Policies and Information for Parents
Please find below our school policy documents. If there is anything you are unable to find, please contact the school office for further assistance.
Information for Parents
Please find lower down this page, additional Information for Parents & Carers.
Click here for our Admissions Policy, which is updated annually.
GDPR policies & FoInformation Policies are here.
School Policies
Published Financial Information
Click the link to view the Schools Financial Benchmarking Data for TBSHS 2024-25
Click the link to view the Schools Financial Benchmarking Data for TBSHS 2023-24
Information for Parents/Carers
GDPR/Privacy Notices
General Data Protection Regulation Summary
On the 25th May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) came into force in the UK, building upon the Data Protection Act of 1998.
The GDPR requires public authorities and businesses to identify the lawful basis for storing personal data, audit information they hold and take a ‘data protection by design and default’ approach to personal data. In line with GDPR requirements, we have a Data Protection Officer to oversee our approach to data management and protection.
In order to ensure that we comply with the regulations, we regularly review policies, practices and privacy notices in line with the requirements.
As part of the compliance process, we regularly seek to update personal consent especially when students change age and become responsible for increasing amounts of their own data consent. The regulations are clear that consent must be up-to-date and clearly recorded. Lack of response cannot be interpreted as implied consent.
To learn more about the General Data Protection Regulation, please visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website on http://ico.org.uk
Why does this matter to The Bishop’s Stortford High School?
As a school, we handle a large volume of personal data on a day-to-day basis it is therefore extremely important that we are aware of and comply with the legislation.
How does The Bishop’s Stortford High School maintain compliance?
The school regularly undertakes data assessments to fully understand its personal data processing activities to ensure meeting compliance.
We:
- Actively engage with our external suppliers to ensure they are GDPR compliant.
- Carry out Privacy Impact Assessments.
- Review our activities and associated policies and procedures as necessary to fully comply with GDPR.
Personal Data Types
GDPR and other data protection laws rely on the term ‘personal data’ to discuss information about individuals. There are two key types of personal data in the UK and they cover different categories of information.
What is Personal Data?
Personal data can be anything that allows a living person to be directly or indirectly identified. This may be a name, an address, or even an IP address. It includes automated personal data and can also encompass pseudonymised data if a person can be identified from it.
What is sensitive to personal data?
GDPR calls sensitive personal data as being in ‘special categories’ of information. These include trade union membership, religious beliefs, political opinions, racial information, and sexual orientation.
GDPR Support
If you have any further questions, please contact dpo@tbshs.org and we will endeavour to respond at the earliest opportunity
Privacy Notices
These can be viewed by following the links below. These explain our procedures and explain how we obtain data, how we store and use it and in some instances whom we share it with.
