The school has a flexible hierarchy of responses to bad behaviour. Exclusion from the school is the most serious response in the hierarchy. The school will endeavour to act in a way that is fair, proportionate and with a view to the best interests of the student concerned, other students, members of staff and the school. With this in mind exclusions will only be used where the Head teacher deems it to be a lawful, rational, reasonable, fair and proportionate sanction. For further details on sanctions please refer to Appendix Two Exclusions Policy – Behaviour Policy Sanctions - Examples SANCTION INCIDENT LEADING TO SANCTION DETAILS OF SANCTION During School Detentions Short Minor incidents and minor or one-off non Maximum of 10 minutes at break Detention with school expectations given by or 10 - 30 minutes at lunchtime. Class Teacher or Form Tutor. (No parental notice given) Lunch Misbehaviour at break or lunch time Isolation Room for lunchtime Isolation Inappropriate behaviour as directed by Head of period. Lunch will be eaten in Failure to follow school rules regarding the Isolation Room. (No parental uniform and appearance notice given) School Detentions pupils can be detained for a short period after school to allow – conversations to take place between staff and pupils. This will normally be no longer than 10 minutes. Although it is legal to keep pupils behind after lessons for longer, we will aim to give 24 hours’ written notice or telephone notice of longer detentions. Faculty or Failure to attend Class/Form Tutor detention. One hour detention unless Head of Persistent non-compliance with faculty otherwise notified by Head of House expectations (e.g. strike 2 homework, poor Faculty or Head of House. Detention attitude to learning, disruptive behaviour in (Parental notice given either by lessons etc.) letter/phone or in pupil’s Persistent non-compliance with school homework planner) expectations (e.g. uniform etc.) Senior One-off serious incidents or continued repeated One hour detention. (Parental Callout disruption to learning during ONE teaching contact by phone on day of period Callout, otherwise notice given by letter) More than 10 minutes late to either form or Length of detention is 20 Punctuality Detention class time over a period of a week. minutes PLUS number of minutes late within that one week period. (Pupils informed by Form Tutor 48 hours before detention day and on every register one day before detention date.) Whole N1 more than 6 negatives over the period of a One hour detention with FT – week One hour detention with HoH School Behaviour
The school has a flexible hierarchy of responses to bad behaviour. Exclusion from the school is the most serious response in the hierarchy. The school will endeavour to act in a way that is fair, proportionate and with a view to the best interests of the student concerned, other students, members of staff and the school. With this in mind exclusions will only be used where the Head teacher deems it to be a lawful, rational, reasonable, fair and proportionate sanction. For further details on sanctions please refer to Appendix Two – Exclusions Policy Behaviour Policy Sanctions - Examples SANCTION INCIDENT LEADING TO SANCTION DETAILS OF SANCTION During School Detentions Short Detention Minor incidents and minor or one-off non with school expectations given by Class Teacher or Form Tutor. Maximum of 10 minutes at break or 10 - 30 minutes at lunchtime. (No parental notice given) Lunch Isolation Misbehaviour at break or lunch time Inappropriate behaviour as directed by Head of Failure to follow school rules regarding uniform and appearance Isolation Room for lunchtime period. Lunch will be eaten in the Isolation Room. (No parental notice given) School Detentions – pupils can be detained for a short period after school to allow conversations to take place between staff and pupils. This will normally be no longer than 10 minutes. Although it is legal to keep pupils behind after lessons for longer, we will aim to give 24 hours’ written notice or telephone notice of longer detentions. Faculty or Head of House Detention Failure to attend Class/Form Tutor detention. Persistent non-compliance with faculty expectations (e.g. strike 2 homework, poor attitude to learning, disruptive behaviour in lessons etc.) Persistent non-compliance with school expectations (e.g. uniform etc.) One hour detention unless otherwise notified by Head of Faculty or Head of House. (Parental notice given either by letter/phone or in pupil’s homework planner) Senior Callout One-off serious incidents or continued repeated disruption to learning during ONE teaching period One hour detention. (Parental contact by phone on day of Callout, otherwise notice given by letter) Punctuality Detention More than 10 minutes late to either form or class time over a period of a week. Length of detention is 20 minutes PLUS number of minutes late within that one week period. (Pupils informed by Form Tutor 48 hours before detention day and on every register one day before detention date.) Whole School Behaviour N1 – more than 6 negatives over the period of a week One hour detention with FT One hour detention with HoH
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