School Brochure

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#9999CC" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0d1105a1ezuabz.gif"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Lawn Upton CE Middle School, Littlemore, Oxford</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lawn Upton CE Middle School, Littlemore,"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CCCCE4" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040d2182ecggew.gif"> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction to Lawn Upton"><U>Introduction to Lawn Upton</U></A></div> <div> <B>School Brochure</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Around the school"><U>Around the school</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id94.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to find us"><U>How to find us</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Curriculum Guide"><U>Curriculum Guide</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Home School Partnership"><U>Home School Partnership</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Newsletters"><U>Newsletters</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Term dates"><U>Term dates</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SATs results"><U>SATs results</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id93.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="OFSTED"><U>OFSTED</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Teaching Staff"><U>Teaching Staff</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Childrens work"><U>Children's work</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Friends of Lawn Upton (FLU)"><U>Friends of Lawn Upton (FLU)</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B><U>School Brochure</U></B></div> <div> Lawn Upton Middle School is on the southern fringe of the City of Oxford, adjacent to the ring road and is part of the South Oxfordshire Partnership of schools consisting of one upper school, two middle schools and six first schools. The Headteacher's meet regularly to discuss policies and subject teachers also meet to ensure that programmes of study are comprehensive and that assessment is consistent. The school also benefits from being part of the Education Action Zone. Lawn Upton Middle School is the middle school serving the east of the partnership, taking pupils from six feeder first schools at the age of 9 and transferring them to upper school when they are 13 years old.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Admission and Transfer</U></div> <bR> <div> We aim to admit all pupils and welcome those who are differently abled. Our admission capacity is 145 with preference given to those who live within the catchment area. At the age of nine pupils transfer from their first schools to middle school. From the Autumn term prior to transfer, contact is made with parents and pupils and this forms the first stage of a transfer and induction programme. Year 4 children are invited to concerts and productions. In June and July our teachers visit first schools and the children spend a day in our school with their new teacher, so that they already have knowledge and experience of the school before they arrive in September. A similar transfer programme is repeated for pupils in Year 8 to prepare them for upper school.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Lunch -Time Arrangements</U></div> <bR> <div>  We are fortunate in having cooked school lunches, which are served in the dining room. Children go to lunch in tutor groups according to a pre-arranged rota. At the end of their meal they are expected to clear away their <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><IMG SRC="0a95b410.gif" border=0 width="91" height="65" ALT="Lunch" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="5" VSPACE="0"></FONT>plates and cutlery and leave the tables ready for the next group. The daily menu offers a choice of main dish courses including meat, fish and vegetarian courses as well as desserts. Meals are usually paid for on a daily basis. Free meals are provided for those children who are eligible. Children wishing to bring a packed lunch may do so and eat it in the school hall. Children are expected to stay on the premises during the lunchtime unless, with specific permission from their parents, they are given a pass to eat their midday meal at home.</div> <bR> <div> <U>The school aims</U></div> <bR> <div> <I>Learning</I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Facilitate the academic development of students through the National Curriculum. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ensure students are competent and confident in reading, writing, numeracy and discussion. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Develop well-adjusted young people, able to play a full role in society, both now and in the future. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ensure learning experiences promote spiritual, emotional, creative and social potential to the full.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Ethos</I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Create an ethos, which recognises the needs of individuals. </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Publicise all kinds of achievement, and create an atmosphere where high standards are valued and encouraged.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Parents and Community</I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Seek a partnership between home and school.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ensure students understand their local, national and global communities and ways of influencing them.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Develop links with individuals and organisations in the community.</div> <bR> <div> <I>Entitlement </I></div> <div> Everyone at Lawn Upton Middle School is entitled to:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">A clean, tidy and aesthetically pleasing place in which to work.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Feel safe and secure from insults, violence and danger of any kind.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Be treated with courtesy and respect and also to respect the needs and requests of others.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Have equality of opportunity regardless of race, religion, sex, ability or disability.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Know where things are and where to seek help.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Care</U></div> <bR> <div> On joining Lawn Upton Middle School pupils are placed in tutor groups, which take into account a range of abilities and friendships. The tutor is responsible for the co-ordinating of the academic and social development of the pupils in the group. If difficulties arise contact with the tutor in the first instance will often result in a satisfactory outcome. However on occasions it may be necessary to involve other colleagues and outside agencies.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Activities</U></div> <bR> <div> There are many clubs and extra-curricular activities at lunchtime. Other clubs operate after school. Mr Paul Herrington is the teacher responsible for the coordination of extra curricular activities.</div> <div> Recorders and Orchestra (for Concerts)</div> <div> Choirs; Ensembles </div> <div> Dance Workshops </div> <div> Rehearsals for the annual school production </div> <div> Art and Design Technology Club </div> <div> Theatre visits /Concert visits </div> <div> Mind Stretchers - all years </div> <div> Football </div> <div> Tennis </div> <div> Basketball etc.</div> <bR> <div> <U>Cause for Concern</U></div> <bR> <div> No matter how small a concern may be, please tell us about it. Minds can be put at rest, or action taken if necessary. In the first instance, please contact your child's tutor either through the homework diary or by telephone. This should resolve the problem, but if you think that further action may be needed, please contact the deputy head or the Headteacher.</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>