Behaviour Rewards and Sanctions

The main means of rewarding children for outstanding work, a positive growth mindset and an excellent attitude to school is through ‘stamps’: teachers will initial the chart in children’s diaries and twenty stamps equate to one House Point.  Throughout the year, certificates are presented to pupils by their House Captains for the House Points they earn.  Additionally, the children from each year with the most stamps at the end of the year receives a prestigious Governors’ Award.  The Headteacher’s award is also presented at the end of the year to the child in each year group who made the most progress across a range of subjects. 
 
Our behaviour policy allows for children to be given reminders about their behaviour in classrooms; however, if a child’s behaviour in a lesson is persistently inappropriate and disruptive he/she will be issued with a sanction.  This is recorded in his/her diary and usually results in seeing the teacher at break or lunchtime.  Sanctions can also be issued instantly for serious breaches of our behaviour expectations (e.g. aggression, fighting, theft, damaging property, bullying and rudeness to staff.  Sometimes such incidents result in longer detentions, internal exclusion (isolation from peers for a fixed period) or external exclusion from school.  You would be notified of any such incident.