View our latest newsletter Term dates view them here Harlands Moodle Type of Event Show All Harlands PTA School trips Sharing Assembly Whole school August 2014 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Welcome to Harlands Primary School Harlands Primary School converted to an academy on 1 April 2014. The company name of the academy is Harlands Educational Trust, which is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with company number 8876009. The registered office is at Harlands Primary School, Penland Road, Haywards Heath, West Sussex, RH16 1PJ. Summer Holidays The school is now closed for the Summer Holidays. We look forward to welcoming the children back on Thursday, 4 September. Updated Wednesday, 23 July 2014 Harlands School Academy Conversion - April 2014 Staff and Governors are pleased to announce that Harlands School became a standalone academy, a state-funded independent school, from Tuesday 1st April. Academy status will give a range of freedoms and autonomy to do the very best for our children in educational innovation and raising standards. This move is a significant milestone for us supporting our vision of “striving for excellence, valuing everyone and our world.” Staff and Governors have spent many hours making preparations for our conversion to ensure that the transition will be smooth and seamless for all the school community. We are still a part of West Sussex and will continue to collaborate closely with neighbouring schools whilst networking with a wider community of learning communities. Academy freedoms and opportunities open to us in the future include: * Freedom to decide on how the curriculum should be delivered: the freedom to develop a creative and innovative teaching and learning environment that will provide the best opportunities for all our pupils, including the most able and those needing additional support. * Freedom to make decisions within the school about how best to spend the budget and procure services to support our school. Funding comes directly from the Department for Education. * Freedom to set pay and conditions for staff: Governing bodies of academies can be innovative in how they reward and incentivise staff. We are very much looking forward to maintaining and enhancing our provision in the future. Mrs Jane Goodlace Headteacher Headteacher's Welcome Harlands is an excellent school with high academic standards and a reputation for giving children opportunities to develop into confident, accomplished and considerate young people with a love of learning. We are very proud of the achievements of our children. Our school community works closely together to provide the very best for your child. We cannot hope to tell you about our school in a few pages on a website, or answer all your questions, but we hope that what you see here will inspire you to visit us and see for yourself Harlands’ wonderful, nurturing learning environment. Mrs J E Goodlace Navigation around our site Immediately below this section, there are direct links to the statutory documents that school's are required to publish under the Schools Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012. The four main sections of this website, which are accessed under the tabs above, are all aimed at slightly different audiences. The staff area mainly contains information relevant to school recruitment. The school life section contains a representative selection of pictures and reports of activities and trips that have taken place during the past year. The pupil section has lots of information specifically aimed at children, whilst the parents section will hopefully answer most of the questions that adults are likely to ask, and also includes information on the Harlands PTA (formerly known as the Friends of Harlands) and our School Governors. The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 Under these regulations, schools are required to publish certain information, and this section provides quick links to where that information may be obtained. 1 Contact information 2 Admissions arrangements We are always delighted to show prospective pupils and their parents around Harlands, and to answer any questions they may have. For many parents, a visit is a useful way to get to know a school and can be helpful in deciding their preferences. Now that we are an academy, admission arrangements have changed slightly. Admissions to the Reception classes will remain in the care of West Sussex (www.westsussex.gov.uk/admissions). However, admissions to Years 1-6 will be dealt with by Harlands directly from September 2014. Please call the School Office (01444 450782) to check availability. Our Admissions Policy 2015-2016 may be accessed here. 3 Latest Ofsted Report - February 2013 4 KS2 results 2013 5 School Performance Tables 6 Curriculum 7 Behaviour 8 Pupil Premium - The limited amount of Pupil Premium (£1,869 in FY 2012/13) that the school receives is being spent on support through our Learning Mentor and a Forest Schools project . However, the project has not yet been running long enough for the school to be able to assess its impact on educational attainment. During FY 2013/14 it has also been used to support 1:1 daily reading recovery. The school is also providing booster classes in literacy and numeracy for designated pupils in KS2. Primary Sports Premium - in FY 2013/14, Harland received £6,001 in additional sports funding. Approximately half of the funding was used to provide membership of Mid Sussex Active, which is the umbrella organisation for school sports in the Mid-Sussex area, providing access to competitions, training, sports coaching and networking. The remainder has supported the provision of extra staff time for sports curriculum development, in-house expertise for training both teachers and pupils, and to enable staff to accompany school teams to fixtures in school time. As a result, the children have benefitted as more PE lessons have been led by specialist trained staff, the number of fixtures teams have attended has increased, and the diversity of sports covered has also been enhanced. A fuller report on the impact of the Primary Sports Premium may be viewed here. 9 Special Educational Needs 10 Charging 11 Ethos and Values - see next section Our School Aims to .... * Encourage independence and a love of learning to enable children to reach their full potential; * Enable children to understand and respect themselves and others; * Provide a happy, safe and well-managed environment; * Forge an open partnership between home and school; * Encourage children to make a positive contribution to school life; * Prepare children for the challenges and opportunities awaiting them. The school rules are referred to as the School Code of Conduct with the one simple rule of "Respect". Rights and responsibilities are used to break down and explain how we do this. Please have a look at the first page of the Pupils section where the rights and responsiblities are explained, along with the rewards and sanctions used when something goes wrong. Safeguarding Statement Safeguarding and Promoting the welfare of children is defined as: • Protecting children from maltreatment • Preventing impairment of health or development • Ensuring children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care • Enabling children to have optimum life chances (Working Together to Safeguard Children 2013) At Harlands Primary School we aim “to provide our children with a safe and well managed environment in which they feel secure.” Implicit in this aim is the aspect of Child Protection. As professionals we care for the child not just as a learner, but also as an individual who has a family context and emotional, social and physical needs. To enable the child to develop as we would wish, we should respond on behalf of that child to any problems - learning difficulties, bullying, family problems or abuse - as effectively as possible. It is the responsibility of all staff to safeguard children and be aware of their responsibilities in identifying and reporting possible cases of abuse. Harlands PTA Previously known as the Friends of Harlands (FOH), the Harlands PTA organise fundraising and social events throughout the year. For more information, visit the Harlands PTA webpage http://www.harlandsprimaryschool.org/parents/friends-of-harlands/ You can help raise funds for the Harlands PTA when you do your online shopping, by visiting http://www.EasyFundraising.org.uk and choosing "Harlands PTA" as your charity. Further details on the PTA webpage. Downloading documents All of the documents that are available to download from this site require Adobe Acrobat Reader -if you do not already have this on your computer, you can get it free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Latest News School Life - School Council If you would like to find out about issues that concern the children, have a look at the School Council reports (on the School Life tab). Parking Please note that for events for parents held during the day time, there is NO PARKING available on the school site. Visitors need to be aware that there are parking restrictions around the immediate school vicinity between 9.00-10.00am and 1.00-2.00pm, so please allow sufficient time to park elsewhere and walk to the school. more news Site updated 23/07/2014 © 2007 Harlands Primary School Terms & Conditions Web Counter