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    • Karate grading Dec 2016
    • Amazing Anti-bullying Conference
    • Y5 visit to Birkenhead Park School (BHS)
    • We are an Anti-bullying Super School
    • Meet our New School Council for 2016/2017
    • Y5 visit to Birkenhead Park School (BHS)
    • The new and improved EYFS!!
    • July 2016 - Year 6 Leavers Assembly
    • July 2016 - Our Leavers Assembly
    • Reading together Y1 and Y6 Sept 2016
    • Cup of Kindness April 2016
    • Year 2's end of year assembly
    • Magical Movie Afternoon April 2016
    • Years 1 & 2 - Underwater Street July 2016
    • Our Character Award April 2016
    • PORTLAND'S GOT TALENT
    • Year 1's class assembly - Pirates! - July 2016
    • Police dogs and Merseyrail visit for Attendance Week - Oct 2016
    • Year 6 Geography Trip to Gillmoss Recycling Centre
    • PORTLAND'S GOT TALENT
    • Williamson Art Gallery - Year 1 March 2016
    • Children In Need 2015
    • Multicultural Day
    • Mayor's Visit to Portland 2015
    • Netball Match Parents V Teachers
    • Y6 Trip to New Brighton
    • Y5 Art Day
    • EYFS trip to St James' Library
    • Attendance Week 2015
    • World Book Day - International Theme 2015
    • EYFS 2 at Tam O'Shanter Farm
    • Year 4 Engineers!
    • Anti-Bullying Week 2015
    • EYFS 2 at Tam O'Shanter Farm
    • Busy Y5, poetry, dance, Ukulele
    • EYFS Spring 2015
    • Year 5 - Guest Speakers
    • Year 3 volcanoes
    • World Book Day 2016
    • Y5/6 Professor Fluffy Day in Liverpool University
    • CLC - Mother's Day presents 2016
    • Science morning in KS1
    • Mayor Of Wirral's Inter School Quiz ( Y6) 2015
    • Y5 Investigating Bread in DT
    • Baubles - Christmas 2015 Years 1 and 2
    • Healthy Eating Design Winners!!
    • J. Carragher Football Prizes
    • Edsential @ Civic Hall 4th Feb
    • Santa in Year 1 2015
    • Y6 Heswall Rotary Club
    • Christmas Fair 2015
    • Year 4 & 5 Razzle Dazzle
    • Tranmere Rovers Year 5 and 6
    • Pick and Mix Theatre
    • Year 1 and 2 at the Multi Cultural Market Place
    • Year 6 Forensic Science
    • Year 4 and 5 Football v Bidston Village
    • Kinetic Theatre -Sccience
    • The Bunsen Tower Mystery
    • Years 1 and 4 Junior Chef 2015
    • Y6
    • Junior Chefs' Academy 2015. World Theme- Spain
    • EYFS 2 highlights
    • Year 2 Assembly 2015
    • Key Stage 2 Sports Day 2015
    • EYFS 2 sports day
    • Life Van 2015
    • EYFS trip to Greenacres Animal Park
    • Attendance Week 2015 years 3 and 4
    • Keeping Moving for Charity Friday 3rd July 2015
    • Cup of Kindness
    • Junior Chef July 2015 - Celebrating America!
    • The Priory Abseil 2015
    • Gymnastics Competition July 2015
    • Charity Event - Sponsored Sport Activities
    • EYFS 2 trip to St James Library
    • Y6 CLC Trip Flowol
    • EYFS gymnastics
    • Cookery in EYFS
    • EYFS Summer 2015
    • Tag Rugby
    • Year 5 Birkenhead Park School visit May 18 2015
    • Y6 Trampolining Lessons
    • Year 3 4 5 football v The Priory
    • Year 2 making kites at the CLC
    • Y6 & Travel Safety with the Police
    • Year 4 Torches
    • Rainforests
    • St George's Day in Y1 2015
    • Easter Egg Competition 2015
    • Year 3 Trebuchets
    • Active Maths-Year 3
    • Y6 Science at the CLC 2015
    • Year 2 Our T-shirts
    • Head Girl & Head Boy
    • Y6 Tudor Houses
    • Year 2 on World Book Day
    • Y6 Barnstondale 2014
    • Year 2 Lighthouses
    • Y6 CLC Vikings
    • Y1 Science caterpillars!
    • keep fit
    • Christmas in EYFS
    • Year 1 and Santa 2014
    • Year 3 volcanoes
    • KS2 Christmas Performance 2014. Gold Frankincense and Mirth!
