PT ENGLAND SCHOOL POLICY 2005
NAG 5.25
VISITORS TO THE SCHOOL
INTRODUCTION:
Our school has many visitors, both of a professional nature and also many parents and community helpers. We wish to have a warm and welcoming atmosphere and offer all visitors manāki but also ensure the safety of children and minimise disruption to learning.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To provide a welcoming atmosphere for visitors and have an open school.
2. To ensure safety of staff, students and volunteers.
3. To minimise disruption to progammes of learning.
GUIDELINES:
1. Regular Programme Volunteers: We do not require regular volunteers who have been approved by the school management and who are attached to an approved programme of work, to have to sign in at the office each time they arrive. We would prefer them to come into the school via the office area and then proceed to their area of work and settle into their work as unobtrusively as possible.
2. Professional Visitors: As our school is a host site for groups of teachers engaging in professional development, we like these individuals to also sign in at the office. We expect them to be welcomed either at the school entrance or at the office and then to proceed in the care of the staff member working with them.
3. Sports Coaches & Community Volunteers: We expect these people to notify the Sports & Events Manager or the teacher they are working with, of their presence in the school. We expect these people to work in open, visible spaces.
4. Parents and Community Members visiting children: We expect these people to sign in at the office. If they are delivering food, we expect the food delivered to the office, not the classroom. If they are visiting the room to see what their children are learning, we support this wholeheartedly, but ask that they sign in first and make their presence in the classroom either helpful or unobtrusive. We are most happy for parents to have lunch with their children at school, but would like them to sign in at the office.
5. Parents & Community Members picking up and dropping off children: If picking up & dropping off is for the normal hours of school operation and therefore before or after school, we do not require notification that these people are on the school property. If, however the pick up or drop off are within the hours of instruction, children must be signed in or out at the office.
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