Privacy Notice for pupils and their Families

This notice is to help you understand how and why we collect your personal information and what we do with that information. It also explains the decisions that you can make about your own information.

Information that we collect, hold and share include:

• Personal information (such as name, date of birth, parental contacts, unique pupil number and address)
• Characteristics (such as ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth and free school meal eligibility)
• Attendance information (such as sessions attended, number of absences any exclusions and absence reasons)
• Statutory Assessment information and results (such as EYFS, KS1 and KS2 tests, Phonics Screening, internal tests, pupil progress information)
• Internal assessments and test results.
• Special educational needs information (such as specific learning difficulties, specific medial needs and previous learning or medical needs)
• Relevant medical information (such as allergies to food, medication you  may require and medical incidents that have occurred inside or outside of school that may affect learning)
• Behavioural information  (such as rewards, achievements, incident slips and exclusions)
• Details of any support received, including care packages, plans and support providers.
• Photographs (such as a photograph of you for your student file, photographs celebrating your achievements)
• CCTV images captured in school.
• We may also hold data about you that we have received from other organisations, including other schools, local authorities and the Department for Education.

Why do we collect and use your information?

We will collect and process personal data about you for the following reasons:

• to admit and  register you as a pupil in our school
• to support your learning and to provide you with an education
• to monitor, assess and report on your academic progress
• to provide appropriate pastoral care
• to protect your welfare
• to assess the quality of our services
• to comply with the law regarding data sharing
• to comply with safe guarding legislation
• to produce statistical returns required by the LA
• to communicate with your parents or carer
• to collect payment for school dinners and educational trips
• to identify pupils entitled to free school meals and pupil premium funding
• to investigate and prevent crime
• to safeguard the welfare of pupils, staff and visitors on School site. 

The Lawful basis on which we use this information

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing are:

• For the purpose of complying with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
• for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

• in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person.
• for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.
• the individual has given clear consent for you to process their personal data for a specific purpose.

Collecting information

Whilst the majority of the personal data you provide to the school is mandatory, some is provided on a voluntary basis.  When collecting data, the school will inform you whether you are required to provide this data or if your consent is needed.  Where consent is needed, the school will provide you with specific and explicit information with regards to the reasons the data is being collected and how the data will be used.

Storing data

In accordance with the GDPR, the school does not store personal data indefinitely; data is only stored for as long as is necessary to complete the task for which it was originally collected. We keep personal information about you while you are attending our school. We will then transfer your records to your new school who will keep it until you are 25 years old. We may also keep your data beyond your attendance at our school if this is necessary in order to comply with legal obligations.

Information will be held in accordance with the Information and Records Management Society Tool Kit for Schools ( https://irms.site-ym.com/page/SchoolsToolkit  )

Who we share information with

We use a range of companies and partners to either store personal information or to manage it for us. Where we have these arrangements there is always a contract, memorandum of understanding or information sharing protocol in place to ensure that the organisation complies with data protection law. We complete privacy impact assessments before we share personal information to ensure their compliance with the law. We only share your personal information with any third parties when the law allows us to do so or with your consent. The school may share your information with:

• Parents or carers to let them know how you are achieving academically and how you are behaving in school.
• School Nursing Team, NHS and other health authorities to help look after your welfare.
• Direct Service Kitchen staff and other relevant staff to inform them of your dietary requirements and if you are allergic to something.
• School photographer (Tempest) to enable your photograph to be uploaded onto your student file.
• Our regulator (Ofsted) to check the quality and standard of education in school.
• Any school you attend after leaving us to support the smooth transition from one school to the next.
• ICT Technician (Entrust) to enable you to use the school’s ICT equipment to support your learning (i.e. laptops, tablets).
• Place2Be if you want to talk about friendships or any worries you might have. Place2Be can also provide you and your family with emotional and therapeutic support. They are a charity who work in schools to improve the confidence and wellbeing of children.
• Soundswell (speech and language therapy services) if you require help with speech, language and communication skills.
• CSAWS Attendance Consultant in order to assist in the monitoring and tracking of declining attendance in the school so that recommendations and support can be put in place quickly.
• The Education Legal Intervention Team if your attendance continues to be a concern despite support provided by the school and the Family and Attendance Welfare Consultant.
• Police and courts if a situation arises where a criminal investigation is being carried out we may have to forward information on to the police to aid their investigation. We will pass information onto courts as an when it is ordered.
• Social workers and support agencies in order to protect or maintain the welfare and safeguarding of our pupils e.g. Children’s Advice & Support Service (CASS).
• Family and emergency services if there is an emergency situation e.g. illness, serious injury.
• Local Authority Practitioners and multi agencies to provide SEND advice, support and guidance for SEN pupils:- Special Educational Needs Assessment and Review Service (Senar), Pupil and School Support (PSS), Communication and Autism Team (CAT) and Educational Psychology Service (EPS).
• The Local Authority Admissions Team to enable you to start school or leave to join another school.
• Consultants, experts and other advisors to assist school in fulfilling its obligations and help run the school properly.
• Suppliers and service providers to enable them to provide the service we have contracted them to support your learning.

