Policies
Statutory Information
Here you can find our school level Statutory Information. Additional policies or information is available on request.
Please email us if the information you are looking for isn’t here: admin@hamptonbridgeschool.co.uk
Proprietorship
Hampton Bridge School is owned by Spaghetti Bridge Ltd, a provider of specialist education and care.
Spaghetti Bridge Ltd
71 – 75 Shelton Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9JQ
0203 946 3970
Hampton Bridge School have their own dedicated management team, under the leadership of the Headteacher. The management team are complimented by Spaghetti Bridge support functions covering, finance, IT, human resources and quality and compliance.
Oversight of the school is provided through the Governance Team.
Governance Team
The Hampton Bridge Governance Team comprises of Directors of the Spaghetti Bridge board and group support staff. We encourage and seek regular contributions from staff, students, parents and community stakeholders.
The governance team is an effective critical friend, it supports the school successfully and sets challenging targets for improvement. Governance team play a strong role in setting the school’s strategic direction and are highly effective in the challenge and support they provide.
We aim to provide an open culture of challenge and support within Spaghetti Bridge. This process encourages open communication and use of data to steer strategy. We aim for consistency and quality. We work closely with key experts in various areas to ensure compliance and challenge as we are always striving for improvement.
The core strategic functions are:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
- Holding the Headteacher and senior leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent
Chair of Governance Team – Stephen Bradshaw,
Tel: 01803 926555, or via stephen.bradshaw@spbridge.co.uk.
Complaints
Policies
If you require a policy that isn’t listed above, please contact us at admin@hamptonbridgeschool.co.uk
Hampton Bridge School is situated on the edge of Northampton Town center. It is a well resourced town with many local facilities such as parks, leisure centers, sporting stadiums and shops. However the immediate local area faces significant socio-economic challenges, including high levels of deprivation affecting education, employment, and health. In addition, vulnerability to domestic abuse, overcrowding, county lines, child exploitation, alcohol and substance misuse is a common safeguarding concern of the local community.
We are registered for 70 placements, with students traveling to school from within the town and via taxis from surrounding towns, and across multiple local authorities. Serving a wide range of local authorities provides a unique aspect to Hampton Bridge and as a result, staff knowledge of the different safeguarding thresholds and reporting mechanisms will be key.
Eliminating discrimination
The school is aware of its obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and complies with non-discrimination provisions.
Where relevant, our policies include reference to the importance of avoiding discrimination and other prohibited conduct.
Staff are regularly reminded of their responsibilities under the Equality Act, for example during meetings. Where this has been discussed during a meeting it is recorded in the meeting minutes.
New staff receive training on the Equality Act as part of their induction, and all staff receive refresher training every year.
Advancing Equality of Education
As set out in the DfE guidance on the Equality Act, the school aims to advance equality of opportunity by:
- Removing or minimising disadvantages suffered by people which are connected to a particular characteristic they have (e.g. students with disabilities, or gay students who are being subjected to homophobic bullying).
- Taking steps to meet the particular needs of people who have a particular characteristic (e.g. enabling Muslim students to pray at prescribed times).
- Encouraging people who have a particular characteristic to participate fully in any activities (e.g. encouraging all students to be involved in the full range of school societies).
Fostering Good Relationships
The school aims to foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not share it by:
- Promoting tolerance, friendship and understanding of a range of religions and cultures through different aspects of our curriculum. This includes teaching in RE, citizenship and personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education, but also activities in other curriculum areas. For example, as part of teaching and learning in English/reading, students will be introduced to literature from a range of cultures.
- Holding assemblies dealing with relevant issues. Students will be encouraged to take a lead in such assemblies, and we will also invite external speakers to contribute.
- Working with our local community. This includes inviting leaders of local faith groups to speak to students, and organising school trips and activities based around the local community.
- Encouraging and implementing initiatives to deal with tensions between different groups of students within the school. All students are encouraged to participate in the school’s activities. We also work with parents/carers to promote knowledge and understanding of different cultures.
- We have developed links with people and groups who have specialist knowledge about particular characteristics, which helps inform and develop our approach
Equality Considerations in Decision Making
The school ensures it has due regard to equality considerations whenever significant decisions are made.
The school always considers the impact of significant decisions on particular groups. For example, when a school trip or activity is being planned, the school considers whether the trip:
- Cuts across any religious holidays
- Is accessible to students with disabilities
- Has equivalent facilities for boys and girl
Equality and School Attendance
The school is aware that there are many diverse communities within the United Kingdom and that not all communities follow the same holiday calendar. Therefore, the school does not require attendance on established community holidays or traditional events if this conflicts with the school-year calendar.
Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring for equality is carried out through the school’s regular systems of ensuring quality teaching and learning, e.g. through data analysis, consultation, regular observations of lessons and other curricular activities, surveys of parent/carer and student views.
Incidents of bullying, discrimination, harassment or victimisation related to any area of equality are dealt with as outlined in our Relational Support Policy, Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy and Staff Code of Conduct policy
Incidents of discriminatory behaviour are recorded and racist incidents are reported to the local authority, as required in law.
At Hampton Bridge School we follow aspects of the National Curriculum and teach sex and relationships education as set out in our policy.
In teaching sex and relationship education, we have regard to guidance issued by the secretary of state as outlined in section 403 of the Education Act 1996.