Behaviour

Our guiding principles for behaviour at our school are:

• We support our pupils to reflect about and learn from their behaviours.
• We want our pupils to be ready for life outside of school.
• We always aim to be fair but this does not necessarily mean equal.
• We believe that consistency and predictability support our pupils to feel safe.
• We believe that pupil-staff relationships are central.

In order to maintain consistency and predictability, we have a set of rules for behaviour. They are as follows:

• We follow instructions from adults.
• We are kind, polite and respectful to everyone.
• We keep our hands, feet and objects to ourselves.
• We hand in any mobile phones or similar devices on entry to school.
• We move around the corridors calmly and without disturbing others.

Praise

We focus on the positive as much as possible with our pupils including the following:

• Individual, subtle praise
• Praise postcards
• Phone calls home

We believe pupil input is central to a successful praise system and work with our pupil council to develop this.

Behaviour system

• Regulation – this is our first priority, the zones of regulation are integral to this.
• Reflection – we find out why the behaviour happened.
• Consequence – action.
• Learning point – developing strategies for the future.