Behaviour Policy Years 3 - 8
At Sompting Abbotts, we strongly believe that excellent behaviour is fundamental to excellent learning. Below you will find details of our comprehensive behaviour policy with clear guidelines for both staff and pupils to follow, with consequences for good and bad behaviour. Without a strong behaviour management system, the majority of students suffer a disrupted learning process because of the few. The secret to creating a working environment that benefits everyone is the 4Cs: communication, choices, chances and consequences.
Our Behaviour Policy has been written in compliance with the guidelines contained in the DfE Guidance ‘Behaviour and Discipline in Schools’ (2016) and The Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework 2014. The policy has regard for the Equality Act 2010, including issues related to pupils with special educational needs or disabilities and how reasonable judgements are made for these pupils.
OUR BEHAVIOUR POLICY EXPLICITLY REJECTS THE USE OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT.
Rationale
The aim of discipline should be to guide children towards a set of values based on Christian principles and British Values and, in particular, to encourage the school’s core values of:
Respect
Kindness
Honesty
Trust
Perseverance
Tolerance
Effective behaviour management is essential to the smooth running of a school, and in the creation of an environment where everyone`s rights are respected and their responsibilities understood. This policy indicates the philosophy and the structures which will support that process in our school. Every Child Matters has underpinned the development of this policy whose aims are:
To be healthy
To stay safe
To enjoy and achieve
To make a positive contribution
To achieve well-being.
We aim to provide a behaviour management system which contributes to enabling effective learning in the classroom, the quality of life in school and the functioning of the school as an orderly community which promotes well-being for all. We aim for children to sense the need for, and develop self-discipline and respect for others.
For information on Prep-Prep Behaviour Policy, please visit our policies page.
What child doesn’t love to collect handfuls of glossy brown conkers? At Sompting Abbotts, they don't just fill their pockets — even socks become makeshift pouches. And so, at this time of the year, we send the children out into our school grounds to look for shiny conkers (not that they need any persuading).