Every local-authority-maintained school must publish specific information on its website to comply with The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and 2016 and other relevant legislation.
Your Primary School Website must include the following:
School Contact Details
- Your school’s name, your school’s postal address, your school’s telephone number, the name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public, the name and contact details of your special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (SENCO) unless you’re a special school. See our home page and Contact Us section.
Values and Ethos
Your website should include a statement of your school’s ethos and values. See Aims, Ethos and Vision section.
Admission Arrangements
- If the school’s governing body decides your admissions, you must publish your school’s admission arrangements each year and keep them up for the whole school year.You must explain:
- how you’ll consider applications for each relevant age group at your school
- what parents should do if they want to apply for their child to attend your school
- your arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply (if you are a selective school)
- your ‘over-subscription criteria’ (how you offer places if there are more applicants than places)
- See School Admissions and our School Policies section.
Ofsted Reports
- Information on where to access the school’s most recent Ofsted report and KS2 Results See our School Performance section.
Exam and Assessment Results
- Information on how to access the School Performance Tables on the DfE website.
- You must publish the following details from your school’s most recent key stage 2 results:
- average progress scores in reading, writing and maths
- average ‘scaled scores’ in reading and maths
- percentage of pupils who achieved the expected standard or above in reading, writing and maths
- percentage of pupils who achieved a high level of attainment in reading, writing and maths
- See our School Performance section.
Curriculum
The following information about the school curriculum:
- the content of your school curriculum in each academic year for every subject, including Religious Education even if it is taught as part of another subject or subjects, or is called something else
- the names of any phonics or reading schemes you’re using in key stage 1
- how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following.
- View our school curriculum section.
Pupil Premium
You must publish a strategy for the school’s use of the pupil premium.
For the current academic year, you must include:
- your school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount
- a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
- how you’ll spend the pupil premium to overcome those barriers and the reasons for that approach
- how you’ll measure the effect of the pupil premium
- the date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy
For the previous academic year, you must include:
- how you spent the pupil premium allocation
- the effect of the expenditure on eligible and other pupils
Pupil premium funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents understand the school system. As you won’t know allocations for the end of the academic year (April to July), you should report on the funding up to the end of the financial year and update it when you have all the figures. View our Premium Allocations section.
PE and sport premium for primary schools
If your school receives PE (physical education) and sport premium funding, you must publish:
- how much funding you received
- a full breakdown of how you’ve spent the funding or will spend the funding
- the effect of the premium on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment
- how you’ll make sure these improvements are sustainable
- how many pupils within their year 6 cohort can do each of the following:
- swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- use a range of strokes effectively
- perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Policies
- You should publish details of your school’s behaviour policy. The policy must comply with Section 89 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
You must publish your school’s charging and ‘remissions’ policies (this means when you cancel fees). The policies must include details of:
- the activities or cases where your school will charge pupils’ parents
- the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy.
School Complaints Procedure
Publish details of your school’s complaints procedure, which must comply with Section 29 of the Education Act 2002. Also publish any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) about the support the school provides.
Equality Objectives
Public bodies, including local-authority-maintained schools, are covered by the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011. This means you have to publish:
- details of how your school is complying with the public sector equality duty– you should update this every year
- your school’s equality objectives – you should update this at least once every 4 years
Details of these publishing obligations are set out in Equality Act 2010: advice for schools
Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Disability Information
You must publish an SEN information report on your school’s policy for pupils with SEN and should update it annually. You should update any changes occurring during the year as soon as possible.
The report must comply with:
- section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014, including:
- the arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils
- the steps you have taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably than other pupils
- the facilities you provide to help disabled pupils to access the school
- information as to the plan prepared by the governing body or proprietor under paragraph 3 of schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 (accessibility plan) for:
- increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school’s curriculum
- improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities and services provided or offered by the school
- improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled
- regulation 51 and schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 where appropriate
- section 6 of the Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years
Requests for paper copies
If a parent requests a paper copy of the information on your school’s website, you must provide this free of charge.