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Term Dates 2025-2026For the full term dates of the 2025-2026 academic year, please visit theLongfield Academy website: Longfield Academy - Term Dates.Enrichment (Afterschool) ClubsOur teachers offer a huge range of afterschool enrichment clubs forpupils to attend. The clubs can change from time to time, for exampletermly or seasonally. To take a look at what we currently have on offer,please visit Longfield Academy - Enrichment Clubs - please note, thereare likely to be changes for the new academic year.An example of some of the clubs offered:

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Nut AllergiesLongfield Academy is a nut free school. The school catering teamtake great care to ensure that food prepared and cooked within theschool kitchen does not contain nuts. In addition, Food TechnologyTeachers also operate a nut free policy within practical foodlessons. Furthermore, staff and pupils are asked to observe the nutfree rule when bringing snacks and/or lunch into school. Disclaimer: Whilst every effort is made to maintain a nut freeenvironment, products such as chocolate (which may have beenmanufactured / packaged within the same factory) are used /consumed on school premises.ParentMail, Biometrics and Dinner MoneyTop-Ups At Longfield, pupils use a ‘cashless catering’ biometric system byscanning their finger to pay for any food they purchase at breakand/or lunchtime. To add money to your child’s account, you mustregister and create an account with ParentMail. A link will be sentto you via e-mail asking you to set up your account and registeryour bank card details – you may already have used this with yourchild’s primary school. Providing you have completed your child’s application by thedeadline, you should receive the ParentMail registration e-mailbefore the transition days. Alternatively, please provide your childwith a small amount of cash each day to purchase their snacks /lunch.To look at our current school menu and pricing, please visit:https://longfield.nalp.org.uk/school-meals/

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Communication - ArborArbor is our management information system. It’s where we hold allof the registration and academic details for your child. ThroughArbor, we can send you emails and/or letters with importantinformation and updates.Our main method of communication is electronically using youremail address. Therefore, to help us to communicate with parents /carers as quickly and efficiently as possible, we encourage you toprovide an email address for at least one parent / carer on yourchild’s application form and kindly ask that you check for emailsregularly. If you do not currently have an email account, we’d be happy to helpsupport you in creating one if required. Arbor is also our behaviour monitoringsystem. It is where teachers / staff willaward red (negative) and green(positive) clicks for behaviour andconduct and it is also wheredetentions will be recorded.Once your child is enrolled, you will begiven access to the Arbor ParentPortal and your child will gain accessto the Student Portal. From here youcan both view a range of informationincluding your child’s timetable,behaviour points and information.Please note, we require parents /carers to check this daily as we do notsend text messages regardingdetentions.

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Website and Social MediaBy visiting the school website, you will have access to informationabout our curriculum, parent letters, news and events, safeguarding,governance, our policies and more. Please visithttps://longfield.nalp.org.uk/We regularly update our social media pages with news stories. Find us on Facebook and Instagram.Click to follow us & join our community:EAL (English as an Additional Language)For families whose first language is not English, we have a wide arrayof materials to assist with communication.There is also a range of information regarding help & support. Please visit the EAL page onthe school website for more information: Longfield - EAL.

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Choices – Allowing teachers to teach andchildren to learn:The purpose of the system:To place the focus on the learningTo place the emphasis on the positive To provide a consistent whole school approach to behaviourTo implement a system where negative behaviour choices hasconsequences, and positive behaviour results in praiseResponsibility for behaviour lies with pupils… it is their choice.We expect all children to focus on their learning in the classroom. Ifa child is not applying themselves or disrupting others, staff willmark the incident with a cross on the choices board. If a childreceives four crosses, they will be asked to leave the lesson and adetention will be issued.

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The Choices ProcedureThe Choices Procedure will ensure:-Low level disruption and passive learning in the classroom is tackledto ensure all children can learn effectively and without interruption.-Pupils will be praised and have positive points on Arbor for showingexcellent attitudes to learning. We regularly review our reward schemeand celebrate pupil success.-Responsibility for a choice of behaviour for learning lies with thepupil. However, to ensure a fair approach, it does give a child threechances to make the right behaviour choice before a sanction isgiven.-When a fourth negative behaviour choice (C4 Remove) is issued, thechild will be told to go to the Choices Room to complete the lessonand will be issued a detention. The detention is the sanction fordisrupting the learning of others four times over the course of thelesson. They are asked to leave the lesson on a C4 Remove, as fourchances to make the right choice is more than reasonable and it is notfair on other pupils to accept further disruption to their learning.The Choices room staff will attempt to match the learning to thelesson, but the pupil will work in silence. A pupil that receives morethan one C4 Remove in a day, will be picked up by the Choices Teamwho will triage an appropriate further sanction and/or intervention.However, it is likely that the pupil will also lose the privilege ofspending lunch and/or break time with their friends.When the system is applied consistently and appropriately by all staff,it is extremely fair and equitable to all. Reasonable adjustments willalways be explored for pupils who have specific identified issues. It is important that all parents / carers access their child’s Arborprofile (via the portal) to enable you to monitor the conduct in school.You will see the ‘green’ positive points as well as ‘red’ negative points,and if your child has received a sanction, monitoring Arbor will helpyou understand why. Detentions will be issued for the following day.It is the responsibility of the parent / carer to check Arbor fordetentions and full days in the Choices Room. We will not send a texthome. Parent / carer login instructions will be issued when your childis enrolled at Longfield Academy.

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Disadvantaged Subsidy InformationIf your annual household income is lower than £17,500.00 you may beeligible for financial assistance with the cost of uniform and schooltrips. If your child is in receipt of Free School Meals, this will automaticallymean they are entitled. A list of entitled pupils will be given to Motif8 as soon as we receivethe information from the Town Hall / Primary Schools to enable you toaccess this financial help. School UniformMotif8 will be our school uniform providers, they will host the pop-upuniform shops on transition evenings on the 25 and 26 June 2025. th thOnce the our uniform is available on their website, we will issuefurther communication regarding how you can purchase this online.Please note, payments for uniform are made directly to Motif8 andprices are set by Motif8. The school has no influence over charges,nor does it receive any percentage of profit. Our uniform is undergoing some changes as we’ve recently changedour logo. Our uniform policy will be updated very soon to reflect thechanges and you will be able to view this within the policy section ofthe school website.Longfield Academy - Uniform.

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