Brompton Academy Parent/Carer Directory

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Leadership and Form Tutor Awards. Mini Schools engage in healthy competitions against each other encouraging students to achieve as many points as possible. S Safeguarding: As an Academy we take safeguarding issues very seriously. If you have a safeguarding concern, please contact a member of the Safeguarding Team by emailing Childprotection@ universityofkentacademiestrust.org.uk. For further information, please visit our website www.bromptonacademy.org. uk/safeguarding-1 SENCO: The role of Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator is to ensure that students with learning difficulties and additional needs are identified, tracked and well supported to ensure that they make good progress in lessons and over time. The SENCo also enhances the related skills of the teachers to maximise the quality of teaching of their students with special educational needs. If you wish to make an appointment to see the named SENCo for your child’s year group, please contact the Academy via phone or email. Sickness: If your child is sick,

please notify the Attendance Team at the Academy by telephoning: 01634 852341, and by letter upon their return (see Absence). Soccer Elite Football Academy: The Soccer Elite Football Academy is available to school leavers looking to advance into the UKAT Sixth Form. Prospective candidates are required to play football to a good standard and have a passion to improve and build essential skills both within the game and academically. The programme offers many different A level and BTEC courses within the UKAT Sixth Form options booklet which students are able to choose from. Students will get the opportunity to train three times a week from FA qualified professional coaches experiencing life as a footballer. Students will also represent The Soccer Elite Football Academy in Kent Schools Football Competitions. Smoking (includes vapes, e-cigarettes and other nicotine related items): These are illegal on the Academy site and applies to all staff, students, parents/carers and visitors to the Academy (see No Smoking). Snow: Closures due to snow will be notified via the Academy’s website

and break time. All food purchased at the Refectory must be eaten in the designated spaces (see Free Academy Meals). Relationship, Sex and Health Education: All students receive information and advice regarding Relationship, Sex and Health Education within the Personal Professional Development programme (PPD). Reports: Parents/carers will receive progress reports approximately three times throughout the year for students in Years 7, 8, 9, 10 and 12. Students in Years 11 and 13 receive progress reports twice a year. Rewards: The Academy believes in celebrating and promoting positive achievements for all students. Students are awarded points that equate to them having ownership with what they want to spend their points on. Students can spend points at our school shop, online raffles or donation to charities. Students are awarded points in the following areas: academic attendance, progress and attainment, pastoral, community, Academy service and positive representation through participating in key roles such as student leaders, members of the Student Voice. Points are allocated by staff and recorded through our reward system (ePraise). We reward students every term with awards such as Subject Stars and Attendance,