Planner, school ID/lunch card, pens (black & green), pencil (x2), rubber, sharpener, 30cm ruler, coloured pencils, highlighters,  reading book.

The school planner helps students organise their work at Swanlea. It helps pupils record and plan their homework. It contains attendance monitoring pages, faculty merit sheets as well as a range of learning tips. It is also the first point of home – school communication. Tutors check and sign the planner on a weekly basis, and we ask parents/carers to do the same and encourage you to use the planner to communicate with your child’s teachers.

For safety reasons, it is vital that we know as soon as possible if your child is going to be absent from school. Please call us on 0207 375 3267 select option 1, and leave a message stating your child’s name, tutor group and, where possible, length of absence. We also ask that you send in a note explaining your child’s absence on their first day back (this can be written in the student planner).

We will contact parents/carers of any child with an unauthorised absence by text message on the first day of absence.

Parents/Carers should let to school know if the child will not attend no later than 8:30am.

All students that are unavoidably late should report to the main reception with a note explaining their lateness, reception will then mark them present and hand the child a late slip to show to their class teacher.

School dinners cost £2 per day or £10 per week. We operate a ‘cashless – top up card’ system for anyone that pays for their dinner.  The account can only be topped up online. Please ensure where possible that your child’s lunch card is kept topped up.  Free school meals are automatically processed.

Replacement lunch cards cost £2 this money will be deducted from the child’s account whenever a lunch card is replaced.

Yes – this can then be eaten in the restaurant, garden or playground, and must comply with our healthy eating policy.

After school detentions are usually only given to students failing to hand their homework in on more than one occasion or for poor behaviour. The teacher issuing the detention would give 24 hours written notice via the planner, a letter home or make a phone call home. Students can be kept behind for up to 15 minutes without notice.

Attendance and punctuality is taken very seriously at Swanlea School. School begins at 8:35am and students are expected to be in their form rooms, ready for registration, by 8:35am. If a student arrives after 8:35am, they will be marked as late, and will get a 20 minute lunchtime detention. If a student fails to attend their lunch time detention, the students will be given a 1 hour detention after-school. The school makes every effort to contact parents/carers to let them know of any after-school detentions via phone call, text and email.

We take all forms of bullying seriously as a school and will act swiftly, firmly and supportively to deal with any instances of bullying. A concerned child or parent/carer can speak to any member of school staff including a SPARC student, Tutor, LCO or a member of Senior Leadership Team. The school will then investigate the issue fully and act in the best interests of the children involved. At all stages of the process the child and parent/carer will be kept informed of events.

Please call us at the school so that we can set up a time to meet with you to discuss your child’s medication requirements. Based on this we will draw up a care plan and then designate a specific person who can help your child take their medicine. The link person for this is Ms Petrina Bryden, our Wellbeing Hub Coordinator who can be contacted on 0207 375 3267 ext 332.

If you have any concerns at all about any aspect of your child’s education or progress, then we encourage you to call us/write a note in your child’s planner requesting a meeting with the Tutor or LCO if it is a general query, or the subject teacher concerned if it is a query about a specific lesson.