Warm-Strict Behaviour

Warm Strict Behaviour Policy

Our Behaviour Policy ensures consistency in practice throughout the academy, helping all community members understand and follow the behaviour system. It defines acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, outlines rewards, and emphasises the importance of choices and consequences.

Key Objectives:

Ensure the safety, wellbeing, and success of all students.
Support students through interventions, positive relationships, and a focus on learning.
Maintain high expectations for staff and students to achieve the ‘Best in Everyone’.

Core Values:

Ambition
Determination
Respect

The policy supports students in exhibiting these values and reflecting on breaches. It considers duties under the Equality Act 2010 and the needs of pupils with special educational needs, in line with the SEND Code of Practice 2015. Safeguarding policies are also taken into account.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Specific seating positions
Additional direction to stay focused
Support from an additional adult

These adjustments are shared with staff working with individual students.

Behaviour Expectations

If a student fails to adhere to the rules set out by the academy in the classroom during a period of teaching, then the process set out below will be followed. We do not allow students to disrupt the learning of others as we fundamentally believe that every student is entitled to disruption-free lessons.

Our key classroom expectations reflect our core values:

Ambition: Do not settle for anything less than your best.
Determination: Do not give up if you find something difficult.
Respect: Follow all instructions first time, every time.

Warn/Remove System

All students have the right to disruption-free learning. We operate a two-step system which is referred to as Warn/Remove within all lessons.

Warn
If a student disrupts the learning of the class, this will be explained to them calmly and they will be given a clear warning and their name will be recorded on a board at the front of the class as a visible reminder. The student will be reminded of the expectations of the classroom and will be informed that further disruption to the learning of the class will result in them being removed from the lesson.

Remove
If a student continues to disrupt the learning of the class this will be explained to them. The teacher will clearly state that they are being removed from the lesson and the reason why. The member of staff will log the lesson removal on Arbor and students will be instructed to take themselves directly to the Reflection Room (RR).

Moving around the Academy

Students should move around the academy in a calm, safe and purposeful manner. Students and staff are expected to keep to the left, keep quiet and keep moving when in corridors during lesson changeover and at break and lunchtimes. Students are expected to take the most direct route to their lessons. No food should be eaten when moving around the academy building.

In the case of a fire alarm sounding, all students must make their way in a calm and sensible manner to the fire assembly point and line up in single file, in alphabetical order in their tutor group, adopting silence.

Toilets

Students have access to toilets before school, at breaktime, at lunchtime and after school. Staff are able to use their discretion regarding polite requests to visit the toilets during lesson time but leaving a class for this purpose should always be viewed as an exception rather than a rule unless the student in question has a confirmed medical condition or other individual need and has been issued with an academy toilet pass. Students are therefore asked, wherever possible, to ensure they use break and lunchtime to access the toilet to minimise any disruption to learning for themselves or others in their class.

A member of staff is on duty outside the toilets at all times to ensure student behaviour meets expectations and all students feel safe when accessing the toilets. To further support this, students are required to leave mobile phones with the member of staff on duty to remove the temptation to use them in the school building.

As with any part of the school building, any student found to have damaged the toilets may be charged and will be sanctioned as they have not shown respect to our environment.

Praise & Rewards

The academy uses rewards as a strategy to inspire, enthuse and motivate students to fulfil their
potential. Our aim is for all lessons to be rewards led. The use of rewards should be used before
sanctions in order to develop a positive ethos in the classroom and around the building. Praise and rewards are linked to effort, willingness, co-operation, thoughtfulness, personal achievement etc. and are given when effort is:

above the standard for that group
above the standard for that student
consistently good

Daily/Weekly Rewards

All academy staff are able to use rewards such as verbal praise, telephone calls to parents, the organisation of letters, texts, emails or postcards to parents and public celebration of success in forums such as special mentions in Assembly and the academy’s Twitter account.

Merits and golden tickets can also be issued by staff both in and out of lessons to reward examples of outstanding achievement, effort or conduct. In addition, established reward systems are in place to recognise students who demonstrate the highest levels of Attitude to Learning (Gold / Silver / Bronze Learners) or who achieve 100% attendance on a weekly basis. Each week, we also hold Proud Friday, where students are encouraged to bring a piece of work that they are proud of for a reward.

Half-termly/Termly Rewards

Positive and negative behaviour incidents are logged on Arbor and are allocated a set number of positive or negative points. These contribute towards overall rewards across a half-term, term or the year as a whole.

To support students to raise standards or maintain high standards from one half-term to the next, the start of each half-term is known, for example, as “Fresh Leaf Monday”. This signifies a resetting of attendance, punctuality and behaviour measures for the purposes of rewards for the half-term ahead and ensures all students begin a new half-term with the opportunity to access potential rewards.

Parents & Students

A Rights Respecting School

At Barnsley Academy, we uphold the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ensuring a community free from intolerance, intimidation, and unkindness. We teach our students and staff the importance of mutual respect and understanding that values and beliefs can evolve.

Key Principles:

Non-discrimination: All students are treated equally (Article 2).
Best Interests: The child's welfare is our top priority (Article 3).
Voice: Children can express their views (Article 12).
Information: Access to safe and reliable information (Article 13 & 17).
Protection: Safeguarding from harm (Article 19).
Support: Care for children with disabilities (Article 23).
Standard of Living: Ensuring physical and mental well-being (Article 27).
Education: Developing talents and respect for rights (Article 29).
Cultural Rights: Celebrating diverse cultures (Article 30).
Recreation: Participation in cultural and recreational activities (Article 31).
Awareness: Knowledge of these rights (Article 42).