Green | Good Behaviour (teacher may offer reminders) | |
Yellow | Child receives a warning. After two warnings, this results in a consequence … | |
Orange | Child receives a consequence (see below) which is recorded | |
Red | Child is referred to Headteacher or Deputy Headteacher | |
Blue | Child is placed on a Home-School Behaviour book (daily reports) for minimum of 2 weeks | |
Purple | Child is excluded from school (or is at risk or exclusion) | |
Consequences (or sanctions) may be applied to pupils who make poor choices about their behaviour. Consequences include:
The Headteacher may decide to EXCLUDE a pupil from school in the following instances:
Law and Guidance Our Behaviour Policy is underpinned by the statuory requirements and the guidance provided by the Department for Education which states that:
Sanctions Teachers can discipline pupils whose conduct falls below the standard which could reasonably be expected of them. This means that if a pupil misbehaves, breaks a school rule or fails to follow a reasonable instruction the teacher can impose a punishment on that pupil. The be lawful, the punishment (including detentions) must satisfy the following three conditions:
The Headteacher may limit the power to apply particular punishments to certain staff and/or extend the power to discipline to adult volunteers, for example to parents who have volunteered to help on a school trip. Teachers have a statutory power to discipline pupils for misbehaving outside of the school premises. The school’s behaviour policy sets out what the school will do in response to all non-criminal bad behaviour and bullying which occurs anywhere off the school premises, including through social media, and which is witnessed by a staff member of reported to the school, including the punishments that will be imposed on pupils.The teacher may discipline a pupil for any misbehaviour when the child is
or for misbehaviour which
Confiscation of inappropriate Items The general power to discipline enables a member of staff to confiscate, retain or dispose of a pupil’s property as a punishment and protects them from liability to damage to, or loss of, any confiscated items. The following items will be confiscated by staff and either returned to parents, retained or destroyed:
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