School Policies
We are proud to be the first school in the country to offer the full Cambridge International Programme—from Early Years to A Level. Our vibrant learning community nurtures curiosity, confidence, and ambition, empowering students to explore their potential and achieve globally recognized success.
Admissions
he Acorns Admissions Policy is designed to make the application process straightforward. The process, usually, begins with a request for information regarding the school, followed by a visit to Acorns. Once you decide to join the Acorns family, you have to complete the registration forms and submit it to the Finance Department, along with the fees.
This Policy includes sections such as visiting Acorns, implementation of admissions policy, admission criteria and fees.
Assessment
Assessments lie at the heart of the process of promoting a child’s learning. It provides a framework within which educational objectives may be set and child’s progress expressed and monitored. This should be done in partnership with learners and parents.
At Acorns, we believe that assessments provide the basis of informed teaching, helping learners to overcome difficulties and ensuring that teaching builds upon what has been learned. It is also how learners understand what they have achieved and what they need to work on.
This policy provides a framework for all examinations and assessment testing carried out at Acorns.
Behaviour and Motivation
Acorns is committed to educating learners as a whole; this means not only providing quality academics, but also teaching learners how to be respectful to others and themselves. Acorns aims to create a learning environment that is welcoming, safe, and secure for all learners. Therefore, the Behaviour and Motivation Policy is designed to support students through cooperation and communication between all stakeholders.
This Policy includes Early Childhood student behaviour expectations and how to achieve them through classroom management skills such as ‘thinking chair’; Primary students’ behaviour expectations and managing them through Teacher Expectations, Communication Between School and Home, Classroom Behaviour Chart, House Points and Behavioural IEPs; Secondary students’ behaviour expectations and managing through teacher expectations, encouraging positive behaviour, house points, sanctions, defining physical restraint. All these are accompanied with appropriate templates and formats used by Acorns staff members.
Child Protection and Safeguarding
We believe that all children have the right to be safe and protected in our society. At Acorns, we recognise that it is our responsibility to not only ensure the welfare of our students while on campus, but also when off campus. This policy outlines the measures we take to ensure our students emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing.
The aim of this policy is to outline the measures Acorns takes to ensure students are safeguarded from abuse and neglect, to define abuse and neglect with risk factors and symptoms, and to communicate the procedure for reporting abuse and neglect.
View our websites “Safeguarding” tab for more information.
Curriculum
We offer an inquiry-driven, inclusive, and rigorous curriculum that fosters the development of the whole child, intellectually, emotionally, socially, and physically. Grounded in the IB philosophy and enriched by local and global perspectives, our curriculum supports intercultural understanding, curiosity, agency, and lifelong learning. It emphasises conceptual understanding, skill development, ethical action, and learner well-being across all programmes.
Field Trip and Excursion
Acorns believes that field trips and outdoor excursions enhance students’ learning by providing opportunities for students to participate in curriculum-related activities outside the normal school setting. School excursions are well-planned curriculum-related activities that aim to maximise students’ learning experiences outside of the classroom. This policy includes content such as responsibility of Management, process and implementation of trips, including all the necessary templates such as risk assessment and consent forms etc. used by Acorns staff.
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Health, Safety & Security
Acorns aims to provide a safe working and learning environment, by ensuring a systematic approach to the identification of risks and the allocation of resources to control them. The Health Policy includes health-related matters such as medical details, first aid, Incontinence, cleanliness at school. Safety Policy includes evacuation and non-evacuation procedures. Though these two are not published due to confidentiality purposes, a clear lay-out plan is made available to all staff members who also sensitise children on a regular basis, along with standard drills (evacuation drills three times a year and non-evacuation once a year) taking place at school on a regular basis. The Security Policy includes components like entering and exiting campus, change in personal details to be communicated to school and its procedure, Exit IDs, school bus and security guards, etc.
