Behaviour Policy

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Broomhill Infant School & Children’s Centre

 

 

Positive Behaviour Policy

 

Approved: April 2004

 

Reviewed: September 2009

 

RATIONALE

 

 

The staff at Broomhill Infant School and Children’s Centre, recognise the need for a consistent approach to supporting the children in our care in their development of behaviour management skills. As a staff, we hope to promote our aims and values through example and work in partnership with parents and carers to ensure a consistent approach.

 

 

AIMS

 

 

• To encourage all children to have respect for themselves, for other people and for the school and wider environment.

   

• To help children to understand other people’s views and experiences and to be caring and tolerant of them.

   

• To enable children to have an increasing ability to take responsibility for their own actions and to understand the consequences of their behaviour.

   

• To give children an understanding of how to be fair to all: how to share and give everyone an equal chance.

   

• To teach children how to be polite and considerate whilst acknowledging cultural traditions.

   

• To promote acts of kindness.

   

• To show children how to keep themselves and others safe and to give them the confidence to express their concerns and fears in an appropriate way.

   

 

GUIDELINES

 

 

1     We will help children look after themselves by:

 

·Praising them: focusing on the positive things they do.

 

·Helping them to recognise their feelings and express themselves in an acceptable way.

 

·Encouraging them to ask for help from peers as well as adults.

 

·Encouraging them to see good in others.

 

 

 

 

2     We help children to care about others by:

 

·Using conflict resolution.

 

·Modelling appropriate behaviour.

 

·Naming and making feelings clear including the consequences of their  actions.

 

·Boosting self esteem.

 

·Giving time to listen and help acknowledge their responses sensitively.

 

 

3     We help children to be polite by:

 

·Encouraging them to say “please” and “thank you”.

 

·Saying “good morning”

 

·Encouraging them to wait their turn.

 

·Talking one at a time, listening to each other and not interrupting when someone is speaking.

 

·Giving children clear messages.

 

 

4     We ask children to look after equipment by:

 

·Teaching them about health and safety.

 

·Encouraging them to put things away in the correct place.

 

·Looking after equipment ourselves.

 

·Teaching them to respect the resources we use.

 

 

5     We help children to care about the environment by:

 

·Making it as attractive as possible.

 

·Tidying up together.

 

·Displaying children’s work.

 

·Picking up rubbish.

 

·Making displays of interesting objects including natural materials.

 

·Providing labelled storage.

 

·Explaining proper care and use of areas.

 

·Teaching about the natural environment.

 

·Sharing responsibility.

 

 

Staff will deal with more serious behaviour by:

 

·Labelling the behaviour not the child.

 

·Using non-confrontational language eg .”When sand is thrown…………”   instead of “When you throw sand ……”

 

·Using a short time out providing they are supervised at all times.

 

·Informing parents and carers if appropriate.

 

 

Behaviour which we consider extremely serious:

 

·Racist remarks.

 

·Inappropriate touching.

 

·Threatening behaviour including verbal and physical.

 

·Persistently hurting others.

 

 

Staff actions will reflect the severity of the incident. The intervention may include one or more of the following:

 

·Removing the child from the situation.

 

·When emotions have subsided, encouraging the child to face up to the hurt they have caused.

 

·Restraining or holding them if they are a danger to themselves or others.

 

·Seeking support from the Senior Leadership Team

 

Serious incidents may result in a meeting with the Head Teacher and the parents or carers to discuss the way forward.

 

 

Physical Intervention

 

 

·         On the rare occasions when we may need to restrain or remove a child for their own safety or the safety of others, we will inform parents or carers and ensure that we follow the school’s guidelines that are based on Local Authority’s guidelines for safe handling.

 

 

Parents and carers are an integral part of our school community. We will work closely with all parents and carers in implementing our school’s behaviour policy.

 

We aim to:

 

·Share our expectations of behaviour at information evenings.

 

·Talk to parents about any aspect of their child’s behaviour which is causing concern.

 

·Be fair, non-judgemental and consistent in our dealing with behavioural issues at school.

 

·Offer support to parents and carers in managing their child’s difficult behaviour by offering support or through referring them to outside agencies.

 

We would like parents to:

 

·Communicate any significant changes in circumstances that may affect their child’s behaviour.

 

·Reinforce expected behaviour to their child by talking to him or her when at home.

 

·Support the staff in implementing the school’s behaviour policy.

 

 

 

At Broomhill Infants School and Children’s Centre we strive to be an educationally inclusive school. As such we will make every effort to adapt approaches, cultures, policies and practices to ensure that every child is given equal opportunities to access the school’s curriculum and facilities whatever their gender, ethnic origin, religious belief, care status, impairment, attainment or social or economic background.

 

 

Effective intervention is the most successful way of promoting positive behaviour. This policy will be reviewed annually with the whole staff to ensure consistency of approach.

 

 

 

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