    • Prickly Hay 2014 Christmas Performance
    • Y6 Christmas Craft Business Enterprize
    • Year 1 2014 - Our Poppy Wreaths
    • Children In Need 2014
    • Y6 Tranmere Journalistic Writing Project
    • Year 4 CLC JIgsaws
    • Year 2 made cars at the CLC
    • Year 1 are Meerkat making 2014!
    • Year 1 at the CLC Halloween Candle making 2014
    • EYFS 2 Messy Play
    • Year 1 Remembrance Sunday - Poppy Wreaths
    • EYFS Outdoor play
    • Year 1 with Mrs Beedles 2014
    • Year 1 - Our Class 2014
    • Year 1 Music with Mrs Shaw 2014
    • Year five CLC visit November 20th
    • Year 2 celebrate Children in Need
    • Year 2 trip to West Wirral Works
    • Guitar Lessons
    • Daresbury Laboratories Year Five visit
    • Year 2 visit Tam O'Shanter's Farm
    • The Space Ambassador's visit to Year Five.
    • Professor Newsam's visit to Year Five
    • Year five spring visit to CLC - making torches
    • Year two making jigsaws at the CLC
    • Year Five visit Oldershaw Academy to do science
    • Victorian School Day
    • Easter Egg competitions 2014
    • Year 6 CLC ICT Flowol
    • Year 3 CLC Trip
    • Y6 Climbing Wall UAB
    • Year 2 CLC Trip
    • Year 3 Chester visit
    • Rounders with Year 3 and 6
    • Barnstondale
    • Y6 Street Dance
    • Year 2/3 transition morning
    • Year 1 - Our Trip to Tesco
    • Years 3 and 4 Architecture Workshops
    • Year 1 and the RNLI.
    • F1 and the Fire Engine
    • Year 3 Sikh Gurdwara
    • Y6 Won the Attendance Week with 100% and went to the park and played
    • Year 3 World War 2 street party
    • Karate Grading to Red belt. - July 2014
    • Tranmere Training Session
    • Mayor and Mayoress Visit
  • Five Principles of Assessment
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    • PE funding
  • Extra curricular clubs
    • Karate
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    • Revision
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    • Climbing Wall
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    • Prospectus
    • School Meals - Udated Autumn Term Menus
    • Early Years Foundation Stage Welcome Pack
    • DFE Website
    • School Standards
    • Admission Arrangements
    • Reading & Phonics
    • Useful Information
  • Gallery
    • Key Stage 2 Sports Day 2017
    • World Book Day 2017
    • Remembrance Day with Year 1 - Nov 2016
    • Halloween Disco Nov 2016
    • Year 1 celebrating the Queen's 90th Birthday
    • Mrs Walkers Retirement Assembly
    • Year % Poetry
    • Year 1 enjoying Phonics May 2016
    • Easter at the Baptist Church March 2016
    • Y6 class assembly
    • Karate grading Dec 2016
    • Amazing Anti-bullying Conference
    • Y5 visit to Birkenhead Park School (BHS)
    • We are an Anti-bullying Super School
    • Meet our New School Council for 2016/2017
    • Y5 visit to Birkenhead Park School (BHS)
    • The new and improved EYFS!!
    • July 2016 - Year 6 Leavers Assembly
    • July 2016 - Our Leavers Assembly
    • Reading together Y1 and Y6 Sept 2016
    • Cup of Kindness April 2016
    • Year 2's end of year assembly
    • Magical Movie Afternoon April 2016
    • Years 1 & 2 - Underwater Street July 2016
    • Our Character Award April 2016
    • PORTLAND'S GOT TALENT
    • Year 1's class assembly - Pirates! - July 2016
    • Police dogs and Merseyrail visit for Attendance Week - Oct 2016
    • Year 6 Geography Trip to Gillmoss Recycling Centre
    • PORTLAND'S GOT TALENT
    • Williamson Art Gallery - Year 1 March 2016
    • Children In Need 2015
    • Multicultural Day
    • Mayor's Visit to Portland 2015
    • Netball Match Parents V Teachers
    • Y6 Trip to New Brighton
    • Y5 Art Day
    • EYFS trip to St James' Library
    • Attendance Week 2015
    • World Book Day - International Theme 2015
    • EYFS 2 at Tam O'Shanter Farm
    • Year 4 Engineers!
