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Community Code

The Bramcote Lorne Community Code ensures the health, safety and happiness of every member of our school community.

The two main principles of our Community Code are:

1. Everyone at Bramcote Lorne is treated with respect and seeks to work in a calm, safe and clean environment.

2. Everyone is expected to enjoy and make good use of their time at school.

  • All pupils should be gentle, polite and well-mannered.
  • Pupils are expected to work to the best of their ability and share in the school’s achievements.
  • Pupils are expected to show respect for the community of Bramcote Lorne and be respectful to all adults and other pupils.
  • Pupils should be kind, honest, responsible and helpful.
  • Pupils should respect the feelings and opinions of others.
  • Pupils should be fully prepared for lessons. They should arrive punctually for lessons, work sensibly in the classroom and complete the work that is required to the very best of their ability.
  • Pupils should look to respect their environment and the property within it.
  • Pupils should take responsibility for their belongings and for their actions in school.

Chewing Gum

There is a complete ban on chewing gum at all times.

Mobile Phones

Day pupils should not bring mobile phones to school at any time. Boarders may bring mobiles to school and hand them in to the house parents for safe keeping. They are allowed to use them at specified times during the evenings.

Care of Property and Valuables

All personal property and school uniform should be clearly marked with your name. Items of clothing should not be borrowed at any time. Pupils are advised not to bring expensive personal items to school.

Bullying

Bullying is considered to be any act that deliberately causes pain, unhappiness, humiliation or suffering to another pupil.

Bullying in any form is not tolerated at Bramcote Lorne. We have a clear anti-bullying policy and every member of the community has a responsibility to uphold it. All pupils have the right to enjoy their time at school in an atmosphere of emotional and physical security. Pupils are encouraged to talk to an adult at any time about bullying in the knowledge that intervention will be designed to bring bullying to an end without damaging the peer group relationships of pupils.

Uniform and Appearance

Pupils are encouraged to wear their school uniform with pride, ensuring that it is clean and tidy, and should look tidy and smart at all times. Shirts should always be tucked in and top buttons done up. Girls should wear sensible low-heeled shoes. Pupils are encouraged to keep their shoes polished.

Jewellery

Girls are allowed to wear one pair of plain gold or silver ear studs in pierced ear lobes. Boys are not allowed to wear earrings in school. Watches may be worn but no other jewellery is permitted.

Make-up

Make-up or nail varnish should not be worn to school.

Hair

In the interests of health and safety hair, should be kept clean and tidy and should not hang over the face. Long hair should be tied back securely. It should be of a conservative style with no extremes of fashion.

Internet Use

The Internet is provided for pupils to conduct research and broaden learning opportunities. Access represents a privilege and not a right and with that comes personal responsibility. Pupils must comply with school standards.

In school, the following are not permitted:

  • Accessing the Internet without the permission of a member of staff.
  • Receiving, sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures
  • Using obscene language
  • Harassing, insulting or attacking others
  • Using the passwords of others
  • Trespassing in the folders, work or files of other pupils.

Bounds

  • No pupil may leave the school grounds without an authorised adult and being signed out in the book outside the school office
  • No pupil may enter the scrubland near the river or go outside the boundaries of the school playing fields without an adult.
  • No pupil may enter the ‘workshop area’ behind the school maintenance hut or go behind the Pre-Prep buildings.
  • No pupil may enter the Design Technology or Science rooms without the presence of an adult
  • No pupil may enter the staffroom, gardens of members of staff, kitchens or school offices without the permission of a member of staff.