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The Government requires that all schools and academies establish an agreement between the school/academy and homes. A copy of this agreement is available to all students and parents upon request.

Millbrook Academy is obliged to:

• Provide high quality education appropriate to all students.
• Provide equal opportunities for all children.
• Ensure the health and safety of all students.
• Recognise and celebrate achievement for all.
• Contact parents if there is a problem with attendance or punctuality.
• Involve parents if there are concerns about work or behaviour.
• Supply parents with information through grade reviews, reports, consultation evenings and newsletters.
• Set, mark and monitor homework.
• Ensure that students comply with the academy's expectations and policies.
• Encourage students to try hard and be the best they can be.

Parents/carers are obliged to:

• Support and take an interest in their child's education.
• Encourage their child to aim for quality in all they do.
• Congratulate their child on good achievements.
• Ensure that their child attends the academy every day and on time.
• Inform the academy immediately if their child is absent or late.
• Read and sign the student planner on a weekly basis.
• Ensure that their child has the correct uniform and necessary equipment.
• Communicate concerns and satisfactions to the academy regularly; via planner or directly.
• Support academy policies.
• Attend parents consultation evenings.
• Support their child with regard to homework and extra-curricular activities.

Students are obliged to:

• Attend academy regularly, punctually and properly prepared.
• Comply with all academy procedures, including wearing the correct academy uniform.
• Respect the academy's environment and property, and the property of others.
• Behave in an orderly, considerate and purposeful way at all times.
• Comply with the 12 student and 12 classroom expectations at all times.
• Use the student planner to record achievements, improve the quality of my work, set and review targets, record parental communications and homework/coursework.
• Complete all classwork, homework and coursework to the best of my ability.
• Contribute fully to life of the academy - in class and extra, especially college life.
• Value the academy's citizenship programme including tutorial and college activities.
• Share any concerns I might have with my parents/carers and/or my tutor.
• Act in an 'enterprising' way by finding solutions to problems.
• Use all facilities responsibly.

School Discipline - Excerpt from Government publication

As a parent, you should support your academy's behaviour policy. An academy with well behaved students is usually one where your child will feel safe and learn well. If your child breaks the rules, some of the sanctions they can expect are:

• A reprimand
• A letter to parents/carers
• Removal from their class or group
• Loss of break or lunchtime privileges
• Detention

What if your child gets a detention?

The academy has the legal right to give your child a detention - either after academy hours, during lunch time, or on a Saturday or a academy holiday. If they fail to attend without a reasonable excuse, the Principal may give a more severe punishment.

You are entitled to 24 hours' written notice of a detention, so you can make arrangements for transport or childcare. The notice should tell you why the detention was given and how long the child will have to stay at the academy.

If you object to the detention, you may explain your situation to your child's academy. They may reconsider giving the detention in certain circumstances, such as:

• The detention falls on an important religious day for your family.
• You are concerned about the length and safety of the route between the academy and home.
• You cannot reasonably make alternative arrangements for collecting your child from the academy.

More information is available from www.direct.gov.uk.