Key Information

Pupil Premium

Publicly-funded schools in England get extra funding from the government to help them improve the attainment of their disadvantaged pupils.

Evidence shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds:

Generally face extra challenges in reaching their potential at school
Often do not perform as well as their peers

The pupil premium grant is designed to allow schools to help disadvantaged pupils by improving their progress and the exam results they achieve.

Pupil Premium Info

PE/Sports Premium

Primary PE & Sports Premium Overview

Physical activity has numerous benefits for children and young people’s physical health, as well as their mental wellbeing (increasing self-esteem and emotional wellbeing and lowering anxiety and depression), and children who are physically active are happier, more resilient and more trusting of their peers. Ensuring that pupils have access to sufficient daily activity can also have wider benefits for pupils and schools, improving behaviour as well as enhancing academic achievement.

The school sport and activity action plan sets out the government’s commitment to ensuring that children and young people have access to at least 60 minutes of sport and physical activity per day. It recommends 30 minutes of this is delivered during the school day (in line with the Chief Medical Officers guidelines which recommend an average of at least 60 minutes per day across the week).

The PE and sport premium can help primary schools to achieve this commitment, providing primary schools with £320 million of government funding to make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, physical activity and sport offered through their core budgets. It is allocated directly to schools, so they have the flexibility to use it in the way that works best for their pupils.

John Donne Primary School aim to engage all pupils in regular physical activity, for example by:

providing targeted activities or support to involve and encourage the least active children
encouraging active play during break times and lunchtimes
establishing, extending or funding attendance of school sports clubs and activities and holiday clubs, or broadening the variety offered
adopting an active mile initiative
raising attainment in primary school swimming to meet requirements of the national curriculum before the end of key stage 2 - every child should leave primary school able to swim

Sports premium Info

COVID 19 Catch Up Premium

The COVID-19 catch-up funding must be used to close any attainment gaps caused by school closures and restrictions due to the pandemic.

COVID-19 CATCH-UP STRATEGY

Safeguarding

John Donne Primary School are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We have a number of policies and procedures in place that contribute to our safeguarding commitment, including our Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy which can be viewed in the Policies section.

Sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a child's welfare. We will ensure that our concerns about our pupils are discussed with their family first unless we have reason to believe that such a move would be contrary to the child's welfare.

Our Designated Safeguarding and Child Protection Lead is Jo Rooney, and our Deputies are David James, Cindy McDonald and Jessica Susman. Our Local Committee Safeguarding Lead is Chloe McCulloch.

Looked After Children: David James

Response to the Prevent Duty

Prevent is one of the four elements of ‘CONTEST’ the government's counter-terrorism strategy. It aims to ‘prevent’ people becoming involved with extremist views.

The Prevent Strategy:

responds to the ideological challenge we face from terrorism and aspects of extremism, and the threat we face from those who promote these views;
provides practical help to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism and ensure they are given appropriate advice and support;
works with a wide range of sectors where there are risks of radicalisation that we need to deal with.

The school takes the Prevent duty very seriously and works to support all our families. Further information can be found across a range of our policies and in particular in the Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.

Please click here to view a Parent’s Pamphlet on the Prevent Strategy.

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)

If you think that a child or young person under the age of 18 years old, who lives in the borough, is being abused or neglected, contact the MASH Team using the contact details below. Outside of office hours and at weekends and public holidays contact the 'out of hours contact' service on 020 7525 5000. If you are seriously concerned about a child's immediate safety, dial 999.

Not all concerns raised about a child will automatically lead to a child protection investigation. Less serious concerns may lead to a more general assessment of need and the provision of services or the offer of advice and information.

Telephone: 020 7525 1921
Email: mash@southwark.gov.uk
Southwark Out of Hours Duty Service (EDT) for emergencies only: 020 7525 1921 (between 5.00pm and 8.30am Monday to Sunday)

Southwark LADO (overall responsibility for safeguarding in the borough)

Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO): Tel: 020 7525 0689 or 07943 076608

Email: eva.simcock@southwark.gov.uk or qau.safeguarding@southwark.gov.uk

Parent/Carer Helpers

If you plan to help in school you need to contact school to apply for a DBS certificate or renew your certificate when the three year period has expired. Please contact the school office for further information.

Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy