Bobmore Lane, Marlow, Buckinghamshire SL7 1JE
Telephone - 01628 483 752
Company Registration No.07690054

No Smoking Policy

PURPOSE

This policy has been developed to protect all staff, students, contractors and from exposure to secondhand smoke and to assist compliance with the Health Act 2006.

 

POLICY

It has always been the policy of Great Marlow School that the school is smoke free. An extension to the policy came into effect on Sunday 1st July 2007 that smoking is prohibited on all the school premises. This includes school vehicles and school grounds.

This policy applies to all employees, students, contractors and visitors and to those using the premises outside normal school hours.

 

IMPLEMENTATION

Overall responsibility for policy implementation and review rests with the Headteacher. However, all staff are obliged to adhere to, and support the policy. The school will regularly inform all employees, students and contractors of the policy and their role in its the implementation and monitoring. For new staff the policy forms part of the Contract of Employment. The Premises Manager will advise all contractors working on site of the policy and those who hire the school premises for out of school hours events.

Appropriate ‘no-smoking’ signs will be clearly displayed at the entrances to the premises, and in all school vehicles.

 

NON-COMPLIANCE

Local disciplinary procedures will be followed if a member of staff, or student, does not comply with this policy. Those who do not comply with the smoke free law may also be liable to a fixed penalty fine and possible criminal prosecution.

 

STATEMENT OF POLICY ON CIGARETTE SMOKING

Great Marlow School encourages students not to smoke cigarettes by means of its PSHE curriculum and by other pastoral contacts. Great Marlow School is a non smoking establishment that fully supports recent legislation making it illegal to smoke on public premises.

Students are not allowed to be in possession of cigarettes or lighters whilst at school, on the periphery of the site, on their way to or from school, or whilst engaged in school activities.

If a student breaks this rule, in the first instance, parents or carers will be contacted and he or she will be given lunch-time detentions. A student who disobeys a second time will be given additional lunch-time detentions, parents/carers will again be informed and the student will complete an anti-smoking assignment. If this rule is broken on a third occasion then parents/carers will be contacted and asked to take responsibility for the supervision of their son or daughter at lunch-times for a week.  After a fourth transgression students will be placed in the Inclusion Room and/or parents/carers will be asked to take responsibility for the supervision of their son or daughter at lunch times for the rest of that term.

We are concerned for the health of all our students and shall attempt to offer counselling for those who are addicted to the habit, but seek parents’/carers’ support in this respect as well as their support of our disciplinary measures.

 

HELP TO STOP SMOKING

The NHS offers a range of free services to help smokers give up.  Visit gosmokefree.co.uk or call the NHS Smoking Helpline on 0800 169 0 169 for details.  Alternatively you can text ‘GIVE UP’ and your full postcode to 88088 to find your local NHS Stop Smoking Service.

 

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