statutory information

SCHOOL CONTACT DETAILS
  • Postal Address
  • On the Home page footer here and on the Contact page here
  • Telephone Number
  • On the Home page footer here and on the Contact page here
  • Name of person who deals with queries from parents and carers and the public
  • Contact us on the office email or via the Contact page here
  • Name of the Head Teacher
  • Dr M J Airey
  • Name and contact details of the chair of the governing board
  • Mr I Barnett. They can be contacted via the school office email .
  • Name and details of your special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (SENCO)
  • Mr J Johnson SENCo and Head of SEN Faculty
School opening hours
  • Official start time of the compulsory school day
  • Official end time of the compulsory school day
  • Total time this amounts to in a typical week including breaks but not after school activities
    • Official start time of the compulsory school day - 8.35am
    • Official end time of the compulsory school day - 3.10pm
    • Total time this amounts to in a typical week including breaks but not after school activities - 6 hours 35 mins
    TRUST INFORMATION
    • Contact details of your academy trust and a link to its website
    • Impact Multi Academy Trust,
      Hawksbrook Lane,
      Beckenham,
      Kent,
      BR3 3BE
      Tel: 020 8639 5205
      www.imat.uk
    The following details for your trust:
  • Registered name of the academy trust
  • Company number of the trust
  • Registered office address of the trust
  • Part of the UK the trust is registered, i.e. ‘England and Wales’
    • This information can be found here
    ADDITIONAL SCHOOL INFORMATION
    • Statement of ethos and values
    • This information can be found here on Our vision for learning page
    • A link to, or copy of, your most recent Ofsted report
    • This report can be viewed here or on the Ofsted website here here
    • A link to the school and college performance measures website and your school’s performance measures page
    • The link to the school and college performance measures website is here

    • A modern slavery act statement
    • This document is available here on the Trust website.
    • Details of the amount of time off taken by staff who are union officials to carry out their union duties
    • Two Days
    EQUALITY INFORMATION
    • Equality objectives
    • This information can be found here on Our vision for learning page
    • Details of how you comply with the public sector equality duty
    • This report can be viewed here or on the Ofsted website here
    • Gender pay gap information
    • Prior to 1 April 2025 Darrick Wood School were not required to publish this information.

    • For Impact Multi Academy Trust this document can be found on the Trust website here
    POLICIES
    • Behaviour policy, including anti-bullying strategy
    • Charging and remissions policy
    • This policy can be found here.
    • Complaints policy (including any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational needs (SEN) about the support provided by the school)
    • The Trust policy and can be found here in the Governance & Complaints policies section of the Trust website

