News

Monday 20th January 2025

Dear Parents, Carers and Students,

Welcome to our newsletter for the third week of the Spring Term 2025. 

It’s week A with our whole school assemblies taking place. These are being led by Mr Pavey (Assistant Headteacher) and focus on challenging misogyny.

The Local Authority has relaunched its Local Offer website and details about this and a drop-in session at Hounslow House can be found below.

A reminder of some key dates for the weeks ahead:

Tuesday 28th January                   Y8 Celebration Evening at 4pm

Thursday 6th February                   Y10 Parents’ Evening from 4-7pm

Thursday 13th February                 Y13 Parents’ Evening from 4-7pm

Friday 14th February                     Remote Learning Day for students - further details to follow

With best wishes for the week ahead,

Stephen Davis

 

Hounslow’s Local Offer

The London Borough of Hounslow is excited to announce its brand-new Local Offer website, which provides advice, guidance and support for professionals and families with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) is now live. You can view it here: www.hounslow.gov.uk/send-local-offer 

This website has been produced with the help of the Hounslow Community, including young people, parents/carers and professionals and is a vital resource for families and any professionals working with children and young people with SEND.  

To celebrate the launch of this new website, the London Borough of Hounslow are hosting a Local Offer Launch event on Friday, 24 January on the ground floor of Hounslow House, Bath Road, Hounslow, TW3 3EB from 10am-4.30pm. This is a marketplace event with both Council services and external partners attending. No invitation is required, parents and carers can drop by to find out more about what services and support are available for children and young people with SEND. 

If you have any further questions about the Local Offer site or our launch event, please contact us at thelocaloffer@hounslow.gov.uk   

 

Attendance

We want to do everything we can to support your child to succeed at Lampton and therefore we are continuing this term with tutor conversations about attendance and also praise through letters home, vouchers for students with 96% or above and celebrating students who have improved their attendance. Please let us know if you need support with your child attending school. We will support you and your child to remove barriers and to be successful academically and personally. We have a staged approach to supporting pupils to ensure they have good attendance. The approach is described below:

Stage 1: A pupil’s form tutor will receive data from our tracker. They will speak to the pupil about decreasing attendance. This is to help remove any barriers to learning

Stage 2: After the first 4 weeks,  pupils whose attendance is below 90%, 70% or 50% will receive a text/call home about decreasing attendance. This is to remind parents that we have a target of 96% attendance as a school

Stage 3: A letter will be sent home, describing the concerns we have about a pupil’s attendance Stage 4: An attendance contract will be signed and parents will be invited in for a meeting. This is to set targets to improve attendance and look at what support the school can give to help a pupil improve their attendance

Stage 5: If a pupil’s attendance continues to decline, a member of the Senior Leadership Team or a Trustee will meet with the pupil and their parents. A school attendance support services referral will be completed. This is a referral to the local authority

Stage 6: A family you will be set targets by the Local Authority. If these are not met it can result in prosecution and/or fines. This includes fines for persistent lateness. 

 

Support for Parents

Please click here to access many resources to help parents whilst their child is at Lampton School. The resources range from support with mental health, attendance, financial support and many more. 

 

Metropolitan Police Webinars – Child Exploitation

There are online webinars run by the Metropolitan Police for parents who are concerned about their child being exploited or groomed. Click here for information about webinar that takes place in January and here for information about the webinar that takes place  in February.