Positive Behaviour Policy Summary
A parent-friendly summary of the school's positive behaviour policy covering expectations, rewards, sanctions, and how parents can support at home.
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Greenwood International School POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR POLICY SUMMARY Date: 2026-09-01 Dear James Thompson, 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 Greenwood International School, 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, Dr. Robert Williams Principal Greenwood International School
About This Template
A parent-facing summary of the behaviour policy: rewards, sanctions, the bullying route and how home communication works.
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Topics this template covers: behaviour policy · positive behaviour · school rules · parent guide
How to Use This Template
Set Date and Policy Effective Date, then describe Core Expectations as the small number of rules you actually enforce. Complete Rewards System before Sanctions — parents judge a policy by whether it notices good behaviour first.
Explain Sanctions as a ladder with realistic timeframes, and finish How Parents Can Support with specific actions (signging planners, reinforcing dress code, contacting the year team early). Sign with Principal Name, distribute at term start, and repeat the reward language in newsletters so the policy lives beyond the letter.
When to Use This Template
Rolling out a new policy
Draft the expectations and consequences, set an effective date, and send the same formatted document to staff and parents so nobody is working from an older version.
Annual policy review
Pull the last version, update the review date and any changed wording, and reissue with a visible revision trail.
Collecting staff acknowledgment
Issue the policy with a signature or acknowledgment section so every member of staff confirms they have read and understood the current version before the effective date.
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