Behaviour Management

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Hokowhitu School

Behaviour Management Policy

The Board of Trustees will:

provide a safe physical and emotional environment for both students and school staff.
ensure that teachers and students are able to teach and learn effectively, without the undue stress of inappropriate student behaviour.
through the school staff, shall promote a school environment where positive behaviours are encouraged and students are expected to take responsibility for their own behaviour. The school will be a place where all people and property are valued and treated with respect.

Supporting Legislation and Documentation

Behaviour Management

Behaviour management systems will have transparent choices and consequences.
The aim of all behaviour management processes will be to encourage children to behave appropriately in the present and the future. Therefore counselling will be used as the first option to deal with inappropriate behaviour.
The Virtues Project will be used by all teachers in the classroom and in the playground, to foster positive behavioural attributes.
Expectations regarding behaviour are summarised in our STAR programme. STAR is reinforced regularly in classrooms and at team and school assemblies. Each week one of the STAR expectations will become a special focus throughout the school.
Children (Year 4 to 6) who are unwilling to obey school rules will be sent to the Time Out room.

Notes:

Younger children who tend not to understand a delayed consequence will require more immediate consequences e.g. immediate removal from the playground.
Time Out is only to be used for breaches of school rules. Class teachers will develop their own behaviour management systems for in-class issues.
Time Out is held in the meeting room in the administration area on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week.
Children who are sent to Time Out are expected to sit quietly and fill out a sheet explaining their behaviour. This will be sent home to parents that afternoon, to be signed by parents and returned to school. The Deputy Principal will monitor compliance of this.
Names and behaviours will be recorded in a folder and then this data will be entered in SchoolMaster by the Deputy Principal.

Severe Behaviour

The Principal will will deal with severe behaviour problems.

Options:

Children may be required to attend an 30 minute after school detention the following afternoon. Parents will be informed of this in writing.
Parents may be invited to come in to discuss, with their child and the principal, the behaviours that are causing concern. An action plan may be developed during this conference. This could include involving other agencies.
As a last resort, stand downs and suspensions will be considered, following the requirements of the Education Act 1989.