Introduction

At St Paul’s, the Governing Body, Principal, Leadership team and all adults are committed to creating an environment where exemplary behaviour is at the heart of productive learning. Everyone is expected to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct, to accept responsibility for their behaviour and encourage others to do the same.

Our behaviour policy guides staff to teach self-discipline not blind compliance. It echoes our core values with a heavy emphasis on respectful behaviour, a partnership approach to managing poor conduct and dynamic interventions that support staff and pupils. We aimed to be a trauma-informed, attachment-aware community and strive for the best relational practice.

Aims and Objectives

• To create a culture of exceptionally good behaviour: for learning, for community and for life.
• To ensure that all pupils are treated fairly, shown respect and to promote good relationships.
• To refuse to give pupils attention and a sense of importance for poor conduct.
• To help pupils self-regulate and be responsible for their own behaviour.
• To build a community which values kindness, care, good humour, good temper, discipline and empathy for others.
• To promote community cohesion through improved relationships.
• To ensure that excellent behaviour is celebrated and normalised.
• To reduce exclusion and increase inclusion.

Our core values – a community of welcome, seekers of truth and justice makers also take us to a deeper place of reflection on what it means to be ‘God’s work of Art’ (school motto) in a school setting. We are ambitious for the best conduct and habits so that we can lead our young people to success.

Ready, Respectful and Safe

Ready, Respectful and Safe are the three rules which underpin our behaviour policy. Our conversations about wanted and unwanted behaviours are regular, often delivered daily as part of a behaviour curriculum. This enables us to explain the 'why' as well as the 'what' of behaviour.

Ready - Ready to learn, ready to listen, ready to participate etc.

 

Respectful - Respect for themselves. Showing respect to their peers, to adults, to our environment.

 

Safe - Safe in their learning environment, safe with the people around them and safe in the activities in which they are taking part. Every behaviour intervention, positive or corrective, must be punctuated with 'Ready', 'Respectful' or 'Safe'.

Adults must be consistent when referring to the three rules, pinning behaviour to the same three rules every time. This is a core consistency for all adults working at our school.