Good Behaviour Policy

Rationale & Purpose

Guidelines

Rewards

Sanctions

Rationale & Purpose

 

 

A high standard of behaviour is expected within the school community so that teachers can teach effectively and children can maximise the learning opportunities provided for them.

 

Purpose:

 

1. To ensure that children have the opportunity to learn without excessive disruption.

    

2. To ensure that teachers can organise learning without teaching time being lost through poor behaviour.

    

3. To provide a safe, calm and secure environment for learning.

    

4. To promote self-discipline, self control and responsibility.

    

5. To recognise and celebrate good behaviour.

Our Golden Rules:

1. We will have kind hands and feet.

2. We will not say unkind things.

3. We will follow instructions first time.

4. We will move quietly and sensibly around the school.

5. We will put our hands up when we want to speak.

6. We will do our best.

 

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Guidelines

 

Guidelines:

 

1. The school will operate a behaviour programme which positively reinforces good behaviour whilst marginalising disruptive behaviour.

    

2. The system aims to produce a positive self-image in the child.

    

3. School rules will be clear, positively phrased and discussed regularly via assembly and circle time.

    

4. The system of rewards and sanction will be consistently applied by all staff.

    

5. Parental support will be sought through the Home-school agreement.

    

 

Around school:

 

1.      Children are expected to walk quietly around the school building.

 

2.      Assembly is a time for whole school reflection and children will be expected to enter and leave the hall in silence.

 

3.      During PE, noise should be kept to a level where the teacher can give an instruction without raising their voice.

 

4.      At the end of playtime, children are expected to quietly line up.

 

5.      All staff are expected to take corporate responsibility for behaviour around the school and inappropriate behaviour should be consistently challenged.

 

 

In class:

 

1. Lessons will begin promptly at the published times.

    

2. Children should move around the class quietly and sensibly.

    

3. The children must be trained to listen attentively.

    

4. The children should stop and listen immediately when asked to do so.

    

5. Children will be told the level of volume expected during a lesson e.g. silence, quiet discussion etc.

    

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Rewards

 

 

  

Rewarding positive behaviour both improves a child’s self-image and demonstrates to all that this behaviour is valued by the school community.

 

 

 

Individual – to celebrate individual effort & success:

 

1.      Head teacher certificate – awarded for outstanding effort either in learning or attitude.

 

2.      Name on ‘Happy Board’ = 1 star, Commendation after 10 stars, Head Teacher’s Behaviour Award after 10 commendations.

 

 

Class – to celebrate and reward collective class behaviour:

 

- Pebbles in a jar – 20 pebbles = 15 minute class reward.

 

 

House – to reward team behaviour:

 

            - House point given as spot reward, including lunchtime/ playtime behaviour. Winning house get 5 minutes extra break on Friday afternoon.

 

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Sanctions

 

Stepped sanctions aim to highlight inappropriate behaviour whilst giving the child the chance to conform to the school rules.

 

 

In class:

 

 

First: child reminded of Golden Rule if child looks like they may break it.

 

1. Verbal warning ‘I am giving you a verbal warning because…’

    

2. Name on board.

    

3. Mark by name - 5 minutes off Golden time & 5 minutes on Carpet/ away from other children.

    

4. Sent to partner class for 20 minutes or miss break if less than 20 minutes remaining. Name noted in class behaviour book and Class teacher spends a few minutes discussing behaviour with child during the next playtime.

    

5. Sent to Head Teacher – behaviour discussed and recorded in HT behaviour log. Child attends the sanction room at next available break.

    

 

Use of the sanction room:

 

1. TA’s will supervise the sanction room on a rota basis (only when required).

    

2. Whilst in the sanction room the child will fill out a behaviour account form. This will be signed by both the Head Teacher and class teacher, with relevant comments.

    

3. A standard letter will be sent to the child’s parents along with a copy of the behaviour account form.

    

 

If a child is sent to Head teacher twice in a Term (new) then parents will be contacted and the child will be given either an Individual Behaviour Plan or be placed on report.

 

 

All children who do not get their name in the class behaviour book will receive a ‘good behaviour letter’ at the end of terms 2, 4 and 6.

 

 

NB: Any sanctions received by a child whilst in a Literacy or Numeracy group which is different to their main class will be communicated to the class teacher at the end of the lesson.

 

 

 Lunchtime/ Playtime Sanctions:

 

 

First: child reminded of Golden Rule if child looks like they may break it.

 

1. Verbal warning ‘I am giving you a verbal warning because…’

    

2. Time out to calm down – 5 minutes by wall and reminder of rule broken.

    

3. Sent in for remainder of lunchtime – HT discusses behaviour with child and notes in behaviour log.

    

 

If a child is sent to the Head teacher twice in a term (new) then parents will be contacted and the child may be placed on lunchtime/ Playtime report or given an Individual Behaviour Plan.

 

 

Severe Behaviour Clause:

 

 

If a child engages in any of the following severe behaviours, the above stages will be by-passed and the child will be sent straight to the head teacher:

 

-          Racial abuse

 

-          Verbal abuse or swearing at an adult

 

-          Bullying (as defined in Anti-bullying policy)

 

-          Extreme behaviour e.g. violence, running away, vandalism, deliberately dangerous activity.

 

-          Persistent disobedience or destructive behaviour.

 

 

The child will immediately be removed from class. The Severe Behaviour Policy will then be followed.

 

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