Year 7 Info booklet - Wentworth High School

The overall aim of the Behaviour and Discipline Policy is to promote good behaviour and create thepositive atmosphere in classrooms that is required for teachers to teach and all pupils to learn. Bythis, we aim to raise achievement by improving the behaviour and attitude of those pupils who donot always behave acceptably, and reward those who do.The school regularly seeks the views of the major stakeholders in relation to pupil behaviour andthe school’s behaviour strategy. Pupils, Parents, Governors, teaching and non-teaching staff areconsulted and their views recorded and responded to.Aims of the School Behaviour and Discipline Policy:RewardsTo create an environment which encourages and reinforces good behaviour.To define acceptable standards of behaviour.To encourage consistency of response to both positive and negative behaviour.To promote self-esteem, self-discipline and positive relationships.To ensure that the school's expectations and strategies are widely known and understood.Rewards play a crucial part in the reinforcement of good behaviour and we believe that rewardshave a motivational role, helping students see that good behaviour is valued.The commonest reward is praise, informal and formal, public and private, to individuals andgroups. It is earned by the maintenance of good standards as well as by particularly noteworthyachievements.Departments are encouraged to deliver subject specific rewards in the classroom via the use ofAchievement Awards in SIMS and positive contact home.Achievement Coordinators employ specific rewards for their year group involving individualawards, group and / or class rewards. These can include the awarding of vouchers, Jump theQueue lunch tickets, form group trophies, bespoke trips such as bowling and non uniform days forspecific forms or groups.Trips at the end of term are also aimed at those students that have displayed good behaviour andattendance throughout the year.SanctionsSanctions are based on the degree of severity of the issue or incident and could include thefollowing:Reprimand by the class teacher – incident recorded on the pupil’s behaviour logPupils placed on the corridor to reflect on their attitude – recorded on behaviour logDetentions both individual teacher and school based – recorded on behaviour log.Detentions take place every evening after school. Detentions can also be given for poorpunctuality to school or lessons.Pupils being placed on the Behaviour Staging System – Stage 1 on report to class teacher,Stage 2 on report to faculty director of learning, Stage 3 on report to AchievementCoordinator, Stage 4 on report to member of SLT, Stage 5 on report to Headteacher.Pupils can be placed in seclusion for fixed length of time for serious incidents and in themost serious cases pupils can be fixed term excluded for a fixed period.