We process personal information relating to our pupils and may receive information about them from their previous school or college, local authority, the Department for Education (DfE) and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal data to:

• support our pupils’ learning
• monitor and report on their progress
• provide appropriate pastoral care; and
• assess the quality of our services

Information about our pupils that we hold will include their contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information, any exclusion information, where they go after they leave us and personal characteristics such as their ethnic group, any special educational needs they may have as well as relevant medical information.

The School has a duty of care to all of their pupils, and this care comes into being everyday at the start of the school day and whilst the pupil is on school premises.  In order to assist with this duty this school has made the decision to use a text messaging service to communicate more easily on a number of subjects involving their children, such as First Day Absence, Emergency Closure, Reminders of Holidays and Events.

To inform parents or designated carers of important issues the Text Messaging Service will send a standard text message to the designated mobile phone number, shown as Priority 1 contact.  Apart from the contact telephone number and the pupil’s first name, no other personal data will be retained by the Texting Company.

A parent/guardian can ask that no information apart from their child’s name, address and date of birth be passed to Somerset County Council by informing the school office. This right is transferred to the child once he/she reaches the age 16. For more information about services for young people, please go to our local authority website: Local Authority (Somerset County Council).

We will not give information about you to anyone without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to.

We are required, by law, to pass certain information about our pupils to our local authority (LA) and the Department for Education (DfE).

If you need more information about how our local authority and/or DfE collect and use your information, please visit:

• our Local Authority, Somerset County Council or
• the DfE website at https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data

If you want to receive a copy of the information about you that we hold, please contact the School Office.