Positive Behaviour Policy Summary

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR POLICY SUMMARY Date: Dear , We believe that a positive, supportive environment helps every student thrive. This summary outlines our behaviour policy and how you can support it at home. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CORE EXPECTATIONS At {{school_name}}, we expect all students to: 1. Be ready to learn — arrive on time with correct equipment 2. Be respectful — treat others as you wish to be treated 3. Be safe — keep hands, feet, and objects to yourself 4. Be honest — tell the truth and take responsibility 5. Be kind — support others and celebrate success ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REWARDS SYSTEM We recognise and celebrate positive behaviour: • Achievement points: Awarded for meeting expectations • Merit certificates: Weekly celebration in assembly • Star awards: Monthly recognition for outstanding effort • House points: Termly competition between houses • Principal's award: Termly for exceptional contribution • End-of-year celebration: Annual awards evening ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SANCTIONS When expectations are not met, we use a graduated response: 1. Verbal warning 2. Achievement point deducted 3. Quiet word with teacher 4. Detention (15 minutes) 5. Parent contact 6. Behaviour report card 7. Internal isolation 8. Fixed-term exclusion 9. Permanent exclusion (last resort) Sanctions are always proportionate and allow students to reflect and improve. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW PARENTS CAN SUPPORT You can help by: • Reinforcing our expectations at home • Contacting us if there are issues affecting your child's behaviour • Attending parent-teacher meetings • Supporting sanctions fairly — ask your child what happened • Celebrating achievements and good behaviour at home • Modelling respectful communication ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The full behaviour policy is available on our website or from the school office. Yours sincerely, Principal