GOOD BEHAVIOUR (REWARDS AND CONSEQUENCES) POLICY 03/09/15

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1 GOOD BEHAVIOUR (REWARDS AND CONSEQUENCES) POLICY 03/09/15

2 GOOD BEHAVIOUR (REWARDS AND CONSEQUENCES) POLICY Purpose of the Policy The purpose of the Good Behaviour (Rewards and Consequences) Policy is to create a positive, caring and learning environment for everyone within our community by: Demonstrating good behaviour and discipline in all areas of College life. Ensuring all members of the community are shown respect and show respect for others. Encouraging a positive approach to behaviour through a clear rewards process that is consistently applied by all staff. Ensuring all staff consistently implement procedures for rewards and consequences fairly and consistently. Endeavouring to ensure all members of the College work and learn in a safe and clean environment; it is the responsibility of everyone to ensure that this is maintained. The outcomes of the policy will be: To promote behaviour for learning that enables success within the classroom, as well as behaviour for life that prepares young people for the world around them. To support students to achieve personal academic success To help students to grow into caring, tolerant and respectful young people who are valued members of their community. The Impington Experience Code of Conduct The Code of Conduct is based on the Impington experience and underpins everything we strive to achieve through good discipline. High Expectation: All students will strive to achieve at the highest level possible. This will be achieved by being on time, in correct uniform, prepared to learn with full equipment, ambitious, proud of our community, caring and patient, and intolerant of bad behaviour. Enjoy and Engage: All students have a right to enjoy College life. The expectation is that all students are kind, warm, pleasant, tidy, cheerful and orderly in College. Challenging: All students will be prepared for the challenges College life brings and persevere even when things are difficult. Inclusive: All students will be comfortable and safe within College. Within our community we will celebrate difference, be tolerant and kind, understand the needs of individuals and show respect to all. Differentiated: All students will be open to try different ideas and approaches. Excellent Progress: All students will know their College targets and be willing to take and act on feedback. Continually striving to be the best they can. Complete all class and homework to the best of their ability on time.

3 Rewards and celebrating achievement Impington Village College believe that rewarding students positive behaviour and application is the most effective way to raise self-esteem and motivation, and have a significant impact in promoting a positive learning environment. All students need to feel that their achievements are recognised. Rewards should outweigh sanctions by a ratio of 5:1. (Appendix 2 Behaviour for Learning Rewards and Praise) Consequences For students who do not meet the expectations of the code of conduct will receive a sanction following the Behaviour for Learning Discipline Consequence Stages. (Appendix 1)

4 Behaviour for Learning Rewards and Praise PRINCIPAL S COMMENDATION Awarded for outstanding service/effort to enhance the wider College life PRINCIPAL S HIGH TEA Awarded for outstanding academic achievement Awarded to the five students with the most house points per term Awarded By: Principal and CET Heads of House and Faculty Leaders All Staff FACULTY AWARDS Outstanding achievement and effort for each year group per term HEADS OF HOUSE HOUSE POINTS CERTIFICATES 25 House Points Bronze 50 House Points Silver 75 House Points Gold 100 House Points Platinum COMMUNITY AWARDS Awarded by Heads of School for Service to the Community WRITTEN PRAISE Students will receive written praise and feedback for class and homework HOUSE POINTS Staff will award house points for a range of reasons PRAISE POSTCARDS Praise postcard will be sent home to reward consistent good effort and achievement 5 house points will be awarded for each praise postcard. VERBAL PRAISE Students will receive praise through staff s verbal feedback. Staff will call home to communicate with parents/carers.

