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General
Code of conduct
Students at Heathcote respect others, are responsible and look after our environment.
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Parent Guide: Helping your child to learn
Do you ask your child about what they have been doing at school? What did s/he enjoy? What did s/he learn today?
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Parent Guide: Helping your child with reading
Students must learn to read fluently with enjoyment and confidence if they are to make progress in their education, in their career and in life in general.
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Year 7 Support
Parent Guide: Starting in Year 7
At Heathcote we make every effort to ensure settling in is as easy as possible and the process starts as soon as a student is offered a place.
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Parent Guide: Organisation
As your child moves from a school where they will have spent most of their time in one room with one teacher, it can be quite a confusing time arriving at Secondary school. We at Heathcote realise this and will try to make the transition as smooth as possible.
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Parent Guide: Year 7 curriculum
We offer a broad and balanced curriculum to all our students, meeting and extending beyond the requirements of the National Curriculum.
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Parent Guide: Helpful information
Information aimed at making the first few days at Heathcote as easy as possible.
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Heathcote Policies
Parent Guide: Attendance and Punctuality
Good attendance and punctuality is very important if your child is to learn and achieve.
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Parent Guide: Bullying
Heathcote is a popular and oversubscribed school. We believe one reason for this is that it is a friendly and safe school. Every child matters!
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Parent Guide: Special educational needs
Heathcote School sets a high priority on supporting young people with Special Educational Needs.
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Parent Guide: Study support
Information on our study support programme, including extra help with homework, courses to stretch more able students, help with GCSE coursework and revision, educational visits, clubs and more.
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Parent Guide: Presentation of work
Students can achieve better results following these guidelines for keeping their work tidy, clear and well presented.
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Parent Guide: Heathcote's Specialist Status
September 2003 saw the school designated as a Specialist Science College, by the DfES.
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P.S.H.R.E.
Parent Guide: Collective worship
At Heathcote we recognise the need for our young people to develop morally and spiritually as well as academically and socially.
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Parent Guide: Drugs education
Drugs Education is part of the Personal and Social Education Curriculum to which students have an entitlement throughout their education.
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Parent Guide: Sex education
Section 46 of the Education (No 2) Act requires that the Local Education authority, the Governing Body and the Head Teacher of the School shall take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that sex education is given to all registered students in such a manner as to encourage those students to have due regard to moral considerations and the value of family life.
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