Behaviour Policy

POLICY STATEMENT

Definitions

For this Policy and procedures, a child, young person, pupil, or student is referred to as a ‘child’ or a ‘pupil’ and they are normally under 18 years of age.

Wherever the term ‘parent’ is used, this includes any person with parental authority over the child concerned, e.g., carers, legal guardians, etc.

Wherever the term ‘Head teacher’ is used, this also refers to any Manager with the equivalent responsibility for children.

Storth School (hereinafter referred to as ‘the school’) is fully committed to every child receiving the very best education and to ensuring that all pupils reach their full potential.

To achieve this, teachers aim to deliver outstanding lessons and the school rightly has high expectations of its pupils. We expect all members of the school community to behave well, work hard, achieve high standards appropriate to their learning abilities, show respect for one another and to ensure that the school is a positive and safe place to be.

Ethos

For the School to achieve a positive ethos, it is essential that all members of the school community work well alongside each other and develop positive working relationships (this includes all staff and other adults working in the school, pupils, and parents). Having a positive ethos helps to ensure good behaviour from pupils in school. Young people learn by example, and as such, having high standards of behaviour expectations from all parties involved in their education will create adults with similarly high behaviour standards. Through the promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social, and cultural (SMSC) development within the curriculum, we will positively promote fundamental British values. To achieve this, we will:

enable pupils to develop their self-knowledge, self-esteem, and self-confidence;
enable pupils to distinguish right from wrong and to respect the civil and criminal law of England;
encourage pupils to accept responsibility for their behaviour, show initiative, and to understand how they can contribute positively to the lives of those living and working in the locality of the school and to society more widely;
enable pupils to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England;
further tolerance and harmony between different cultural traditions by enabling pupils to acquire an appreciation of and respect of their own and other cultures;
encourage respect for other people; and
encourage respect for democracy and support for participation in the democratic processes, including respect for the basis on which the law is made and applied in England.

We recognise that consistency is crucial in maintaining high standards of behaviour alongside a culture that celebrates success and is not based solely on sanctions. To this end, the school is committed to promoting and rewarding good behaviour. We are also committed to a united approach to managing behaviour in and out of school. We accept that adverse behaviours can and often do result from safeguarding issues which are external to the school such as abuse, neglect and exploitation therefore school staff will not make assumptions about behaviour without first exploring any contextual reasons for the behaviour, particularly where this may be out of character. The school will not tolerate bullying (including cyberbullying, prejudice-based and discriminatory bullying), harassment or intimidation of any description. A complaint of bullying will always be taken seriously.

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