Ton Infants' School
Happy Faces, Kind Hearts, Enquiring Minds
Welcome
Our Links with the Community
Our school has many links with the local community, the business community, the education community and the global community.
Our Local Community.
The school has a good relationship with parents/carers and families and the local community. It strives to maintain close contact and communication with all these stake holders. Parents/carers and families are welcomed into the school through our Family Voice Committee and our Friends of the School group and encouraged to feed back about school life. Parents/carers and families in the local community are invited into school to help with readers, sewing, building, forest school activities etc. At the school we run the Square Mile Initiative, where parents/carers and families sign a general consent at the beginning of the year allowing the staff to take pupils out and about around the community within one square mile of the school. Risk assessments have been in place and are followed to ensure health and safety. The children visit the local church, park, train station, grocers, post office, pet shop, a residential home on a regular basis. We also welcome many visitors from the community such as the Community Police Officer, Father Haydn, the Fire Service, PONT, Super Attender and others. In addition to this we offer family groups such as our Baby Group and have two playgroups close to the school, Ton Tots and Ton Tiddlywinks. These also run after school care for working families. The school also has a Breakfast Club that children can attend if you need to get to work earlier.
Our Business Community.
As part of the daily running of the school we use many local businesses to provide us with their goods or services. We purchase fruit from our local grocers, building supplies from the local building yard, flowers from the florist and first aid supplies from the chemist. If something is unavailable locally we endeavour to use Welsh businesses. We hold our Christmas production in our local theatre in Ton Pentre, The Phoenix, and our annual sports day in our local sports centre or on our local football field. We also use the local Community Centre for our school prom and Christmas party and the local Football Club for our fundraising discos.
An example of the children working with a local business on a business venture is when they worked in partnership with the local pound shop to provide pooper scoopers to eradicate dog mess around the locality.
Our Education Community.
We have very close links with the local primary and secondary schools, colleges and training centres, from which we accept many students on placement. We have a strong link with the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff and have trained many student teachers. We also have had many past pupils returning to the school on a voluntary basis, either to run after school sessions, such as dance, or to join after school club, such as Welsh Club. We work closely with the Junior School to provide a smooth transition for our children into Year 3 and we have strong links with our playgroups to ensure a smooth transition into our school.
The school has many visitors from many other local schools as we are well known in the area for our outstanding Foundation Learning practice and our Outdoor Learning activities.
Our Global Community.
The children learn about Health and Wellbeing, Relationships and other Religions, Values and Beliefs through the new curriculum. The children have access to many resources, such as dolls and books, which reflect on and explain about different cultures and traditions. We are linked to Little Angels Primary in Babutu, Uganda, and write or send items to our friends regularly. They write to us in return. This is co-ordinated by Pont, a registered charity.