3. Behaviour & Well-being
3.1 Behaviour and Attitudes
The school's behaviour policy can be found here. Summary for students can be seen below.
3.2 Rewards
Stamps, Credits and Praise emails
Many of our students contribute positively to our school environment. We aim to recognise this frequently, ensuring they receive more messages of praise than reprimand.
The PD rewards system allows students to gather STAMPS and CREDITS for demonstrating positive behaviour. Frequent positive recognition of student achievement will be placed on Arbor. All teaching and non-teaching staff will operate within this system.
As each student gathers more STAMPS and CREDITS they will receive greater recognition and rewards.
STAMPShows as a Level 1 Positive in Arbor. |
CREDITShows as a Level 2 Positive in Arbor. |
PRAISE EMAILShows as a Level 3 Positive in Arbor. |
SENIOR STAFF PRAISE |
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Given by staff at any point in lessons or around school. |
Automatically awarded for every 10 stamps ALSO
Individual ‘Credits’ are awarded by staff for noteworthy achievements (eg: Weekly clean slate, 100% Attendance, Showing respect). |
Every 5 Credits will see a Praise email sent to parents/ carers congratulating the student on their positive approach to school. |
The number of Praise emails will be monitored. At various triggers, additional praise will be given to students. This may take different formats in different years. For example: Certificates, commendations, prizes, celebration activities. |
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Can be viewed on Arbor |
Can be viewed on Arbor |
Email to parents. Also viewed on Arbor. |
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10 Stamps across school = 1 CreditLeads to → |
5 Credits = Praise emailLeads to → |
Repeated Praise emails= Extra PraiseLeads to → |
All faculties are required to publish their criteria for issuing STAMPS so that this information is available to students. STAMPS must not be awarded for good behaviour. This is an expectation of all students. Furthermore, it is important to guard against the premature or commonplace awarding of STAMPS which would serve only to undermine their significance. It is suggested that no more than 5 stamps per student be issued each lesson.
Students with zero incidents in the previous week will receive a clean slate CREDIT from their form tutor each week. An Attendance CREDIT will also be awarded to many students each week - this will, in most cases, be to reward 100% attendance. In some cases, it may be more appropriate and encouraging to award it for improved attendance or perseverance, this is at the form tutor’s discretion. These will be added to Arbor by the tutor.
Within the above, to recognise and encourage students to achieve STAMPS and CREDITS, any student that has an after-school detention and - in the five days prior to that detention - has received a praise email at Level 3 (achieved for 5 credits) can use that to reduce their detention by 10 minutes.
Beyond the above system of ongoing rewards there are other rewards that are available throughout the year. These include:
Staff praise emails
Each half term staff will be encouraged to send praise emails to parents/ carers and/ or students. There are a range of factors that can lead to a praise email – examples include improved effort, or behaviour, a positive attitude to learning and praise for a particular piece of work.
Postcards
Each term largely, but not exclusively, based on stamps records, commended students will receive a subject ‘postcard’ which will be sent direct to their home. No more than three or four students from each group will be identified each term. Furthermore, pastoral staff are also encouraged to identify students who can be awarded this additional recognition. Space will be left for a comment and signature.
Fortnightly Prize Draw
Each fortnight there will be a prize draw in assembly from which at least two students from each year group will be awarded a further prize to acknowledge their positive behaviour. To be eligible students must have had zero negative incidents in the previous fortnight.
School Badges
A range of badges are available to draw attention to students who do repeatedly make positive contributions to school life. These are awarded to students who:
- Represent the school for a sustained period in Sport and Music.
- Demonstrate the school vision and values (Respect, Flourish and Achieve)
- Are involved in student leadership roles.
We encourage students to wear these around school with pride.
Regular Positive gatherings
Students regularly receiving praise will be invited to positive in school events (eg: Breakfast with SLT) where their achievements will be celebrated.
SLT Praise
All members of SLT are attached to year groups. Each member of the SLT will visit or receive students from each of their attached form groups during the year to hand out additional praise. Students who are working exceptionally can be referred on to the Headteacher.
Awards Ceremonies
Termly year group awards assemblies will be held, culminating in an ‘end-of-year’ year group award ceremony that takes place in July. Furthermore, each December the school holds it’s annual ‘Celebration Evening’ to which students from all years are invited to attend to celebrate the successes of the previous year.
Celebration Events/Trips
Students who have achieved at least five Praise emails and who have not served a serious sanction are offered the opportunity to go on a reward trip to recognise their effort. Some students may be required to reflect further on their behaviour record before being offered the opportunity to attend the reward trip. Further reward events may also be offered during the year. Students who have met the criteria that apply (likely linked to high numbers of stamps/ credits, low numbers of incidents) will be eligible for these as and when.
3.3 Sanctions
Our sanctions system is in place to support students in ‘making the right decision’. Most of our students rarely interact with the sanctions system. Sanctions escalate in seriousness, as shown below. Few students at Prince Henry’s get beyond the green base of the pyramid below. The attachment here shows you the most common sanction for a range of misdemeanours.
Within the green base of the pyramid, sanctions can be added to students in one of three areas:
Red Incidents
Where learning is being hindered students will receive an initial verbal warning, then a RED incident will be added should disruptive behaviour repeat. Any five red incidents over a fortnight, across all subjects studied, will automatically lead to an after-school detention. Each lesson starts fresh with students given a verbal warning if they cause disruption to learning. An example of the stages a student could move through in one lesson is below...
