Below, you will find a copy of each policy at Riversdale Primary School. These are reviewed and updated regularly by the Senior Leadership Team and school Governors. For the SEND Policy, please refer to the SEND page here.
Should you have any questions regarding these, or would like a paper copy provided, please feel free to contact us.
The school's Accessibility Plan is written in line with the Equality Act 2010 and sets out how Riversdale Primary School continues to improve access to education for disabled pupils. It focuses on three key areas: increasing participation in the curriculum, enhancing the physical environment of the school, and ensuring that information is accessible to all pupils and families.
For further detail, you can access our Accessibility Plan here.
Riversdale Primary School is a community school maintained by Wandsworth Local Authority. As such, Wandsworth Local Authority is the admissions authority and is responsible for determining and administering the school’s admissions arrangements from Reception and above.
For further detail, you can access our Admissions policy here.
For further detail about our Nursery Admissions, you can access our Nursery Admissions policy here.
This policy has been written to set out Riversdale Primary School's approach to assessing pupils’ attainment across the curriculum. This policy should be read alongside both our Teaching & Learning and Marking & Feedback policies.
For further detail, you can access our Assessment policy here.
Regular school attendance is essential for pupils to achieve their full potential and to benefit fully from the educational opportunities available to them.
Riversdale Primary School is committed to promoting high levels of attendance and punctuality for all pupils. We believe that children learn best when they attend school regularly, arrive on time and are ready to engage in learning.
For further detail, you can access our Attendance policy here.
Riversdale Primary School is committed to creating a safe, respectful and orderly environment in which all pupils can learn and thrive.
Positive behaviour underpins effective teaching and learning. The school expects high standards of behaviour from all members of the school community and works in partnership with pupils and families to promote these expectations.
For further detail, you can access our Behaviour & Anti-Bullying policy here.
This policy sets out the circumstances in which Riversdale Primary School may request voluntary contributions, make charges, or remit charges for school activities and related provision. It is intended to ensure clarity, fairness, equality of opportunity and compliance with the law.
For further detail, you can access our Charging & Remissions policy here.
Whilst we are very proud of our school, we know that no one gets things right all of the time. We are committed to working with you to provide the absolute best for all of our children and this includes responding quickly and proportionately to concerns that you raise. This policy sets out what the school will do if you wish to raise that concern informally, or to make a formal complaint.
For further detail, you can access our Complaints policy here.
Riversdale Primary School is committed to protecting the personal data and confidential information of pupils, staff, parents, governors and members of the wider school community.
The school recognises the importance of handling information lawfully, securely and transparently. Personal data is processed in order to support teaching and learning, safeguard pupils, manage the workforce and fulfil statutory responsibilities.
For further detail, you can access our Data Protection & Information Security policy here.
The policy outlines the commitment of the staff and Governors to promote equality. This involves tackling the barriers which could lead to unequal outcomes so that there is equality of access and the diversity within the school community is celebrated and valued. Read more.
Please also see our 2025-2028 Equality Information and Objectives here.
Riversdale Primary School is committed to ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all pupils, staff and visitors. Appropriate arrangements are in place to provide first aid and to support pupils who require medication during the school day.
The school undertakes regular assessments of its first aid needs, taking into account the size of the school, the nature of its activities, the age of pupils and the specific needs of the school community. This ensures that adequate numbers of trained staff, appropriate equipment and clear procedures are in place to respond effectively to accidents, injuries or medical emergencies.
For further detail, you can access our First Aid and Medicines policy here.
All public authorities, including schools, are required under the Freedom of Information Act to adopt a publication scheme that has been approved by the Information Commissioner.
The school has adopted the ICO’s model scheme Please see this here.
The school also publishes, as required, a publication scheme which specifies:
You can find the school's publication scheme here.
We are committed to ensuring that the children in our care grow into healthy adults, this being the first of the five principal requirements of the Children Act 2004 ('Every Child Matters'). Find out more.
At Riversdale Primary School, we consider home learning to be any activity that pupils do outside the normal school day that contributes to their learning, in response to guidance from the school. This encompasses a whole variety of activities instigated by either teachers and/or parents/carers to support the children's learning. Read more.