5 Stage 7 Permanent Exclusion or Managed Move Gross misconduct towards student or staff Continued/repeated high level indiscipline Behaviour for Learning Discipline consequence stages Stage 4 Stage 5 Record as S4 in SIMS under student name Stage 6 Consequence: External exclusion for a fixed period * Directed swearing or physical aggression towards staff A single serious incident or continual /repeated Stage 4/5 behaviours Behaviour that endangers the safety or wellbeing of other staff or students Consequence: Isolation. The student is removed from all lessons, and social interaction throughout a full day. Serious or repeated examples of Stage 3 or 4 incidents Smoking on or around the site or leaving site without permission Truancy or leaving a lesson without permission Consequence: 120 minute after College detention Failure to comply with Stage 3 leading to call for SANDRE Physical or aggressive behaviour towards anyone Repeated unkind or hurtful comments/verbal abuse amounting to bullying (context could mean Stage 5 or 6 sanctions apply) Principal Approved and recorded by CET. CET will judge whether incidents warrant S4 or S5 consequences. Stage 3 Record as S3 in SIMS under student name Consequence: 60 minute after College detention Disruption to learning requiring Faculty referral (only after Stage 2) Verbal aggression/intimidating behaviour towards staff Damage to College property Unkind or hurtful comment/verbal abuse amounting to bullying All teachers but recorded by Heads of House and Faculty Lead Teachers after Faculty Referral System has been applied. Stage 2 Record as S2 in SIMS under student name Stage 1 Consequence: 30 minute after College detention Continued disruption to learning (after Stage 1) Failure to follow clear staff instructions (after Stage 1) Rudeness towards staff or students Continued (second incidence or more) lateness to a lessons Failure to follow uniform policy Continued (second incidence or more) lack of equipment Verbal Warning. Where learning behaviours do not meet our expectations, a warning should be clearly delivered by the member of staff verbally, giving the student the choice to comply or face further consequences. All subject teachers, cover teachers or duty staff Every Stage 2 5 incident must be recorded on SIMS by the member of staff. Students should record sanctions in their planners but this is the responsibility of the student and failure to do so is not a valid reason for non attendance to detentions or other sanctions. Please note that this list is by no means exhaustive or exclusive. Consequences to incidents will be issued based on the context and circumstances.

6 Monitor Behaviour / Reports The College uses a range of reports to promote, monitor and engage students discipline. Specific target setting is vital in promoting good discipline. Faculty Report Learning Tutor Report Head of House Report Individual Behaviour Plan (IBP) Personalised Behaviour Plan/ Pastoral Support Plan Managed by the class teacher and Faculty Leader to focus students learning within a specific curriculum area. Managed by the Learning tutor to focus students and provide support. Failure to engage will result in progression to Head of House Report. Managed by the Head of House to provide clear targets and focus for students. An IBP is to focus a student s learning in the curriculum area. Targets will be agreed by the leading member of staff, student and parents. Failure to meet targets will result in the student moving to the next stage. This is used for students who are not meeting IBP targets. Amended provisions and external agencies may be used to support progress. Managed by Head of Personalised Learning and CET. IBP Level One Managed by a member of CET. IBP Level Two Managed by the Head of House. IBP Level Three Managed by the House Manager.

7 IMPINGTON VILLAGE COLLEGE EXCLUSIONS, REMOVAL FROM MAINSTREAM LESSONS AND ISOLATION POLICY This document should be read in conjunction with the College s Good Behaviour (Rewards and Consequences) Policy. Exclusion Definition of exclusion: the Principal decides that a student is placed out of College for a fixed or permanent period as a consequence of unacceptable or unmanageable behaviour. During a period of fixed term exclusion work will be provided by the College for the student to complete. The kinds of behaviour that could result in exclusion are: Stealing Major environmental damage Verbal /physical abuse including racial, sexist, religious and homophobic abuse towards student(s) / staff Despite all sanctions, students persist in blatant disregard of the IVC Code of Conduct Students are caught in possession of alcohol, weapons or illegal substances Disruption of an examination. Excluded status is not the same as short-term isolation or removal from mainstream lessons. Exclusion is noted on a student s record and has to be reported on transfer to other educational establishments. Exclusion can be fixed term: a period of 1 5 days depending on the seriousness of the incident. In exceptional circumstances, a student could be fixed term excluded for more than 5 days, but the College would make educational provision. Following a fixed term exclusion parents MUST attend a re-admission interview before a student is reinstated in mainstream lessons. Permanent exclusion (from mainstream school at the College) means a recommendation has been given by the Principal to exclude a student permanently from College. The College very rarely will move to permanent exclusion, which would acknowledge that the relationship between the College and a student is irrevocably broken. Any of the following could result from such a recommendation: Permanent exclusion could be avoided because the College, the LA and parents agree a managed move to another school using the Managed Move Protocol The student s case could be referred to the South Cambs Inclusion Partnership panel to determine an education placement outside of the College. Permanent exclusion from Impington Village College. Only the Principal can approve the exclusion of a student and s/he should only do so having considered the following: 1. The nature of the offence 2. Whether the matter has been investigated properly (written statements, witness statements all considered) and the balance of proof satisfied 3. The student s version of events heard and recorded 4. Any mitigating circumstances or special considerations weighed (eg SEND) 5. The previous involvement of the Student Support Team and if there is a CAF for the student 6. Whether alternative strategies have been previously deployed 7. Who else might need to be consulted (SENCo, ESLAC teachers, social worker, child protection officer) 8. Precedents regarding length of exclusion.

