Statutory Information

Safeguarding and Child Protection

Wymondley JMI School is committed to safeguarding the children in their care. Staff will not tolerate any form of abuse towards themselves or a child. Should you have any concerns relating to the safety of a child or the safe conduct of any member of staff please speak to the school's Designated Senior Person.

Mrs Chadwick - Designated Senior Leader for Child Protection
Mrs Holmes and Miss Smythe - Deputy Designated Senior Leaders for Child Protection

If your concern relates to the Headteacher please contact the Chair of Governors: Meghan Brown or Tom Watts.

General Data Protection Regulation

Data Protection - Subject Access Requests

The school office may be closed outside of term time. Any requests made during holidays may not be completed by our staff until the school reopens. This includes Subject Access Requests (SAR) under GDPR and Freedom of Information Requests. Due to the complexities of replying to such requests during the school holidays, we may need up to 3 months, although we will endeavour to complete it more quickly, and usually within the standard 30 days once we are satisfied with your identity and the school is open. If we need longer than this during term time, we will inform you. See https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/time-limits-for-responding-to-data-protection-rights-requests/ for clarification of this information. The FOI Officer is Ally Chadwick (Headteacher).

Admissions

For parents/carers of prospective Reception pupils, we hold open mornings in the Autumn term. If you would like to book a place on a tour, please contact the school office on 01438 354583.

For in-year admissions, please contact the school to arrange a private tour.

All our school admissions are managed by Hertfordshire County Council and applications can be made on their website at www.hertsdirect.org/admissions.

Photographs and Display Work at Wymondley JMI School

Occasionally, we take photographs of the children at our school. We may use these images in our online school prospectus or in other printed publications that we produce, in displays, as well as on our website, blogs, Google Classroom, Tapestry and social media feeds. We may also make video or webcam recordings for school-to-school conferences, monitoring or other educational use.

We also send images to the news media, or our school may be visited by the media who will take their own photographs or film footage (for example, of a visiting dignitary or other high profile event). Pupils will often appear in these images. The news media may use the images in printed publications (including local or national newspapers), on televised news programmes or on their website. They then store them in their archives. They may also syndicate the photos to other media for possible use, either in printed publications, on websites, or both. When we submit photographs and information to the media, we have no control over when, where, if or how they will be used.

To comply with GDPR, we need your permission before we can photograph or make any recordings of your child and to display work which includes their name.

Conditions of use:

This permission is valid for the period of time your child attends this school. In some instances images may remain after children have left our school. Please write to the school if you wish to withdraw consent at any time.
The images we take will be of activities that show the school and children in a positive light.
Embarrassing or distressing images will not be used. The images will not be associated with negative or sensitive issues.
We may use group or class photographs or footage with very general labels e.g. ‘science lesson’. Examples may include audio/video/images of your child which will be used to provide the best education possible as well as to share celebrations, eg. festive events.
We will only use images of pupils who are suitably dressed.
We will make every effort to ensure that we do not allow images to be taken of any children for whom we do not have permission or who are ‘at risk’ or disallowed from having their photographs taken for legal or social reasons.We will take all reasonable measures to ensure the images are used solely for the purposes for which they are intended. However we cannot guarantee this and take no responsibility for the way images are used by other websites or publishers or for any consequences arising from publication.

Please note that websites can be viewed throughout the world and not just in the United Kingdom where UK law applies. In giving your consent you understand that images may be used in printed and electronic form.

To give your consent, please tick the appropriate box on the pupil personal details form.

Wymondley School Policies

School policies cover every aspect of school life. Below are some of our most important policies for your reference. If you want to know our policy on something that is not listed, please ask the school office.