Our school aims to be an inclusive school. We actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude individual pupils, or groups of pupils. This means that equality of opportunity must be a reality for our children. Read more
We believe feedback and marking should be timely and constructive for every child. We practice an inclusive education where we believe in enabling all pupils to fully participate in their progress. We focus on success and improvement needs. We mark "in the moment" against learning intentions: enabling children to become reflective learners and helping them to close the gap between current and desired performance. More information can be found here.
Riversdale takes a holistic view of child development and recognises that emotional wellbeing and mental health cannot be separated from physical health and the context of the child’s environment, family and unique personality. We are committed to supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of our pupils and staff and we know that everyone experiences life challenges that can make us vulnerable and at times, anyone may need additional emotional support. You can read our policy by clicking here.
Online safety is an integral part of safeguarding and requires a whole school, cross-curricular approach and collaboration between key school leads. Accordingly, this policy is written in line with ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ 2025 (KCSIE), ‘Teaching Online Safety in Schools’, statutory RSHE guidance and other statutory documents. It is cross-curricular (with relevance beyond Relationships, Sex and Health Education and Computing) and designed to sit alongside the school’s statutory Child Protection & Safeguarding Policy. Any issues and concerns with online safety WILL always follow the school’s safeguarding and child protection procedures.
For more information, you can read the policy here.
To comply with the UK GDPR, the school has developed privacy notices which state what data is held about our pupils, staff and wider school community, the legal basis by which this information is held and the purpose behind it. You can find the most relevant Pupil and Parent/Carer Privacy Notice below:
At Riversdale, relationships education is underpinned by the ethos and values of our school (Respect, individuality, value, entrust, reflect, share, democracy, aspire, love, empathy). Our vision is to create a safe, positive and stimulating environment in which all members of the school community learn and grow in confidence, knowledge and skills.
Through our RHW (Relationships, Helath and Wellbeing) programme we aim to provide children with the knowledge, skills and understanding they need to lead confident, healthy, independent lives and to become informed, active and responsible citizens. In providing children with an understanding of healthy and respectful relationships and appropriate boundaries, we consider effective RHW to be a fundamental part of our approach to supporting pupils to grow into confident, caring, responsible and respectful young citizens.
For more information, you can find our RHW policy on the relevant curriculum page here.
The Governors and staff of Riversdale Primary school fully recognise the responsibilities and duty placed upon them to have arrangements to safeguard and promote the welfare of all pupils at the school. We recognise that all staff, including volunteers, have a full and active part to play in protecting pupils from harm. This document, written by Wandsworth Local Authority for Riversdale Primary School, concentrates on the core child protection work which is part of Safeguarding Children. Read more.
Please see the Appendices to the above policy here.
In relation to safeguarding and child protection, please see our Child-on-Child abuse policy here.
Our overall Statement of Pupil Safety can also be found here.
It is our school policy that all children wear school uniform when attending school, and when participating in a school organised event outside normal school hours. School uniform is part of the school ethos and in coming to Riversdale parents agree to support our policy. For this reason it is not expensive. If parents do have any difficulties then do contact the school for support and guidance. For more information, please read our policy.
Riversdale Primary School is committed to maintaining a safe, orderly and inclusive learning environment in which all pupils can achieve and thrive.
Positive behaviour underpins effective teaching and learning. The vast majority of behaviour concerns are addressed through the school’s Behaviour and Anti-Bullying Policy and through supportive pastoral approaches.
However, in exceptional circumstances, the Headteacher may determine that a suspension or permanent exclusion is necessary.
For further detail, you can access our Suspensions & Exclusons policy here.
Across the school, the expectation is that all pupils are provided with high quality learning experiences that lead to consistently high levels of achievement for all pupils. As such, we recognise that continued and sustained improvement in pupil outcomes is dependent upon improving the quality of teaching and learning that is taking place on a daily basis. To ensure that the teachers in the school become the most effective practitioners they can be the school’s teaching and learning policies and practices use principles established from evidence-based research, cognitive science and experience.
To find out more read our policy here.
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