8 Notification of exclusion When the Principal has decided to exclude the College will: Inform the parent by telephone straight away Write an exclusion letter based on the LA template and ensure that it is received no later than the following day. Managed Move Protocol A managed move instead of a permanent exclusion may be suitable for some students, especially for students for whom a fresh start might enable them to achieve. IVC follows the LA protocol for managed moves. Governors Discipline Committee The Discipline Committee is responsible for reviewing the decision of the Principal to permanently exclude a student. Parents are informed by the exclusion letter that they have the right to have an exclusion reviewed. The Discipline Committee has limited powers to either uphold or overturn the Principal s decision to permanently exclude. Typically would not expect Discipline Committee to reinstate a student who has been permanently excluded for: Serious actual or threatened violence against another student or member of staff Sexual abuse or assault Supplying an illegal drug Carrying an offensive weapon Persistent and defiant misbehaviour including bullying (which would include racist and homophobic bullying) or repeated possession and/or use of alcohol, and an illegal drug on school premises. Independent Appeal Panel The role of the Independent Appeal Panel is to review the permanent exclusion and Discipline Committee decision. An Appeal Panel may: Uphold the decision to exclude; or Direct immediate reinstatement or reinstatement at some future date Isolation Isolation is used to sanction disruptive behaviour around College for less serious infringements of the College Code of Conduct. Students are given work to do in a room away from their peers for no more than one College day and sometimes as little as a single lesson. Isolation is also used to allow staff and students a cooling down period or to allow an incident to be investigated. Isolation is recorded and reported to parents but is not passed on as part of a student s record. There is no need for a reintegration or readmission meeting following a period of isolation. Appendices (kept in College exclusion protocol folder) 1. The Managed Move Protocol 2. Model letters to parents

9 Impington believes that all students have the right to learn in a supportive, caring and safe environment without fear of being bullied. All students must follow the College s Code of Conduct/Behaviour policies. Students know that bullying in any form is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Policies & Guidance Bulling Prevention Policy WHAT?! It is a deliberate victimisation, which is on-going. Bullying can occur through several types of anti-social behaviours. It can be: physical, direct verbal, indirect verbal, damage to personal property or theft. If you know someone is being bullied: TAKE ACTION! Watching and doing nothing looks as if you are on the side of the bully. It makes the victim feel more unhappy and on their own. If you feel you cannot get involved, tell an adult immediately. This can be your Tutor or Head of House. Do not be, or pretend to be, friends with a bully. As a Parent/Carer Always take an active role in your child s education. Enquire how their day has gone, who they spent time with, how lunchtime was spent etc. If you feel your child may be a victim of bullying, inform the College immediately. Your complaint will be taken seriously and appropriate action will follow. It is important that you advise your child not to fight back. It can make matters worse. Remember that your silence is the bully s greatest weapon! If you are being bullied you must tell an adult immediately. Speak to your parent/carer and ask them to contact your Tutor or Head of House. At Impington Village College we care about you and do not want any student feeling scared and insecure. We also have professionals who attend the College who you can speak to and who will support you in speaking to an adult. If you are being bullied: - Tell yourself that you do not deserve to be bullied, and that it is wrong. - Be proud of who you are. It is good to be individual. - Try not to show that you are upset. It is hard, but a bully thrives on someone s fear. At College.. We treat bullying as a serious offence and take every possible action to eradicate it from o u r College. Any child who is found guilty of bulling will be dealt with firmly. We use opportunities to discuss aspects of bullying within the College curriculum and appropriate ways to behave towards each other, for example, during PSHE, English and Ethics lessons. We deal quickly, firmly and fairly with any complaints, involving parents/carers at all times. Action to be taken when Bullying is Suspected If bullying is suspected we talk to the suspected victim, the suspected bully and any witnesses. If any degree of bullying is identified, help, support, restorative meeting and guidance will be given as is appropriate to both victims and the bullies. A senior member of staff will investigate the incident in accordance with College policy.