    • The School Complaints policy can be found here.
    • Whistle-blowing policy
    • This policy is a Trust policy and can be found here in the HR policies section of the Trust website.
    • Our relationships education, or relationships and sex education (RSE), policy
    • This policy can be found here.
    • Uniform policy
    • This policy can be found here.
    SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (SEN) INFORMATION REPORT
    • The SEN information specified in Schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014
    • This report can be found here. On the policies page.
    The following details for your trust:
    1. Our admission arrangements for pupils with disabilities
    2. The steps we’ve taken to prevent pupils with disabilities from being treated less favourably than other pupils
    3. The facilities we provide to help pupils with disabilities to access the school
    • This information is within the Disability Equality Action Plan as follows:
      1. Page 2
      2. Page 3
      3. Page 3
    • Our accessibility Plan
    • This report can be found here
    • Arrangements for handling complaints from parents of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) about the support provided by your school)
    • This report can be found here on the policies page.
    CURRICULUM
    • For each academic year, the content of the curriculum for each subject
    • Curriculum information can be found here with detailed information for each subject.
    • Information to make parents and carers aware they have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE
    • This is reflected in the Curriculum Policy here and also stated on the Religious Studies curriculum pages here
    • Details of how someone can find out more about our curriculum
    • Curriculum information can be found here with detailed information for each subject.
    • Details of our remote learning provision
    • This information is available here
    • Information about our music development plan.
    • This information is available here
    • Key Stage 4 (KS4): a list of courses available to pupils, including GCSEs
    • This information can be found here on the curriculum page in the KS4 Course Guide
    • Post-16: the 16 to 19 qualifications you offer and how you meet the 16 to 19 study programme requirements
    • This information can be found here on the curriculum page in the KS5 Course Guide
    ADMISSIONS
    • Your school’s admission arrangements
    • Admissions Information can be found here.
    • Appeals timetable
    • Appeals Information can be found here.
    • How you’ll deal with in-year applications from 1 September to the following 31 August
    • In year application information can be found in the Admissions document for the correct year on the admissions page here.
    During any consultation on changes to admission arrangements (where applicable):
    1. A copy of the full proposed admission arrangements, including the proposed published admission number (PAN)
    2. Details of the person to whom comments may be sent
    3. The areas on which comments are not sought
    • There are currently no admissions consultations in progress.
    • As and when there are, this information will be available in the Key Information section of the Trust website here under ‘Consultations’.
    PUPIL PREMIUM STRATEGY STATEMENT
    • Pupil premium strategy statement by 31 December
    • All this information can be found here on our Pupil Premium Page.
    • The impact of the previous year’s expenditure
    • Amount of pupil premium allocation for the current year
    • A summary of the main barriers to achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school
    • How you’ll spend the grant to address those barriers and the reasoning for that approach
    • How the impact will be measured
    • The date of the next review of the pupil premium strategy
    CAREERS PROGRAMME INFORMATION
    • The name, email address and telephone number of our careers leader
    • Ms Wilson-Hooper, Deputy Head Teacher and Careers Lead can be contacted here.
    • A summary of our careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers may access information about our careers programme
    • This information can be found here.
    • Details of how our school measures and assesses the impact of our careers programme on pupils
    • This information can be found here.
    • The date of our next review of the information published
    • July 2025
    • Provider access policy statement
    • This information can be found here.
    KS4 Performance Data
    • Progress 8 score
    • All of this information can be found here.
    • Attainment 8 score
    • % of pupils achieving a grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (combined)
    • % of pupils entered for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
    • % of pupils staying in education or going into employment after KS4
    • Your EBacc average point score (APS)
    ks5 performance data (16 to 18)
    The students' headline:
  • Attainment
  • Retention
  • Destinations
    • All of this information can be found here in the 16 to 18 section
    • Destinations information is available here
    governance and financial information
    • Memorandum of association
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    • Articles of association
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    • Funding agreement and any supplemental funding agreement
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Financial Information section here
    • Up-to-date details of governance arrangements
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    • The names of trust members and academy trustees
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    • The structure and remit of the members, board of trustees, its committees and local governing bodies (the trust’s scheme of delegation), and the full names of the chair of each
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    Register of business and financial interests for members, trustees, local governors and the accounting officer, including a nil return where appropriate. The register must include their:
  • Full name, date of appointment, term of office, date they stepped down (where applicable) and who appointed them
  • Relevant business and financial interests, including governance roles in other educational institutions
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    • Attendance record at governing board and committee meetings (for trustees) and local governing body meetings (for local governors) over the last academic year
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Governance Information section here .
    • Audited annual report and accounts (at least 2 years' worth of accounts should remain on the trust website)s
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Financial Information section here .
    • Notice to improve (previously financial notice to improve) (if issued with one from the ESFA)
    • N/A
    • The amount paid by the trust for someone’s work who has an off-payroll arrangement, where the payment exceeds £100,000
    • The Trust has no off-payroll arrangements that exceed £100,000.
    • Number of employees (and payees with off-payroll arrangements) whose annual salary and benefits exceeded £100k, in £10k bandings, for the previous year ended 31 August
    • Is available on the Trust website in the Financial Information section here .
    CONTACT US

    Darrick Wood School
    Lovibonds Avenue,
    Orpington,
    Kent, BR6 8ER

    01689 850271

    office@darrickwood.bromley.sch.uk

    Darrick Wood School is proud to be part of the Impact Multi Academy Trust
     
    Impact Multi Academy Trust is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with number 07697400
     
    Registered Office: Hawksbrook Lane, South Eden Park Road, Beckenham, Kent, BR3 3BE