Our School: Care, Discipline and Special Needs

Care and Discipline

We encourage children to take a pride in themselves, their school and their community. We believe that children feeling good about themselves is conducive to good learning. We therefore strive at all times to make a child feel that it is bad behaviour that we dislike, not the child.

• School rules are designed to allow children to work, learn and play co-operatively.
• Discipline is firm, fair and consistent. There is an agreed procedure which all teachers follow should a child ‘break a rule’.
• We do not condone bullying in any form and take strong measures to ensure that children at Dry Sandford feel safe.

We expect parental support to help resolve any situation where a child is not responding to school discipline. Parents are asked to sign a Home/School Agreement when their child starts school with us.

Special Needs

We feel that many children have ‘special’ needs in some way or at some time in their school life. The teachers make provision outside their normal planning to develop behavioural,
physical or learning skills. We are committed to enabling all children to reach their full potential.

Having close links with Cothill, local independent educational trust, we enjoy the full time services of one of Cothill’s qualified SpLD (Specific learning difficulties – dyslexia) teachers. She works closely with the school SENCO and helps numerous children at Dry Sandford on a one to one or small group basis. In addition to this she teaches our year 5/6 able mathematicians as a defined set.

We have full wheel chair access and appropriate toilet facilities.