    • Anti-Bullying Week 2015
    • EYFS 2 at Tam O'Shanter Farm
    • Busy Y5, poetry, dance, Ukulele
    • EYFS Spring 2015
    • Year 5 - Guest Speakers
    • Year 3 volcanoes
    • World Book Day 2016
    • Y5/6 Professor Fluffy Day in Liverpool University
    • CLC - Mother's Day presents 2016
    • Science morning in KS1
    • Mayor Of Wirral's Inter School Quiz ( Y6) 2015
    • Y5 Investigating Bread in DT
    • Baubles - Christmas 2015 Years 1 and 2
    • Healthy Eating Design Winners!!
    • J. Carragher Football Prizes
    • Edsential @ Civic Hall 4th Feb
    • Santa in Year 1 2015
    • Y6 Heswall Rotary Club
    • Christmas Fair 2015
    • Year 4 & 5 Razzle Dazzle
    • Tranmere Rovers Year 5 and 6
    • Pick and Mix Theatre
    • Year 1 and 2 at the Multi Cultural Market Place
    • Year 6 Forensic Science
    • Year 4 and 5 Football v Bidston Village
    • Kinetic Theatre -Sccience
    • The Bunsen Tower Mystery
    • Years 1 and 4 Junior Chef 2015
    • Y6
    • Junior Chefs' Academy 2015. World Theme- Spain
    • EYFS 2 highlights
    • Year 2 Assembly 2015
    • Key Stage 2 Sports Day 2015
    • EYFS 2 sports day
    • Life Van 2015
    • EYFS trip to Greenacres Animal Park
    • Attendance Week 2015 years 3 and 4
    • Keeping Moving for Charity Friday 3rd July 2015
    • Cup of Kindness
    • Junior Chef July 2015 - Celebrating America!
    • The Priory Abseil 2015
    • Gymnastics Competition July 2015
    • Charity Event - Sponsored Sport Activities
    • EYFS 2 trip to St James Library
    • Y6 CLC Trip Flowol
    • EYFS gymnastics
    • Cookery in EYFS
    • EYFS Summer 2015
    • Tag Rugby
    • Year 5 Birkenhead Park School visit May 18 2015
    • Y6 Trampolining Lessons
    • Year 3 4 5 football v The Priory
    • Year 2 making kites at the CLC
    • Y6 & Travel Safety with the Police
    • Year 4 Torches
    • Rainforests
    • St George's Day in Y1 2015
    • Easter Egg Competition 2015
    • Year 3 Trebuchets
    • Active Maths-Year 3
    • Y6 Science at the CLC 2015
    • Year 2 Our T-shirts
    • Head Girl & Head Boy
    • Y6 Tudor Houses
    • Year 2 on World Book Day
    • Y6 Barnstondale 2014
    • Year 2 Lighthouses
    • Y6 CLC Vikings
    • Y1 Science caterpillars!
    • keep fit
    • Christmas in EYFS
    • Year 1 and Santa 2014
    • Year 3 volcanoes
    • KS2 Christmas Performance 2014. Gold Frankincense and Mirth!
    • Prickly Hay 2014 Christmas Performance
    • Y6 Christmas Craft Business Enterprize
    • Year 1 2014 - Our Poppy Wreaths
    • Children In Need 2014
    • Y6 Tranmere Journalistic Writing Project
    • Year 4 CLC JIgsaws
    • Year 2 made cars at the CLC
    • Year 1 are Meerkat making 2014!
    • Year 1 at the CLC Halloween Candle making 2014
    • EYFS 2 Messy Play
    • Year 1 Remembrance Sunday - Poppy Wreaths
    • EYFS Outdoor play
    • Year 1 with Mrs Beedles 2014
    • Year 1 - Our Class 2014
    • Year 1 Music with Mrs Shaw 2014
    • Year five CLC visit November 20th
    • Year 2 celebrate Children in Need
    • Year 2 trip to West Wirral Works
    • Guitar Lessons
    • Daresbury Laboratories Year Five visit
    • Year 2 visit Tam O'Shanter's Farm
    • The Space Ambassador's visit to Year Five.
    • Professor Newsam's visit to Year Five
    • Year five spring visit to CLC - making torches
    • Year two making jigsaws at the CLC
    • Year Five visit Oldershaw Academy to do science
    • Victorian School Day
    • Easter Egg competitions 2014
    • Year 6 CLC ICT Flowol
    • Year 3 CLC Trip
    • Y6 Climbing Wall UAB
    • Year 2 CLC Trip
    • Year 3 Chester visit
    • Rounders with Year 3 and 6
    • Barnstondale
    • Y6 Street Dance
    • Year 2/3 transition morning
    • Year 1 - Our Trip to Tesco
    • Years 3 and 4 Architecture Workshops
    • Year 1 and the RNLI.
