Every week the school has a “Fab assembly” in which one person from each class is chosen to be “star of the week” and this is presented by the head teacher and a certificate is given out. There are also special mentions given out and star lunches for children who have eaten well at lunch time. They get to sit on a special table the following week and are given treats like biscuits/breadsticks and juice instead of water.
Attendance is monitored very closely. Holidays are not permitted during term time and are not authorised if requested. Although the school does not permit these holidays they allow up to a maximum of 2 weeks off and after which this is monitored much more closely. If a child is ill/absent, the parent/carer must contact the school before 10:30am otherwise the school will then contact you to find out firstly why no contact has been made and secondly why they are not at school.
The behaviour of teachers/volunteers/teaching assistants is also monitored closely and they have set procedures to follow on how to deal with challenging behaviour, how they should behave around their pupils and what to do in certain situations.
Unit 1.2
Describe with examples the importance of all staff consistently and fairly applying boundaries and rules for children and young people’s behaviour in accordance with the policies and procedures of the setting.
It is important that staff apply the same rules and boundaries to all children within their age group/class so that all children are treated fairly and know what is expected of them. It would be impossible to have a different rule for each child because each child would then behave in its own way and it would be impossible to control a class of 30 children. Each rule or boundary needs to be age appropriate for example a class of 7-8 year olds would have different rules and boundaries compared to a class of 2-3 year olds because their understandings are so different. One example is if a group of 7-8 year olds are doing some colouring in. They would know to take it in turns and share the colours and ask with manners to use one that someone else has. Where as a group of 2-3 year olds are only just starting to learn about sharing so would easily just take the crayon from another child without thinking that is wrong.
As I mentioned earlier, the class I support has a “recipe” for making a good class. This is displayed on the wall so that everyone is reminded what is expected on them. The class decided as a group what would make a good class so because the children came up with the ingredients for this it is appropriate for their age. The teacher has put it up on the wall in the words that the children used. When there is a little set back in class the teacher gets the class to read that particular part of the recipe to remind the children of what they decided makes a good class. Although this is suitable for these KS1 children it would be too immature for KS2 children and too mature for Foundation stage children. This is why age appropriate rules and boundaries are very important.
In the Foundation stage they have clouds for their behaviour. All children start the day on the happy cloud, then depending on their behaviour they either remain on the happy cloud or could move to the “thinking cloud” or further still the “sad cloud”. By this age they understand what happy and sad means and are just starting to learn the understanding of thinking about what they have done and why they should not have done it.