Parents & Community

You are very welcome to email any questions to info@abbeyfarmet.org.uk.  Our school policy is to respond to an email within three working days.

If your child/ren attends AFET we expect to work in partnership to achieve the very best for your child/ren.  We expect all parents to follow our school Code of Conduct.  If your child attends AFET then we all agree to follow these principles.

Abbey Farm ET Primary School Tours for September 2027 Admissions

We are so excited to welcome local families into our new school through our series of small tours. Places on each tour are limited, so we can answer all your questions and keep the learning environment calm for our current children.

You will be shown around the school facilities, with a chance to see classes in action.

There are a range of dates, tickets are limited to two per family to allow everyone a chance to get a tour.

Pre-school tours 2026-27 

We are so excited to welcome local families onto our school through our series of tours.  Places on each tour are limited, so we can answer all your questions and keep the learning environment calm for our current children.

You will be shown around the school facilities, with a chance to see our pre-school class in action. We do recommend coming along without your child, if possible (they can get a little bored of adults talking) but if childcare is an issue, we would rather you visit with your child than miss out on the tour!

There are a range of dates and tickets are limited to two per family to allow everyone a chance to get a tour.

Visit the tabs below for further info and let us know if you have further questions and/or ideas. info@abbeyfarmet.org.uk.

Code of Conduct
We value our strong relationship with parents and carers, as together this helps us achieve the very best for the children in a mutually supportive partnership between parents, class teachers and the wider school community.

At AFET, we believe it’s important to:
• Work in partnership with parents to support their child’s learning
• Create a safe, respectful, calm and inclusive environment for pupils, staff, parents and visitors
• Model appropriate behaviour for our pupils at all times (modelled by staff, parents and visitors)
To help us do this, we set clear expectations and guidelines on behaviour for all members of our community. This includes staff (through the staff code of conduct) and pupils (through our behaviour policy). This code of conduct aims to help the school work together with parents by setting guidelines on appropriate behaviour.

We use the term ‘parents’ to refer to:
• Anyone with parental responsibility for a pupil
• Anyone caring for a child (such as grandparents or child-minders)
As a partnership, our parents understand the importance of a good working relationship to equip their children with the necessary skills for adulthood. For these reasons we continually welcome and encourage parents or carers to participate fully in the life of our school through visits, events, meetings and engagement with Governors or the FPTA.
To truly create the best outcomes for children it requires the relationship between home and school to be based on the principles of care, integrity, trust and mutual respect. The maintenance of this relationship is important to ensure that a child or children are safe and not open to undue distress and anxiety, and school staff are not subjected to abuse, threats or aggressive behaviour.

Guidance
As well as following the guidance set out on our website through our core principles and values, parents, carers and visitors are reminded:
• To respect the caring ethos and values of the school
• That school staff and families need to work together for the benefit of their children
• Approaching school staff for help to resolve an issue is done in an appropriate manner
• All members of the school community are treated with respect using appropriate language and behaviour.
In order to support a peaceful and safe school environment the school will not tolerate parents or visitors exhibiting the following:
• Disruptive behaviour which interferes or threatens to interfere with any of the schools operation or activities anywhere on the school premises.
• Any inappropriate behaviour on the school premises.
• Using loud or offensive language or displaying temper.
• Threatening, in any way, a member of school staff, visitor, fellow parent/carer or pupil.
• Sending abusive or threatening e-mails or text/voicemail/phone messages or other written communications to anyone within the school community.
• Defamatory, offensive or derogatory comments regarding the school or any of the pupils/parent/staff, at the school on Facebook or other social sites. (See Appendix 1).
• The use of physical or verbal aggression towards another adult or child. This includes physical punishment against your own child on school premises.
• Approaching someone else’s child in order to discuss or chastise them because of the actions of this child towards their own child. (Such an approach to a child may be seen to be an assault on that child and would have safeguarding consequences).
• Smoking (including vapes) or the consumption of alcohol on school premises (alcohol may only be consumed during authorised events).

Should any of the above occur on school premises the school may feel it is necessary to take action by contacting the appropriate authorities and/or sadly, consider banning the offending adult from entering the school premises under Section 576 of the Education act 1976.

Thank you for abiding by this guidance in our school. The vast majority of our school community treat staff and children with respect, however unfortunately we have had a small number of incidents in school where staff have felt threatened or abused. AFET Primary school will not tolerate behaviour that compromises the safety and well-being of our children and adults whether parents, members of staff, visitors or governors.

One of the most common questions we get asked on the school tours is, ‘Do you set home work for the children?’

As the school grows, we will create a homework policy that works for both our children and parents.  Homework is always a challenging area as many families have strong views on what it should be.  Some families advocate for a quite rigorous structure, at a high level, so that pupils are ‘used’ to homework, by the time that they leave Year 6, in preparation for secondary where there is no opt out clause.  Others believe it infringes on family time and do not wish to participate.

At AFET we will be consulting our community as the children move through the year groups but have found in the past that a choice of topic projects alongside reading, and maths works well and can be adapted for all situations.

When children start in Reception, they are given a reading book that is directly linked to their phonics learning and a ‘free choice’ reading book.  This is currently all that is set.  The reading scheme we use is ‘Little Wandle’ and has a range of additional activities for parents to do with their child if they wish and Chloe emails weekly, the sound that is being taught.

We use our communication platform Tapestry to share things that the children are exploring at home and school, all learning outside of school is homework in a way and the adventures they have at home with their family are as valuable as their reading book.

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