including our charging and remissions, on the Admissions page of our website.

Privacy Notices

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Health Safety and Welfare

We follow Public Health England advice on infections and diseases. This gives you a helpful outline of how many days it might be advisable to keep your child away from school if they have an infection.

If your child is unwell you must contact the school office on the morning of their first day of absence. We will keep in touch with you after this initial contact. We can administer prescribed and non-prescribed medicine in school.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Our Special Educational Needs Coordinator is Ms Khan (Deputy Head) supported by Miss Allan (Head). Please contact the office to get in touch.

The City of London Local Offer

Attainment and Progress

More detailed information about school performance is included on the Compare School Performance website.

Pupil Premium and Sports Premium

Equality and Diversity

How we are complying with our equality duties?

Your Child's Report

We publish information about your child's learning and progress each term and update our guide to understanding your report regularly.

Guidance and Advice

We publish information about our curriculum each term. For a detailed overview of our curriculum in each class, including our arrangements for teaching phonics and reading in Key Stage 1, visit our curriculum pages.

If you can't find what you are looking for on our website, contact office@thealdgateschool.org

Other External Sites

All schools are financially benchmarked. The Aldgate School's dedicated financial benchmarking page can be found here.

You can find out more about education in the City of London and the Corporation's involvement in the wider education of young Londoner's here.

The Department for Education website details statutory and non-statutory information about schools.

Minutes from Meetings

Most of our minutes from governing body are available on our website.

Governing Body Minutes

Deanery Partners

We are part of the Tower Hamlets Deanery Partnership. Our vision, as London Diocese Board for Schools in Tower Hamlets and the City, is to educate and support our children to be;

Confident
Compassionate
Creative

We are a diverse group of church schools, serving our local Inner City Community. As a Deanery, we have worked in partnership for a number of years, sharing information and best practise.