Changes to data protection law

You may be aware that from 25th May 2018, the rules around data protection changed. The ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ (GDPR) changes how we, as a school, can use your personal data and keep it safe, and will also strengthen your rights over your own data.

The point of this is to make sure sensitive or private information about yourselves and your children stays safe. Whilst it is similar to the Data Protection Act in many ways, there are a few differences, so we need to make a few changes as a school in order to ensure we remain compliant.

Data within school is only used where necessary and is used for:

• Registers
• Tapestry (where we assess your children’s progress)
• School Census (a legal requirement)
• Mathletics
• Seesaw
• Showbie
• Classroom Dojo
• Busy Things
• Emails – for newsletters, etc.
• Telephone numbers – to contact parents and carers
• Addresses – for correspondence
• Inventory – signing in system (for fire safety)
• Local Authority
• Police
• NHS

We have a privacy notice that can be found on the school website or you can request a copy from the office.

As part of our work to comply with the GDPR, we are also re-seeking consent for using photographs or videos of your child on our website, internal displays, local and national press. We will send this request out shortly

As you’re already receiving regular communications including emails, telephone calls and letters from us, we are going to continue sending you information which is relevant to your child’s education, so there’s no need to do anything. We just wanted to keep you up to date and reassure you we respect your privacy.

We only use your information to share what is happening at Coalbrookdale which concerns your child. We will continue to do this to keep you up to date.

If you’d like to stop receiving emails, please let us know, in writing, and tell us how you would like to be kept informed.

We will continue to hold all the contact details you share with us so that we can contact you in the event of your child being poorly or needing to get a message to you.

If you have any questions about how the GDPR affects you, or how our school is preparing for it, please contact the school office.