For Reception children, there is an 8.20-8.30am soft start and a 2.50pm to 3.00pm soft finish to the day.

For KS1 children, there is an 8.10-8.20am soft start and a 3.00pm to 3.10pm soft finish to the day.

For KS2 children, there is an 8.10-8.20am soft start and a 3.10pm finish.

For KS3 & 4 children, the start of the day is 8.20am and end of day is 3.10pm.

If your child is late to school, they must sign in at Reception. Being punctual is an important aspect of school life and ensures lessons can begin on time and take place without disruption. In the secondary phase, students receive a 20-minute detention at lunchtime if they are late to school. In the primary phase, parents will receive letters if their children are regularly late to school; Nishkam School West London aims to encourage and instil good habits in our children from a young age and we ask parents to work with us to achieve this. If children arrive after 8.45am, their attendance is marked as ‘late after registers closed’ and they will be given an unauthorised absence mark for the morning session.

If you are late to collect your primary child, they will be escorted to reception by an Associate Teacher, where they will be supervised. Whilst we know it is sometimes unavoidable, we ask all parents to arrive on time for the collection to avoid disruption to our after-school activities. Please note that if you are more than 15 minutes late to collect your child from the normal school day, you will be charged the 3-4.30pm aftercare fee and an additional £5 emergency booking fee.

Secondary phase children are permitted to use the library at the end of the day.

Yes, you can. However, you must ensure the adult has your child’s pick-up password.

Please email Attendance NSWL attendance.nswl@nishkamschools.org or call the school on 02031418760.

All term dates can be found here Nishkam School - Term dates (nishkamschooltrust.org)

Parents are expected to organise family holidays outside the school term dates during the school holiday period. The DFE (Department for Education) have advised Schools not to

authorise holidays taken during term time. Only in exceptional circumstances can a Headteacher agree to term time leave. You can find more information on your child’s attendance and term time leave here Nishkam School - Attendance

We ask all parents to download the MyChildatSchool application, where notifications will be sent directly to you. https://www.mychildatschool.com/MCAS/MCSParentLogin However, we also email parents with important updates such as school closures.

If you do not have your MCAS login details, please email Enquiries NSWL Enquiries.NSWL@nishkamschools.org with your full name and your child’s full name.

For reception, children, their lunchtime is 11.20am – 12.10pm

KS1 children have break at 9.40-9.55am and lunch at 12pm – 12.50pm

LKS2 children have break at 10.00am-10.15am and lunch at 12.20pm – 1.10pm

UKS2 children have break at 10.00am-10.15am and lunch at 12.40pm – 1.30pm

KS3 & 4 children have break at 10.35-10.50am and lunch at 12.40pm – 1.20pm

KS5 children are permitted to have lunch from 12.10-1.20pm based on their timetables. KS5 children are permitted to leave site for lunch time.

Cold and hot lunch is available for £2.65. In the secondary phase, there are tuck shop items available at break/lunch, which start at 70p.

Please complete this form regardless of whether you want your child to have school lunches or packed lunches.

Important: Since September 2023, all primary phase students have been able to enjoy school meals for free. Parents do not need to register to receive these meals.

If you are in receipt of certain benefits or would like to receive free milk for your infant-aged children, you must still register for free school meals.

For every child that registers for free school meals, schools receive valuable "Pupil Premium" funding from the Government which in turn helps to increase resources in School. Even if your child chooses not to eat school meals, we would still encourage you to register. Students who receive Pupil Premium funding will also be eligible for discounts on things like clubs, trips, wraparound care and uniform.

Please ensure all sections of this form are completed. This information is required to check your eligibility for Free School Meals. Missing information may lead to delays in processing your application. This is also important to ensure the school receives the correct funding for your child. If you do not receive any of the following benefits your child will still receive free school meals up until year 6 (or until the government announce the end of universal free school meals for primary phase students.

If you receive any of these benefits then you would be entitled to Free School Meals:

• Universal Credit (provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods)
• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided you're not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)
• Working Tax Credit run-on - paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

To complete an application, you will need to provide:

• Your own name and date of birth
• Contact details
• National Insurance Number or National Asylum Seekers Number
• Child's name and date of birth
• School your child is attending/will attend.

https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/link2ict

If your child is under 5, they are entitled to FREE school milk. Every child over the age of five is entitled to milk at a subsidised price of around £18 per term. You can go online and quickly register your child for school milk at www.coolmilk.com

Yes, all children have access to free drinking water. We advise they bring reusable water bottles with them to school every day.

The content of lunchboxes should strive to reflect the requirement of schools to meet minimum food and nutrition standards for school meals.

Children’s packed lunches should include items from the 5 main food groups;

• Bread, Rice, Potatoes, Pasta. These starchy foods are a healthy source of energy. Packed lunches should include 2 or more portions e.g. pasta salad, sandwich.
• Fruit and Vegetables. These foods provide vitamins, minerals and fibre. Lunches should include at least 1 portion of fruit and 1 portion of vegetables / salad, or more e.g. carrot/cucumber sticks, cherry tomatoes, a piece of fruit.
• Milk and Dairy food (equivalent non-dairy products). These foods provide calcium for healthy bones and teeth. Include 1 portion at lunch e.g. yoghurt, fromage frais, oat milk etc
• Cheese, Tofu, Beans, Lentils. These foods provide protein for growth. Packed lunches should include 1 portion of these foods e.g. Cheese wrap or mixed bean salad.
• Drinks – any drinks provided in lunch boxes should only include either plain water, milk or unsweetened fresh fruit juice. No flavoured water or drinks containing added sugar.

The school site is a meat, fish and egg free site. We also do not allow nuts on the school site due to students with serious allergies.