Verbal Warning
You will clearly be told you have been given a ‘VERBAL WARNING’. At this stage nothing further happens – if you make the right choice. However, if you continue to impact learning negatively, you will be given a…
1st RED incident
This will be recorded on Arbor and your parents/ carers will be notified. Nothing further will happen if you make the right choice. However, if you continue to impact learning negatively, you will be given a…
2nd RED incident
This will be recorded on Arbor and your parents/ carers will be notified. Following a second RED incident in one lesson you will be given a further sanction such as a PRIVATE DETENTION. You are now one step away from receiving a more serious sanction. This can be avoided if you make the right choice. However, if you continue to impact learning negatively, you will be given a…
Faculty Intervention (Phase 4) - 3rd RED INCIDENT
At this point, despite three clear warnings (one verbal, two RED incidents), you will be removed from the lesson to work in a different classroom. We will not allow you to spoil the learning environment further. You will then be given an after-school detention and the two RED incidents received earlier in the lesson will go into the combined fortnightly count, where a 5th incident will lead to another after-school detention.
Each lesson starts fresh with you given a verbal warning for your first disruption to learning, followed by the next RED INCIDENT for you.
The above system represents most of the interaction with PD our staff will utilise, and students will experience.
Students removed from a lesson and continuing to cause a disturbance will be collected by a member of senior staff and will be removed to the Reflection room where you will remain for a period of time (usually one day).
Yellow Incidents
Yellow incidents can be assigned by staff in a lesson or around school. They tend to cover organisational issues such as:
- Equipment Concerns
- Late to school
- Late to lessons
- None completion of Home Learning
- Uniform misdemeanours
- Poor conduct around school (eg: being in the wrong place at the wrong time)
Staff will advise you are getting a YELLOW incident on Arbor.
Yellow incidents are collated in categories and 6 in any one of the above areas will lead to an after-school detention being given. Repeated incidents in one of those categories will lead to further sanctions (eg: compulsory attendance at Home Learning club; the requirement to wear trousers instead of a skirt)
Behaviour Incidents
Behaviour incidents can be assigned by staff in lessons or around school. They tend to cover more concerning, disrespectful or dangerous behaviour. For example:
- Deliberate littering
- iPad used inappropriately
- Mobile Phone seen
- Stealing
- Assault
- Truancy
Staff will advise you are getting a BEHAVIOUR incident with confirmation of the sanction following once the Year Manager has reviewed it.
Students that repeatedly get incidents will build up detentions, time in Reflection and move up the pyramid shown above, meaning further interventions and meetings with parents/ carers are likely to follow.
Make the right choices! Benefit from the many positives school has to offer!
3.4 Mobile Phones
Mobile phones should be switched off and out of sight from the moment students enter the school grounds in the morning until they leave the school building at 3pm. School use iPads are allowed in school.
Any student's mobile phone or earphones that are visible inside the school grounds during normal school hours will be confiscated complete with the sim card, placed in an envelope and securely locked away.
If the mobile phone is not seen, but it is evident that a student, however discreetly, has used a mobile phone, or has not turned the phone off, we will confiscate the phone complete with sim card.
Students will be able to collect their mobile phone from the Main Office at the end of the day, if it is their first offence. It will be confiscated until Friday 3pm for subsequent offences.
3.5 Bullying and Speak Up
Bullying
If you feel you are being bullied, tell an adult as well as your friends. You should expect that if an incident is reported to a teacher, it will be quickly and thoroughly investigated. The most obvious people for you to go to for help and advice are our Form Tutor, Year Manager and Key Stage Director - that's what they are there for. You can also use the Speak Up! button on Sharepoint.
If you are being bullied, tell a member of staff and tell your parents/carers. D not suffer in silence.
You can also access help by going to Mindmate. This website offers support on a number of things, such as stress, anxiety and low mood.
Remember - 'a problem shared is a problem halved'. Use the Speak Up! button.
Cyber Bullying
The bully sometimes uses ICT, such as mobile phones and the internet to deliberately upset someone else. Only give your mobile number or personal email dress to trusted friends. Keep all your passwords safe at all times. If you become a victim, do not retaliate or reply. Start by blocking the bully. Learn how to block or report someone behaving badly. More importantly, tell someone. Tell your friends and/or an adult you trust at home or at school. The school's anti-bullying policy can be found here.
Use the Speak Up! button.
Speak Up!
We want our school to be a place where everyone:
- feels safe
- feels confident to ask for help
- looks out for one another
- lets us know if there are things which make them feel unhappy or uncomfortable
Speak to your Year Manager or another adult if you are concerned by any situation or behaviours which you experience or witness.
You can also use the Speak Up! button to contact your pastoral team (eg. your Year Manager).
- Seen something that makes you feel uncomfortable?
- People are being unkind?
- Events you have witnessed are making you anxious?
- Ask us for advice
- Keep us in the loop
- Unsure who to speak to?
- Press the button on Sharepoint and Speak Up!
Someone will then be in touch to discuss your concern. This might not be straight away, so please do not use the Speak Up! button in an emergency.
3.6 Supporting your well-being
Well-being Support
There is a range of support available to you in school and beyond. You can find it here.
The School Nursing Service
Now you are getting older, you are becoming more responsible for looking after your health. The School Nursing Service is here to help you make healthy choices in the years ahead.
Your school health team is there to support you throughout your time at school:
- to talk to
- to find the right help for you when you need it
- to support your teachers to meet your health needs
- to support you with health issues
This is a completely confidential service:
- even if you are under 16, we will keep everything you tell us private
- we will not discuss any information about you with anyone else, unless you agree for us to do so
- in very exceptional circumstances, if you or any other person's safety is at risk, we may need to tell someone else. If this is the case, we will tell you exactly what we intend to do.
Please contact your local School Nursing Service for advice or information or with any concerns. Or you could ask someone in school to contact us for you.