Elson Infant School Behaviour Policy
Behaviour Policy
A Policy for BEHAVIOURThis policy runs in conjunction with the Policy for Physical Restraint (2001)
This document forms part of the school policies related to teaching and learning and is written for all staff, Governors and parents. It will be reviewed regularly.
At Elson Infant School we believe that
* good behaviour is important and should be the norm.
* effective teaching and learning are dependent upon acceptable social behaviour;
e.g. respect for other people, property and environment
responding politely and courteously to adults and peers
using good manners at all times
learning to share with others
demonstrating self-control in actions and emotions.
* responsibility for children?s acceptable behaviour is shared by ALL staff, parents and governors.
* parents should be made aware of our expectations and understand that
behaviour is a shared responsibility between home and school.
* parents should be kept informed of their children?s successes and failures in conforming to acceptable standards of behaviour.
* children should be actively involved in the negotiation of class ground rules for acceptable behaviour.
* children should be listened to and their concerns attended to by ALL adults.
Parents and children should be familiar with the procedures for rewards such as;
praise
encouragement
sharing with peers, parents and members of staff
the ?Special Mentions? certificates
?Golden Time? in Year 2.
Stickers
The class teacher or appropriate member of staff will deal with bad behaviour.
All classes will have a behaviour indicator with children?s names on pegs placed around a smiley yellow face like the rays of a sun. Alongside this are a cloud with partially hidden sun and cloud with a gloomy face. Pegs are moved progressively between these if bad behaviour persists. The child will be encouraged to improve their behaviour enabling them to return the peg to the sun. If a child has their peg placed on the gloomy cloud they will be sent to a neighbouring year group class for 5 minutes. If an incident is sufficiently serious, the child may be sent directly to the Headteacher.
For children who display constantly good behaviour or perform in an exceptional way, there is the opportunity to move their peg up to the rainbow (or similar) in recognition of this achievement.
With argumentative children it may be appropriate to continue to use the ?referee card? system (as set out below) in conjunction with the pegs.
The three step, ?referee card? system. The frequency of using the cards will be in relation to individual need.
Step 1. The teacher will show a yellow card with number one on it and say ?This is your first warning.?
Step 2. If the child repeats the action or continues the unacceptable behaviour, a second yellow card showing number two is shown with the warning, ?This is your second warning. Remember, next time you will go to .........? Staff within each year group will have an agreed order of classes for a brief (5 minutes maximum) exclusion.
Step 3. If the child continues to misbehave, they are shown the red card and sent to the named teacher.
These three steps will be repeated and the second class will be used for the exclusion. If the process has to be repeated for a third time, the warning will be ?This is your final warning. If you misbehave again, you will go to Mrs MacCallum?.
Any child who persistently misbehaves should have all incidents logged in a standard school behaviour diary.
Severe instances will be referred to the Headteacher immediately. She will contact the parents and take appropriate action;
* the child may work away from their class for a while.
* parents will be informed by letter of the misdemeanour.
* parents will be invited to talk with the Headteacher about sanctions to be taken, walk with an adult at playtime, work indoors during playtime.
* in extreme cases, exclusion may be the appropriate course of action.
There are other sanctions at the teachers disposal:
* ?giving back? playtime to complete work if they play about in lesson time.
* when work is not completed in class, see the parent and draw up a simple contract in which they undertake to see that the task is completed at home.
* the teacher and/or headteacher draws up a contract for modified behaviour
between themselves and the child which is signed by all parties.. If appropriate,
parents will be involved in writing the contract. In any event, a copy of the
contract will be sent home. It may be appropriate for the modified behaviour to
be set for home and school.
* the child can be made to walk with an adult in the playground as punishment for
unkind or thoughtless behaviour towards others. Always tell the office, duty
teachers and dinner lady if this action is taken. The child?s name and end date
for punishment should be posted on the staffroom board and given to the Senior
Supervisory Assistant.
All teachers will refer to the agreed approach to classroom management and organisation in order to establish continuity and a positive approach.
All staff will promote the ?Golden Rules? with the children. Individual classes will negotiate a set of rules, which will be revised regularly. These rules will require the children to abide by a code of social behaviour and incorporate real responsibility for care of equipment and positive attitudes towards learning and to tasks.
Assembly
In assembly, staff are responsible for the behaviour of their class and should seat themselves in an appropriate position to manage this. Any child who creates a disturbance or talks persistently, should be asked to remain in the hall when their class leaves. They will be expected to apologise to the adult taking assembly before returning to their class.
The Playground
There will be consistency of approach by ALL staff including the lunch hour. Children and adults will be aware of what is considered unacceptable playground conduct:
e.g. fighting, name calling, pulling clothes, climbing walls and trees.
The perimeter walls may be used as seating in the warmer weather, this should be strongly discouraged in the winter months.
The staff must exercise common sense about some behaviour: if it is wet, keep the children off of the grass and away from puddles; in hot weather discourage the children from running around too much. Duty staff on the playground should be vigilant at all times and deal with any incidents immediately.
Staff should move around the playground constantly monitoring the children. All children should be taught to ask a member of staff if they need to leave the playground to use the toilet. Staff should be aware of children who go into the building for any reason.
Occasionally some children may be withdrawn from the playground at the discretion of the Headteacher or member of staff, when this is deemed an appropriate punishment. These children will spend playtime doing a suitable task under staff supervision.
Bullying
Every effort will be made to prevent incidents of verbal or physical bullying. Staff will endeavour to offer counselling and pastoral care to the victims of bullying. They must share their concerns with the Headteacher who will inform the parents of both parties involved.
ALL staff will listen to and act upon reports of bullying from children and parents.
Incidents will be recorded by the class teacher or Headteacher, as appropriate and parents will be kept informed. The agreed action for unacceptable behaviour will be followed and in EXTREME cases may result in the involvement of the Educational Psychologist, Child and Family Therapy or in the application of exclusion procedures. The Governors would be consulted in the event of exclusion and Hampshire procedures would be followed.
Angela MacCallum Headteacher.
Policy revised July 2003.
Policy accepted 23.09.03
Review date Autumn 2005 Back to top