We believe that we promote good behaviour by creating a happy caring school environment where everyone feels valued, respected, secure and free from all forms of anti-social behaviour. We encourage pupils to achieve in a learning environment where self-discipline is promoted and good behaviour is the norm. We believe pupils will achieve their full potential in a happy, stimulating and ordered school environment. 

Aim of the behaviour policy:

• To provide a safe, comfortable and caring environment where optimum learning takes place
• To provide a clear guide for children, staff and parents of expected levels of behaviour
• To provide a consistent and calm approach
• All adults take responsibility for behaviour and follow-up personally
• Adults use consistent language to promote positive behaviour
• To use restorative approaches instead of punishments

Purpose of the behaviour policy:

• To provide simple, practical procedures for staff and pupils that:
• Encourage pupils to recognise that they can and should make ‘good’ choices
• Recognise behavioural norms
• Promote self-esteem and self-discipline
• Teach appropriate behaviour through positive intervention

We recognise that clear structure of predictable outcomes have the best impact on behaviour. Our rules ‘Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe’ are followed by all children and staff. It is based on the work of Paul Dix and his book ‘When the adults change, everything changes’. Good behaviour is recognised sincerely rather than just rewarded. Children are praised publicly and reminded in private.

‘’When people talk about behaviour, they obsessively search for the instant solution. Some peddle magic dust or ‘behaviour systems’ that glisten yet quickly fade. Others relentlessly scream for a bigger stick to beat pupils down with. Both extremes harbour an irresistible idea that there is a short cut to changing behaviour. They sell the lie that you can provoke sustained behavioural change in others without doing much hard work yourself. The truth is that there is no alternative to the hard work: building relationships with those who would rather not, resetting expectations with those who trample them, being relentlessly positive and sustaining a poker face when confronted with challenging behaviour.’’

Paul Dix, Pivotal Education

The school has 3 simple behaviour rules:

‘Be Ready, Be Respectful and Be Safe’

These can be applied to a variety of situations and are taught and modelled explicitly.  These rules are explicitly linked to our six Academy values:

• Kindness
• Bravery/ Resilience
• Honesty
• Respect
• Curiosity
• Independence

Suspension / Exclusions:

A serious breach of Academy behaviour policy may result in a period of seclusion from class where the pupil is isolated from their peers for a limited time. The power to exclude a pupil stems from the 1986 Act. This must be a SUSPENSION or PERMANENT.

These include:

 Verbal abuse to adults – comments, swearing or suggestions which could cause deep offence

 Physical abuse of adults

 Persistent and deliberate hurting of other children

 Persistent to defiance to adults, both verbally and non-verbally

 Persistent disregard of other people’s/school property

 Racist behaviour

 Bullying – including homophobic bullying

The power to suspend or exclude a pupil may be exercised only by the Headteacher who will use the sanction only in serious cases. The procedures for exclusion are laid down by the L.A. and the Governors. They must be followed exactly.