Foods and drinks high in fat and/or sugar. It is important not to fill up on too many foods that are high in fat and/or sugar at the expense of other more nutritious foods. Limiting high fat and sugar foods will help protect children from becoming overweight as well as helping prevent tooth decay, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.

Please support us by not including these items in a packed lunch:

• Fizzy Pop/Fruit shoots
• Sweets
• Chocolate bars

Our focus on healthy eating means that pupils can bring to school fruit, vegetables or bread sticks/rice cakes for their morning snack. Any other items are discouraged. If your child does have a diagnosed medical condition that effects their eating, we ask you to talk to their class teacher.

This snack must be kept in their bag. The snack must not be kept in their lunchbox so that it is easy to access when breaktime starts.

All snacks and lunches brought into school must be vegetarian (no egg) and nut-free.

We encourage pupils to bring in a water bottle each day. Please do not put juices or squash in the bottles.

We do not allow sweets/treats to be brought in for birthday celebrations, in line with our healthy eating policy.

Uniform can be purchased from My Uniform Hub www.myuniformhub.com

My Uniform Hub attend school throughout the year. However, items can also be purchased online.

In the interests of safety, pupils should not wear jewellery as these items can easily become entangled and therefore present a health and safety risk. Students may wear simple stud earrings, one in each ear. Please see further information on the website https://www.nishkamschooltrust.org/nswl/parents/uniform-primary-phase

https://www.nishkamschooltrust.org/nswl/parents/uniform-secondary-phase

Please speak to our receptionists, who will provide you with the relevant forms to complete. These forms are also available on MCAS. Please do not deliver any medication to your child’s class teacher. All items must go via Reception.

Proof of the appointment must be emailed to Attendance NSWL attendance.nswl@nishkamschools.org in order for the absence to be authorised. Please be advised that students will be collected upon your arrival to the school and not in advance. Therefore, please leave adequate time for staff to collect your child. Secondary age children can present to reception at the time they need to leave but will need the ‘permission to leave school’ form completed at the back of their planner

Information on absence periods can be found in our Health & Safety Policy Nishkam School - School Policies (nishkamschooltrust.org). This list of recommended absence periods for preventing the spread of infection is taken from non statutory guidance for schools and other childcare settings from Public Health England. For each of these infections or complaints, there is further information in the guidance on the symptoms, how it spreads and some ‘do’s and don’ts’ to follow that you can check. For minor illnesses such as colds and headaches, we encourage all students to attend school if they are well enough to do so.

If your child has a serious accident at school, they will be treated by a first aider. You will then be contacted and may be asked to collect them. For minor accidents such as cuts and bruises that can be treated at school, you will be informed at pick-up and via an email from Medical Tracker. For secondary students, we ask students to inform parents about minor injuries when they return home. For more serious injuries, you will receive an email from Medical Tracker. If your child hit their head in any way, you will receive a ‘head injury’ letter via Medical Tracker to look out for signs of concussion.

Children are not required to isolate if they have headlice and can attend school as normal. We encourage parents to treat the headlice at home.

The school does not have on-site parking. Parents can park in Tesco car park or in the local area where it is safe and legal to do so. However, please be advised that double parking, stopping/parking near a school entrance or in a position that may cause an obstruction on the road or stopping/parking in front of an entrance to a property are all breeches of the Highway Code. We ask all parents to ensure they are following the Highway Code and are behaving in a way that is considerate of our neighbours, other road users and our pupils when driving/parking around the school.

Any verbal abuse toward staff will be treated seriously by the school and, where appropriate, will be reported to the police. The role of our Traffic Marshalls is to keep our children safe as they enter and leave the school site. There are valuable members of our school community and should be treated with respect by all of our stakeholders.

Yes, your child can cycle to school but must bring a bike lock and wear a helmet.

After school clubs for primary phase pupils are released at the end of each term with individualised pricing and availability. More information about wraparound care can be found here Nishkam School - Information on Wraparound Care

Please email Enquiries NSWL Enquiries.NSWL@nishkamschools.org with your concerns. Your child’s teacher may not be able to meet with you in person due to their availability, but they will be happy to contact you in another form to discuss any of your concerns.

The school has mechanisms in both the primary and the secondary phase for ensuring that pupil voice is heard. These include focus groups, pupil surveys and pupil leadership groups. All teachers and staff are open to receiving feedback from students about any ideas, suggestions or views they have.

Please email Enquiries NSWL Enquiries.NSWL@nishkamschools.org with your concerns. Your child’s teacher may not be able to meet with you in person due to their availability, but they will be happy to contact you in another form to discuss any of your concerns. For secondary children, your child’s Head of Key Stage is best placed to answer any concerns you may have.

The curriculum will be differentiated to meet their needs and support will be put in place as required.

We are an all-through school and pupils in Year 6 move directly into Year 7. Staff from both phases work in collaboration to support transition, This includes visits to the secondary phase classrooms, cross-phase teaching and sharing of key academic and pastoral information.

Lost property is put out every Tuesday and Thursday from 3-4pm in the Main Reception. We strongly advise labelling all items of clothes/equipment to ensure we can easily return lost items.

SEN stands for Special Educational Needs and SENCo stands for Special Educational Needs Coordinator. If your child has SEN or you would like to discuss your child’s needs with the SENCo, we would be happy to discuss further. Please email Enquiries NSWL Enquiries.NSWL@nishkamschools.org with your concerns.

Depending on your child’s needs, we can provide additional support and expertise from the below services.

• Speech & Language
• Occupational Therapy
• Educational Psychologist
• Counsellor
• SEND adviser
• Hounslow Music Service
• Sports Impact