Behaviour

At Clapton Girls’ Academy, our vision for behaviour is to provide an approach that is fully inclusive, flexible and compassionate but boundaried with high expectations, offering stability, predictability and structure which enables all students to experience a sense of belonging, resulting in achievement for all.

We have a clear behaviour policy and behaviour code so that all students can make excellent progress.

Behaviour Code

Our 3 Golden Rules for behaviour and Behaviour Thermometer are displayed as posters in all classrooms giving students a clear and consistent message of how they are expected to behave.

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Behaviour thermometer

Behaviour thermometer

Every opportunity is taken to recognise and celebrate students' achievements in their learning, behaviour and general contributions to school life. Rewards used include: teacher praise, reward points, good news cards, certificates and end of term and year awards presented in end of term assemblies.

The consequences of poor behaviour include referrals, reports, detentions and exclusions, indicated on the behaviour thermometer.

Restorative conversations

We recognise that sometimes students do not behave as positively as they should or would like and every effort is made to support students to put things right as quickly as possible.

In order to achieve this we make sure that restorative conversations take place when something has gone wrong. This simply means that students and staff reflect on, and discuss, what went wrong and why, what the impact of this may have been and what can be done in the future to put things right and prevent the same thing from happening again.

Five useful questions used across the academy:

  1. What happened?

  2. What were you thinking at the time?

  3. What have you thought since?

  4. How did this make people feel?

  5. Who has been affected?

  6. How have they been affected?

  7. What should you do to put things right in the future?

  8. How can we do things differently in the future?

 

Learning behaviour grades

Teachers grade students’ behaviour, effort and quality of homework when school reports are sent to parents/carers. The table below gives an understanding of the grades.