Promoting Positive Behaviour
Parent Information Session
Monday 8th October 2014
Anne Stewart- Headteacher
Why?
‘ The starting point for learning is a
positive ethos and climate of respect
and trust based upon shared values
across the school community, including
parents, whether for young people in
school or those not in school.’
Curriculum for Excellence: Building the
Curriculum 3 (2008)
Aims to maximise potential






Reach for the Stars
Values -Hardworking, Helpful, Honest, Healthy,
Happy
Aims – Learning to Be
Aims – Learning to Do
Aims – Learning to Live with Others
Focus on making every moment, of every day count
for each child – every day is a learning day –
Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Effective
Contributors, Responsible Citizens.
Saline Charters






Sensible choices
Responsibility for own actions
Rights and expectations
School Charter – 7 ‘rights’ RRS and
alongside the expectations
Playground Charter
Classroom Charter
Incentive to promote positive
behaviour





Learning Journey folders
House System
Good to Be Green
Golden Time
Class rewards
Recognising wider
achievements





Homework/Home learning
Assemblies – four capacities
Headteacher postcards
Playground Awards
Good to Be Green
A Restorative Approach




Puts repairing harm done to relationships and
people over and above the need for assigning
blame and dispensing punishment.
Gives victims, wrong doers and those around
them a ‘voice’ – fair/positive
Emphasis on ‘we’ is crucial – implies all have
been affected by what has happened;
reaching a resolution
Symbolised
Staged Interventions





Stage 1
Stage 2 – Time to Restore
Stage 3 – Time to Restore (3rd) – HT
Immediate Red Card
Stage 4
Stage 5
Note that this a progression of events unless
the incident has compromised the safety of
individuals within the school.
Respect Me – Anti-Bullying
Policy







Taken seriously
Recorded on care and welfare forms
HT will discuss with all concerned and record
findings & feed back to staff
Parents of children involved will be contacted
by HT
Restorative approach used
Identifying a ‘supporter’.
Monitored
Getting It Right For Every
Child (GIRFEC)
‘We continue to believe that children and young
people learn and grow best in settings in
which they feel happy, confident & safe, and
that central to this is the experience of
positive relationships among all members of
the school community.’
GIRFEC: Strategy for Relationships &
Behaviour: 2011-2016 (Fife Schools)
School Approaches











Good working relationships – Staff/pupil; pupil/pupil
Effective learning and teaching
Appropriate curriculum
Cool in School
Self Regulation
Peer Mediation
Playground Pals
Rights Respecting Schools
Circle Time/Class Meetings
House Captains/Vice Captains
School Committees
How we will achieve our aims?
Collective responsibility.




Pupils
Parents/carers
Staff
Leadership & Management