School's Behaviour Policy

Example 1

A moderately sized primary school in a culturally diverse, large modern town.

A lot of work had been done on the school's behaviour policy following a series of difficult year groups higher up the school.

Whole School Rewards

Oak leaves: These were awarded by the head teacher for helpful, courteous, and thoughtful behaviour. Once a week the head teacher then read out the names of those who had been given leaves and the reason why in assembly.

They were then placed on the tree, once the tree was full the whole school got ten minutes extra play on the Friday of the week that the tree became full.

Class rewards

The method was up to the individual teacher. Most had marble/pebble jars.

They were rewarded for good behaviour and good cooperation in class. A set number was agreed on by the class at the beginning at the beginning of the week. If enough pebbles were in the jar they had up to 30 minutes golden time on a Friday, the duration was at the discretion of the class teacher. (lower school- if the target was reached golden time stretched the whole afternoon)

Sanctions.

The school adopted a strategy that was employed across the whole school. This was to ensure that management of difficult behaviour was consistent across different classes where the children may have a different teacher than their normal class teacher.

There were four stages:

1) A Pre-warning: The child is warned their behaviour is inappropriate and that if they continue they will receive a formal warning.

2)The child is told that because they chose not to take seriously the pre-warning and continued with their inappropriate behaviour they have now earned a formal warning and their name is placed on the board. They are warned that if they continue they will leave the classroom.

3) 'Think sheet' The child is then removed and placed in another classroom, they are told that this is because that they ignored the warnings and carried on with their inappropriate behaviour. The child completes a 'Think sheet' discussing why their behaviour was

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