    • F1 and the Fire Engine
    • Year 3 Sikh Gurdwara
    • Y6 Won the Attendance Week with 100% and went to the park and played
    • Year 3 World War 2 street party
    • Karate Grading to Red belt. - July 2014
    • Tranmere Training Session
    • Mayor and Mayoress Visit
  • Five Principles of Assessment
    • Five Principles of Assessment
  • PE and School Sports
    • PE funding
  • Extra curricular clubs
    • Karate
    • Football
    • Revision
    • Eco Schools
    • Climbing Wall
    • Writing Club
    • Rounders
    • Drama
    • STUFF- School Magazine
    • Let's Get Cooking
    • Dance Club
    • Christmas Craft Club
    • Gymnastics Club
    • Homework
    • Book club
  • Calendar
  • Safeguarding Links
    • Safeguarding Links
  • Governors
    • The Governing Body
  • Curriculum Rationale
  • Curriculum Content
    • Whole School Curriculum Overviews 2017/2018
    • EYFS
    • English
    • Mathematics
    • Science
    • History/Geography
    • Religious Education
    • PE
    • Computing
    • Design Technology
    • Art
    • Music
    • Phonics
    • PSHRE
    • MFL - Spanish
  • Data Dash Board
    • Data Dash Board
  • Fund Raising
    • Comic Relief - REd Nose Day 2017
    • Children In Need - Nov 2016
    • Wirral Food Bank 2016
    • Wirral Schools Charity Abseil 2016
    • Children In Need 2015
    • Wirral Schools Charity Abseil 2015
    • Children In Need 2014
    • RNLI
  • Send information in Wirral schools.
    • SEND information in Wirral schools'.
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Part 1: Personal information and privacy

  1. Introduction
    1. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information on the domain or a sub-domain of eschools.co.uk
    2. We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit the domain or sub-domain of eschools.co.uk. By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
  2. Collecting personal information
    1. We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
      1. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including, your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths)
      2. information that you provide to us when registering with our website
      3. information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including, your name and email address)
      4. information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including, your username and the content of your posts)
      5. information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including, the communication content and meta data associated with the communication)
      6. any other personal information that you choose to send to us
    2. Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
  3. Using your personal information
    1. Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
    2. We may use your personal information to:
      1. administer our website
      2. personalise our website for you
      3. enable your use of the services available on our website
      4. send you non-marketing commercial communications
      5. send you email notifications that you have specifically requested
      6. send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter)
      7. send you marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications)
      8. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information)
      9. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website
      10. keep our website secure and prevent fraud
    3. If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
    4. Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
    5. We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
  4. Disclosing personal information
    1. We may disclose your personal information to, any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
    2. We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
    3. We may disclose your personal information:
      1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
      2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
      3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
      4. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
    4. Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
  5. International data transfers
    1. Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
    2. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
  6. Retaining personal information
    1. This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
    2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
    3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
      1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
      2. if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
      3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
  7. Security of your personal information
    1. We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
    2. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
    3. You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
  8. Amendments
    1. We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
    2. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
  9. Your rights
    1. You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.
    2. We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
    3. You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
    4. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
  10. Third party websites
    1. Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
    2. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
  11. Updating information
    1. Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Part 2: Cookies

  1. About cookies
    1. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
    2. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
    3. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
    4. Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
  2. Our cookies
    1. We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.
    2. The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
      1. we use performance cookies on our website. These cookies enable the collection of information about how visitors use our website, including which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that individually identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. It is only used to improve how eSchools functions and performs.
      2. we use functional cookies on our website to allow eschools.co.uk to remember information you have entered or choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
      3. We use third-party service providers to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet. These service providers may collect your IP address and non-personally identifiable information about your visits to our site in order to serve eSchools ads while you are visiting other websites. Such non-personally identifiable information is anonymous and does not include your name, address, email address or other personal information, however your IP address may be collected. The anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag (also known as cookies and action tags), which is industry-standard technology used by most major websites.
  3. Analytics cookies
    1. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.
    2. Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
    3. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
    4. Our analytics service provider's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
  4. Third party cookies
    1. Our Site may contain links to other websites, share buttons (e.g. Twitter) or Facebook “Like” buttons. These other websites, services and applications may set their own cookies on users’ computers, collect data or solicit personal information. You should refer to any privacy policies found on such websites, services and applications to understand how your information may be collected and used.
  5. Blocking cookies
    1. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
      1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
      2. in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
      3. in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
    2. Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
    3. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
  6. Deleting cookies
    1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
      1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
      2. in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and
      3. in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".
    2. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.