Behaviour Policy
Every student has a responsibility in ensuring that they behave in a kind, responsible and caring manner to ensure that everyone enjoys their time at the academy and stays safe.
We have developed this Behaviour Policy so that the expectations for staff, parents and students are clear and can be applied in a consistent way across the school.
We have a commitment to support our students in working together in a cooperative and supportive way throughout their time with us.
We value:
- the right to feel happy and enjoy our time ; the right to have fun and enjoy each other’s company; the right to feel safe and be safe in our body and feelings;
- the right to learn to the best of our ability;
- the right to be respected and treated with dignity at all times; justice and a sense of fairness;
- the right to reflect and debrief after incidents, sharing feelings in regard to how incidents are managed by staff; the right to make reparation; equal opportunity and accessibility for everyone.
We believe that:
- Students who feel safe, valued, cared about and successful tend to respond in a more positive and appropriate way;
- When students are treated consistently, they are able to distinguish between desirable and undesirable behaviour, they begin to feel safe and trust in the predictable environment, enabling them to take risks in their learning;
- if the ethos of the classes and the school is positive, there will be an atmosphere of mutual respect and enhancement of self-esteem in which students are behaving in an actively positive manner, and teaching and learning is leading to achievement;
- good discipline can be clear and firm, yet supportive; when we feel happy and enjoy, we learn far better.
We aim:
- to create a warm, caring, calm and orderly atmosphere of belonging in the academy that positively promotes learning and a sense of community;
- to achieve consistency of attitude and response by staff which gives a sense of security and safety; to promote and encourage the continual development of all staff in the understanding and working with students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties
- to promote in all students a sense of self-discipline and an ability to take responsibility for their actions;
- to help pupils change their anti-social behaviour that causes them so much unhappiness and to learn ways of behaving and solving difficulties that enable them to feel safe in their ability to manage feelings and control their behaviours;
- to create an environment that is safe, physically and emotionally, for everyone.