The software systems we use in school to help us provide you with an education and look after your welfare are:

• Capita SIMS (Schools Management Information System) to store all the important information about you such as your attendance, dietary requirements, emergency contact numbers etc.
• CPOMS (software application) to record and monitor any child protection, safeguarding, pastoral, welfare and behaviour issues.
• Parent Pay (school payment system) to collect payment for school trips and meals from your parents/carers.
• Groupcall (online messaging system) to share messages, newsletters, letters and information regarding school activities with your parents/carers.
• Lexia (reading software programme) to assess progress, identify and provide appropriate support to improve your reading skills.
• Speechlink (speech and language software) to assess progress, identify and provide appropriate interventions if you need support speech and language skills.
• Times Tables Rock Stars to support you with learning your timetables in years 3-6.
• Read Write Inc to support you with learning phonics
• SATs Companion to deliver targeted intervention to track progress and identify gaps in your learning when you are a year 6 pupil
• Doodle Learning to deliver personalised learning to help boost your ability and confidence in Maths and English when you are in Year 3 and 4
• Tapestry to record and assess your progress whilst you are of Reception class age.
• Toolkit Progress Tracker to monitor those children in receipt of additional targets in the form of an Individual Target Plan (ITP.)
• BFL Business Solutions to recover outstanding debt on behalf of the school.
• CCTV software to investigate crime and to safeguard the welfare of pupils, staff and visitors on school site. Further information about the use of CCTV can be found in the School's CCTV policy.
• Capita PLC to identify/verify if you are entitled to free school meals and to enable school to claim pupil premium funding to support your learning. 
• SchoolsCloud Parents evening booking system to enable parents to speak to your class teacher about your progress in class.
• Wonde who uses pupil data from the schools MIS to create user names to enable you to access Google Classrooms when using a loaned school Chromebook at home.
• G Suite for Education, which includes:
  • Google classrooms which enables you to find all of your work and communicate with your teacher, and get feedback and grades.
  • Form is used by teachers to create Quizzes so you can demonstrate your knowledge.
  • Google Drive is where you can store and organise your school work, documents and access them from any device. This means that all of your important work is saved automatically and won’t get lost. 
• InVentry school visitor signing in system for when your parents may visit school.
• Micro librarian to allow you to borrow books from the school library.
• EVOLVEaccidentbook to record any injuries, illnesses and accidents you may have.
• Provision Map (Edukey) to enable the SEND team to support pupils with special educational needs or disabilities to succeed in their learning and achievements.
• NFER Tests Analysis Tool to record your marks from tests taken in Years 1-5 for Maths, Reading and Spelling to enable comparisons across terms and years and see how you are performing against the national average. 
• Marvellous me.  To communicate with your parents about your learning in school.

Why we share information

We do not share information about you with anyone without consent unless the law and our policies allow us to do so. The legislation the school shares data under includes but is not limited to:

• Education Act 2011
• Education and Skills Act 2008
• The Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014
• Children and Families Act 2014
• Children’s Act 1989 & 2004
• The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.

We share pupil’s data with the Department for Education (DfE) on a statutory basis. This data sharing underpins school funding and educational attainment policy and monitoring.

We are required to share information about our pupils with our local authority (LA) and the Department for Education (DfE) under section 3 of The Education (Information about Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.

To find out more about the data collection requirements placed on us by the Department for Education (for example; via the school census) go to https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools

The National Pupil Database (NPD)

The NPD is owned and managed by the Department for Education and contains information about pupils in schools in England. It provides invaluable evidence on educational performance to inform independent research, as well as studies commissioned by the Department. It is held in electronic format for statistical purposes. This information is securely collected from a range of sources including schools, local authorities and awarding bodies. 

We are required by law, to provide information about our pupils to the DfE as part of statutory data collections such as the school census and early years’ census. Some of this information is then stored in the NPD. The law that allows this is the Education (Information about Individual Pupils) (England) Regulations 2013.

To find out more about the pupil information we share with the department, for the purpose of data collections, go to https://www.gov.uk/education/data-collection-and-censuses-for-schools   

To find out more about the NPD, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationalpupil-database-user-guide-and-supporting-information .

The department may share information about our pupils from the NPD with third parties who promote the education or well-being of children in England by:

• conducting research or analysis
• producing statistics
• providing information, advice or guidance

The Department has robust processes in place to ensure the confidentiality of our data is maintained and there are stringent controls in place regarding access and use of the data. Decisions on whether DfE releases data to third parties are subject to a strict approval process and based on a detailed assessment of:

• who is requesting the data
• the purpose for which it is required
• the level and sensitivity of data requested: and 
• the arrangements in place to store and handle the data 

To be granted access to pupil information, organisations must comply with strict terms and conditions covering the confidentiality and handling of the data, security arrangements and retention and use of the data.

For more information about the department’s data sharing process, please visit:  https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data   

For information about which organisations the department has provided pupil information, (and for which project), please visit the following website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-pupil-database-requests-received  

To contact DfE: https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe  

Requesting access to your personal data

Under data protection legislation, parents and pupils have the right to request access to information about them that we hold. To make a request for your personal information, or be given access to your child’s educational record, contact the Headteacher

You also have the right to:

• object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
• prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
• object to decisions being taken by automated means
• in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; 
• claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations

If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we request that you raise your concern with us in the first instance. Alternatively, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/  or on 0303 123 1113, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.

Contact:

If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please contact:

Headteacher