Privacy Notice for pupils

Privacy Notice for pupils in schools

Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

We Branksome Heath Middle School, are the Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect information from you, and may receive information about you from your previous school and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal data and use it to:

support your teaching and learning;
monitor and report on your progress;
provide appropriate pastoral care, and
assess how well your school is doing.

This information includes your contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information (1), and personal characteristics such as ethnic group, special educational needs and any relevant medical information.

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

We are required by law to pass some of your information to the Local Authority (LA), and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

If you want to see a copy of the information we hold and share about you then please contact the school on 01202 747966

If you require more information about how the LA and/or DCSF store and use this data please go to the following websites:

http://www.boroughofpoole.com/privacynotices and

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/ims/datamanagement/privacynotices/pupilsdata/

http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/management/ims/datamanagement/privacynotices/pupilsdata/thirdpartyorgs/

If you are unable to access these websites, please contact the school on 01202 747966 or the DCSF as follows:

Public Communications Unit
Department for Education
Sanctuary Buildings
Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
website: www.education.gov.uk
email:
tel: 0870 000 2288.

Wendy Francis
CYPSSQI
Borough of Poole
Civic Centre
Poole
Dorset
BH15 2RU
01202 262743