What parents can expect of The Excel Academy

• Ensure that your child is helped to achieve their full potential as a valued member of The Excel Academy community.
• Provide a balanced curriculum and meet the individual needs of your child.
• Ensure that your child has the opportunity to achieve high standards of work and mindset through building good relationships and developing a sense of responsibility.
• Care for your child’s safety and happiness
• Be open and welcoming at all times and offer opportunities for you to become involved in the daily life of The Excel Academy.
• Keep you informed about the general Excel Academy matters and about your child’s progress in particular, through letters home, newsletters and pupil planners.
• Set, mark and monitor homework and provide facilities for children to do homework at The Excel Academy.
• Let parents know about and concerns or problems that affect their child’s work, behaviour, attendance, punctuality or equipment.
• Arrange parents’ evening during which progress will be discussed and parental ‘information’ evenings to update parents regarding the education of their child.
• Provide a suitable learning environment dependent upon the demands of the particular curriculum area.

What The Excel Academy can expect from parents

• Show respect towards Academy staff at all times
• Ensure that my child goes to The Excel Academy on time, properly equipped and in the correct uniform.
• Make The Excel Academy aware of any concerns or problems that might affect my child’s work or behaviour.
• Support The Excel Academy policies and ‘Mindset for Learning Standards’
• Support my child in homework and other opportunities for home learning.
• Attend Parents’ Evenings and discussions about my child’s progress.
• Get to know about my child’s life at The Excel Academy.
• Read and sign my child’s planner each week.
• Encourage my child to take part in extra-curricular activities during and after lesson time.
• That holidays are not taken during the school term.
• To work alongside the Academy, in promoting and instilling, the Excel values with their child/children.

Parents/school together should:

• Tackle any special needs.
• Encourage the children to keep the ‘Mindset for Learning Standards’
• Support children’s learning to help them achieve their best.

Pupils should:

• Try their best to meet their targets.
• Always have pride in themselves and treat others with respect.
• Complete work to the best of their ability.
• Always wear the correct uniform to The Excel Academy.
• Always bring the correct equipment to The Excel Academy – a bag, calculator, pen, pencil, ruler, reading book and planner.
• Take care of and respect The Excel Academy site, property and equipment.
• Help to create a good learning environment in the classroom
• Obey the ‘Mindset for Learning Standards’