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North Leigh CE Primary School

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Positive behaviour management principles and practices

Promoting positive behaviour

The first step in mitigating against any poor behaviour is to focus on positive behaviours in the classroom. Teachers should focus on positive behaviour choices within the classroom and around the school. Being ready to learn, polite, helpful and respectful are all key behaviours to promoting positive behaviour standards.

Positive behaviour will be acknowledged through the following:

Verbal praise
A house point
Name on the recognition board
Star of the Week award
Opportunity to share work with another member of staff

Positive behaviour can be recognised for the individual and/or the whole class. Class teachers have the discretion to use age appropriate personalised reward systems for whole class good behaviour.

All staff at North Leigh CE Primary School will strive to achieve a consistent approach to recognising positive behaviour.

Sanctions and consequences

North Leigh CE School recognises that occasionally, poor choices for behaviour are made by children. As a result, there are clear steps for managing different levels of behaviour. There are two guiding principles for consequences: educational consequences and protective consequences.

Adaptive strategies and provision will be in place through a behaviour plan, created by the class teacher, for those children who require additional support.

Educational consequences include opportunities for reflection and regulation outside of the class or in another classroom; removal of break or lunch times to complete missed work or time with a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
Protective consequences include removal of break or lunch times to ensure other children and adults are safe; the establishment of a behaviour plan; an internal exclusion or a fixed-term suspension.

Level 1 - Redirection and correction stage
For minor behaviour infringements, low-level disruption to learning, refusal to follow instructions, unkind behaviours. A restorative conversation is had when the child is ready.

Reminder of school rules and expectations, including reference to Zones of Regulation
Redirection and correction of behaviours
Time to regulate outside the classroom

Level 2
Escalation in behaviours continued from level 1 but also include swearing (not directed at anyone), deliberately hurting others, punching, kicking, fighting, spitting, throwing objects, damage to personal or school property. A restorative conversation is had when the child is ready.

Miss part of break or lunch time.
Standing with an adult on the playground for a minimum of five minutes
Regulation time in another classroom

If a child has to be sent to another classroom, this will be added to CPOMS
If two instances in a week, a letter is parents for behaviour discussion meeting

Level 3
Prolonged behaviour which results in unsafe behaviour towards self or others, including verbal and physical abuse directed towards an individual. Record made on CPOMS. A restorative conversation is had when the child is ready.

Internal exclusion for part of or the whole day with the Headteacher or Assistant Head. This could be extended to one week in the most extreme circumstances.
Removal from the playground and time with a member of SLT

Level 4
Prolonged dysregulation with no de-escalation which included physical and verbal abuse towards members of the school community, including destruction of property and significant harm. Record made on CPOMS.
A reintegration meeting is held at the end of the fixed-term suspension.

Fixed term suspension - child is not permitted to be in school for a period of up to 5 days. For this type of response, we follow the North Leigh Primary School behaviour policy which is in line with ‘School Suspension and Permanent Exclusion Statutory Guidance’ document.

Restorative conversations

When a child needs time out of class or in another classroom, there must be a restorative conversation to welcome them back.

Refer to the three school rules and ask children which one they did not follow/adhere to (see below)

Restorative conversations need to be done privately and not in front of the whole class. This can be done by anyone, but should be ‘owned’ by the person dealing with the behaviour itself. Restorative conversations should follow the WARM structure. All children and adults should become familiar with these questions so that we can all use them at any time:
W - What happened? What are you thinking now?
A - Who was affected? Was if fair what happened?
R - How will we repair this? When can this happen?
M - How can we move forward? What help do you need?

A summary of the restorative conversation needs to be put on CPOMS the same day that it is held.

Rewards

for good behaviour choices

verbal praise	house points
star of the week
name on recognition board	values award
share work with other staff

Re-direction

to support behaviour choices

reminder of expectations	support in class
star of the week

Consequences

for poor behaviour choices

2 consequences in a week = letter to parent and meeting with class teacher
miss some playtime	regulation time in another class	time with another member of staff

For destruction to property, significant harm to another pupil or adult, safety risk to self and/or others, prolonged dysregulation with no de-escalation. Parent informed.
internal suspension	external suspension

North Leigh C of E Primary School
Park Road
North Leigh
Witney
OX29 6SS
01993 881525
email office.3128@north-leigh.oxon.sch.uk