School or college contact details

Our website must include:

• name of your school or college
• postal address of your school or college 
• telephone number of your school or college
• name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public
• name of the headteacher or principal
• name and address of the chair of the governing body (if you have one)
• name and contact details of your special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (SENCO) unless you’re a special academy

If you’re an academy or free school, you should publish details about your academy’s sponsor:

• if the school’s owner is an individual, you should publish their full name and contact details (address and a telephone number)
• if the school’s owner is a group or organisation, you should publish the address and telephone number of its office

To view the contact details of Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit the Contact Us page.

Admission arrangements

Academies

Admissions arrangements for all mainstream academy schools, other than the institutions detailed below, must comply with the School admissions code and the School admission appeals code.

Academy trusts must publish the admissions arrangements for their schools on their website and keep them there for the whole of the offer year (the school year in which offers for places are made).

To view the Admission Arrangements of Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our Admissions page. 

16 to 19 academies and colleges

If you’re a 16 to 19 academy, FE college or sixth form, we recommend that you publish details of your admission arrangements.

You should publish this information a year before the beginning of the academic year to help parents and students make an informed choice, and we recommend that the arrangements don’t change during the year. You should include details of:

• open days your college or academy is planning
• the process for applying for a place at your college or academy
• whether your college or academy gives priority to applications from pupils enrolled at particular schools

Note that the School admissions code and the School admissions appeal code don’t apply to 16 to 19 academies, FE colleges and sixth-form colleges.

To view the details of our admissions process and and open days for Sixth Form Students, please visit our Sixth Form section.

Ofsted reports

Academies and colleges, including 16 to 19 institutions, should do one of the following:

• publish a copy of your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report
• publish a link to the webpage where users can find your school’s or college’s most recent Ofsted report

To view our most recent Ofsted report, please visit our Ofsted Report page.

Exam and assessment results

Key stage 4 (KS4)

If you’re an academy, you should publish the following information on your website each year:

• your school’s progress 8 score
• your school’s attainment 8 score
• the percentage of pupils who’ve achieved a strong pass (grade 5 or above) in English and maths at the end of KS4
• the percentage of pupils entering for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). To enter the EBacc, pupils must take up to 8 GCSEs or equivalents, across the 5 subject ‘pillars’ of English language and English literature, maths, sciences, a language and history or geography
• percentage of pupils who’ve achieved the English Baccalaureate. In 2017, this was the percentage of pupils achieving the EBacc, so pupils who got a grade 5 or above in English and maths, and a grade C or above in the science, humanities and language pillars of the EBacc. In 2018, the EBaccattainment measure will change to an average point score (EBacc APS), showing pupils’ point scores across the 5 pillars of the EBacc
• percentage of students staying in education or employment after key stage 4 (destinations)

During the transition to the new GCSE grading scale we will base the EBaccpass level on grade 5 or above for reformed subjects and grade C and above for unreformed subjects.

Key stage 5 (KS5)

If you’re an academy or college, you should publish a link to your 16 to 18 performance tables page.

You can find more information about these performance table measures in the ‘16 to 18 accountability headline measures’ guidance.

Performance tables

Academies, including 16 to 19 academies and colleges, should publish a link to the school and college performance tables and your school or college’s performance tables page.

To view the KS4 and KS5 results of Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our KS4/KS5 results page. 

To view the Performance Tables of Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our DfE Performance Tables page. 

Curriculum

Academies should publish:

• the content of the curriculum your school follows in each academic year for every subject, including for mandatory subjects such as Religious Education even if it’s taught as part of another subject or subjects or is called something else
• your approach to the curriculum
• how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following
• how you meet the 16 to 19 study programme requirements (if you have a sixth form or offer education at 16 to 19)

Depending on what phase of education your school offers, we recommend you also publish any of the following that apply to your school:

• the names of any phonics or reading schemes you are using in key stage 1
• a list of the courses available to pupils at key stage 4, including GCSEs
• the 16 to 19 qualifications you offer

To view details of our Curriculum, please visit our Curriculum Overview page. 

Remote education

You must publish information about your school’s remote education provision on your website. An optional template is available to support schools with this requirement.

Find out more about remote education expectations in the actions for schools during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

To view details of our Remote Education provision, please visit our Remote Learning website section.

Behaviour policy

Academies should publish details of the school’s behaviour policy, including its anti-bullying strategy.

Read advice on developing and publishing your school’s behaviour policy.

We encourage colleges to publish this information as good practice.

To view the Behaviour Policy of Joseph Leckie Academy, please view our Policies page.

Pupil premium

If your school receives pupil premium funding, your funding agreement will state what information you need to publish about it.

Regardless of what your funding agreement requires you to publish, we recommend that you publish details of your pupil premium strategy.

For the current academic year, we recommend you publish:

• how much pupil premium funding you received for this academic year
• details of the main barriers to educational achievement that the disadvantaged children in your school face
• how you will spend your pupil premium funding to overcome these barriers and the reasons for the approach you’ve chosen
• how you will measure the effect of the pupil premium
• the date of the next pupil premium strategy review

For the previous academic year, we recommend you publish:

• how you spent your pupil premium funding
• the effect that the pupil premium had on pupils

The Teaching Schools Council has produced guidance for schools on developing and presenting their pupil premium strategy, including a pupil premium strategy template which schools may choose to use.

