School Handbook 2023-2024

All eligible two, three and four year olds are entitled to 1140 hours (pro rata) of funded Early Learning and Childcare (ELC). 1140 hours ELC is intended to support child

development, help close the attainment gap through the provision of high
quality services, and support parents to work, train or study. ELC can be accessed through local authority
settings, partner provider nurseries and childminders. Parents can also choose to have a blended
placement using more than one setting and/or childminder.

Further
ELC Information for parents is available via: https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/registering-your-child-nursery#documents

Please
see https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/early-years or call our Early Years
Helpline on 01369 708503 for further information and for details of the nearest
establishment/s offering early learning and childcare.

Information
about snack and meal provision within ELC settings can be found later in this
document.

Visits of
Prospective Parents/Carers

If you
wish to visit the school prior to your child joining, please contact the school
office.

Once
your child has been allocated a place you will be invited along to meet the
staff and children, to find out more about the curriculum and to share
information about your child.

Please
see www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/education-and-learning/placing-your-child-school for further information.

School Uniform

The Education Committee recommended at its meeting of 21
August 1997 that – ‘the adoption of a distinctive dress code chosen to enhance
the ethos of the school should be encouraged in all schools’. Given that
there is substantial parental and public approval of uniform, schools in Argyll
and Bute are free to encourage the wearing of school uniform.

In Clachan
Primary School, the suggested uniform is as follows:

Polo shirt and school sweatshirt

PE KIT:

T-shirt,
shorts/tracksuit bottoms and outdoor gym shoes in a bag with pupil’s name.

Indoor shoes are
required and stored in the school cloakroom.

Please note that school uniform is not compulsory and it is
not policy to
insist on pupils wearing uniform or having specialist items of clothing in
order to engage in all of the activities of the curriculum. As such, pupils will not be deprived of any
educational benefit as a result of not wearing uniform.

However, there are forms of dress which are unacceptable in
school, such as items of clothing which:

· potentially
encourage faction (such as football colours);

· could
cause offence (such as anti-religious symbolism or political slogans);

· could
cause health and safety difficulties (such as loose fitting clothing, dangling
earrings);

· are made
from a flammable material, for example shell suits in practical classes;

· could
cause damage to flooring;

· carry
advertising, particularly for alcohol or tobacco; and

· could be
used to inflict damage on other pupils or be used by others to do so.

All clothing brought to school should be labelled or marked
in some way, as it is difficult for children to distinguish their own clothing
from others.

School Roll and Stages

School Staff

School Day

Early Learning and ChildcareProvision

Visits ofProspective Parents/Carers

School Uniform

Early Learning and Childcare
Provision

Visits of
Prospective Parents/Carers