transforming behaviour in your school

Jeremy Rowe Sir John Leman High School

Bett 2014

Friday, 24 January 2014

• 1475 students: 0 FTEs

• £100k pa saved

• Rise in staff attendance, student attendance and Year Seven applications

• Exam results

“STOP! Or I’ll shout stop again!”

Robin Williams

SIX KEY BELIEFS

Belief one

All students do all detentions

•Detentions are to repair and rebuild

•Abolition of headteacher detentions

• Students are internally excluded if they do not do them but … they cannot return until they have done the original detention

which brings us to …

Belief two

NEVER lose sight of the primary focus

• Subject departments are responsible for behaviour in their lessons

• The hat, phone, homework … must be resolved before the student can go back to normal lessons

• Study focus

Belief three

Discipline should be SMART,

loving and relentless

What does that look like?

• Silent fire drill

• Senior staff visiting students’ homes

• No need to raise voices

• Non-verbal communication

• All staff invited to do patrol

• Strategic use of SIMS

• Guarantees to parents, children and staff

Belief four

Fixed-term exclusions weren’t working

Inclusion Room

• Formal letters

• Readmittance interviews/do not always readmit

• “Not on the students’ records”

•Huge parental support

• (Students might not actually like it …)

Belief five

Students will behave as well or as badly as we accept

Belief six

Behaviour & learning are two sides of the same coin

(Belief Seven!)

• These beliefs will only transform a school when used strategically – and often patiently!

• It will be impossible without three critical bits of equipment:

Behaviour timeline

Behaviour policy

• If you stop rowing, don’t be surprised if everyone else in the boat stops rowing too.

• The 99% are the ones who need to define your school, but they need platforms to do it from. They are waiting for the chance.

BELIEF

Sorting Out Behaviour

A head teacher’s guide

Jrowe@sjlhs.suffolk.sch.uk

Crown House Publishing

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