To view the Pupil Premium strategy here at Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our Pupil Premium page. 

Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium

If your school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how you spend this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.

You must include:

• how much year 7 catch-up premium you received for this financial year
• details of how you intend to spend the funding
• details of how you spent your year 7 catch-up premium last financial year
• how it made a difference to the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding and how you assessed the effect it had.

To view the details of our Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium here at Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our Year 7 Catchup Premium page.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) catch-up premium

If your school gets the coronavirus (COVID-19) catch-up premium grant in academic year 2020 to 2021, you should publish details of:

• how it is intended that the grant will be spent
• how the effect of this expenditure on the educational attainment of those pupils at the school will be assessed

There’s further information on the coronavirus (COVID-19) catch-up premium.

(This is currently under review)

Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

Special educational needs (SEN) information report

Academies and free schools must publish a report on their policy for pupils or students with SEN and how they put the policy into effect. They should update this information annually, or as soon as possible if there are changes during the year.

The report must comply with:

• section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014, including:
  • the arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils
  • the steps you have taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably than other pupils
  • the facilities you provide to help disabled pupils to access the school
  • information as to the plan prepared by the governing body or proprietor under paragraph 3 of schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 (accessibility plan) for:
    • increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school’s curriculum
    • improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities and services provided or offered by the school
    • improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled
• regulation 51 and schedule 1 to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, where appropriate
• section 6 of the Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years

To view the details of our Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) department and policies, please visit our SEND provision page.

Careers programme information

From September 2018, academies, free schools and colleges should publish information about the school’s careers programme. This information should relate to the delivery of careers guidance to year 8 to 13 pupils (12 to 18 year olds) and any requirement set out in your funding agreement to deliver careers guidance. For the current academic year, you should include:

• the name, email address and telephone number of the school’s Careers Leader
• a summary of the careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers may access information about the careers programme
• how the school measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme on pupils
• the date of the school’s next review of the information published

Read the statutory guidance for schools on careers guidance and access for education and training providers, or guidance for further education colleges and sixth-form colleges on careers guidance, for more information.

The statutory guidance for schools also contains further information about a policy statement that academies must publish to comply with Section 42B of the Education Act 1997, setting out the circumstances in which providers of technical education and apprenticeships will be given access to year 8 to 13 pupils.

To view details and policies related to careers programme information here at Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our Careers page. 

Equality objectives

As public bodies, academies and further education institutions must comply with the public sector equality duty in the Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011. This means you have to:

• publish details of how your school complies with the public sector equality duty - you should update this every year
• publish your school’s equality objectives - you should update this at least once every 4 years

You need to include details of:

• eliminating discrimination (see the Equality Act 2010)
• improving equality of opportunity for people with protected characteristics
• consulting and involving those affected by inequality in the decisions your school or college takes to promote equality and eliminate discrimination (affected people could include parents, pupils, staff and members of the local community)

To view the Equality Objectives of Joseph Leckie Academy, please view our Equality Policy.

Complaints policy

We recommend that all academies, free schools and colleges publish their complaints policy online.

If you’re an academy, free school, FE or sixth-form college, we recommend that you publish your whistleblowing policy online.

Academies and free schools must publish any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational needs about the support provided by the school.

To view our complaints policy, please visit our Policies page. 

Annual reports and accounts

Academies and free schools

You should publish the following financial information about your school:

• annual report
• annual audited accounts
• memorandum of association
• articles of association
• names of charity trustees and members
• funding agreement

To view our Annual reports and account documentation, please visit our Annual Reports and Accounts page. 

FE and sixth-form colleges

Colleges should publish their instruments and articles of government on their website.

They should also publish their annual members’ report and audited financial statement every year.

To view our Annual reports and account documentation, please visit our Annual Reports and Accounts page. 

Trustees’ information and duties

Academies and free schools

Academy trusts must publish accessible and up to date details of governance arrangements. Find more on what you need to publish about your academy and its board of trustees in the Academies financial handbook.

FE and sixth-form colleges

You should publish the following details about your college’s governing body:

• the governing body’s structure and responsibilities
• details of any committees
• the names of all governors, including the chair

You may wish to simply publish your governors’ handbook, which should include all this information.

To view the details of the Governing Body here at Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit the Governing Board page. 

Executive pay

You must publish how many employees have a gross annual salary and benefits of £100,000 or more. You should publish these figures in £10,000 increments. More details are included in paragraph 2.32 of the Academies financial handbook.

To view our Annual reports and account documentation, please visit our Annual Reports and Accounts page. 

Charging and remissions policies

Academies should publish their charging and remissions policies (this means when you cancel fees). The policies must include details of:

• the activities or cases where your school will charge pupils’ parents
• the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under your charging policy

To view our Charging and Remissions Policy, please visit the Policies page.

Values and ethos

Academies and colleges should publish a statement of their ethos and values.

To view the Values and ethos of Joseph Leckie Academy, please visit our Principals Welcome/Academy Mission Statement Page. 

Requests for copies

You should provide a paper copy of the information on your website if a parent requests one.

To request a paper copy of any information found on this website please visit the Contact Us page.