Promoting Good Behaviour

In our school being on good terms with our students is the most important thing. If a student is not happy to come to school or does not like what we ask them to do we

• Listen
• Find a better way for them to learn.

When we make this clear to the students they mostly behave well because they do not have 'to be bad to get away from school'.

If they do not feel happy but still want to be at school we help them sort out what is making them feel bad.

We know this way works because we find our students

• Behave well and treat the school with respect
• Are polite and work with staff
• Attend more as time passes and work harder
• Say they like the school a lot and want to be here

If we do have difficulties with the child in school we sometimes find them a different place to work away from the main teaching area.

When there are problems

• We ask our students to take responsibility for what they have done, to talk to us about it, and help us make sure bad things don't happen again, and good things do.
• We give the child new opportunities to do things differently.
• We try to work out how they are feeling and what they really need.

When we do this we find that the difficult behaviours usually stop.