Good behaviour is the core mission for every school, whatever age or stage. Get behaviour right and everything else is possible. It is the beginning of safety, equity, dignity, curriculum, opportunity and learning...’

Source: Tom Bennett

Successful relationships are underpinned by the positive ethos promoted in the school’s culture; a culture which demands high expectations of staff and pupils and which also demonstrates respect, tolerance and understanding of difference, in the drive towards equality of opportunity and high aspirations for all. We aim to create a culture of exceptionally good behaviour: for learning, for community and for life.

We aim to build a community which values kindness, care, respect, tolerance and empathy for others and to help learners take control over their behaviour and be responsible for the consequences of it. We encourage pupils to value the diversity in our society and the environment in which they live whilst becoming active and responsible citizens, contributing to the community and society.

Through encouraging positive behaviour models we can promote good relationships throughout the school community built on trust and understanding. We believe that as pupils practise these behaviours, over time they become habits that positively shape how they feel about themselves and how other people perceive them.

As philosopher Paul Durant states “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (1926)

We have developed an attachment aware approach to promoting positive behaviour

We work with vulnerable and challenging children. It is important to us that where children become distressed or dysregulated that they receive support and that this behaviour does not interrupt the learning. Staff will work to understand what is causing children to struggle and work with the child, family and other agencies to find ways to help the child regulate their emotions and increasingly engage with their learning. .

We live our core values

We use the language of our vision and core values to ensure a consistency of approach. Our Agreed rules are rooted in this framework. Children are able to talk about our rules and routines and what happens when things don't go well. Our behaviour and culture curriculum shows all families, staff and child

We work with you to promote positive behaviour

Families and children will work together to understand triggers that can cause a child to become distressed and to identify things that might help to settle them again. We are happy to share strategies we use in school to support you at home. We also have parenting courses and support to offer families so that they can put things in place at home. 

If you are interested in any of these, please contact the office so that we can get in touch to talk about what we offer.