Behaviour
Good behaviour in schools is central to a good education. Across the GLA, we understand that our schools and staff need to manage behaviour well to provide calm, safe, and supportive environments where children want to attend and where they can learn and thrive.
In our school we:
- have the highest expectations of pupil behaviour to maximise their opportunity to achieve
- ensure all pupils develop excellent learning habits that they need to be successful in school and in life
- realise and celebrate the potential of all pupils through promoting independence and high self-esteem, which enables students to reach their full potential
- create an environment in which students are enabled to become mature, self-disciplined, reflective and able to accept responsibility for their own actions
- have a zero-tolerance approach to bullying and work hard to create a positive and safe learning environment
- have robust systems in place to support, promote and reward positive behaviour
- form an active and positive partnership with parents and carers to support their child’s learning
The team in school strive to ensure every pupil is treated as an individual – we get to know your child and what makes them tick. We use this understanding of them to empower them to achieve all that they are capable of and turn their potential into success. We view success itself as holistic – from scoring well in a spelling test to building positive friendships to having great manners. We love celebrating success in all shapes and forms!
We celebrate:
- daily using teachers praise and classroom rewards – we like to catch the children being good!
- the WOW wall in the Head teacher’s office – this is where extra “special” work is celebrate with a child
- our weekly celebration assembly which each year group has an achieve your best and be your best
- we also celebrate the class with the best attendance and the House with the highest house points earns a end of term treat
We use our flying high motto at all times with children to ensure that they can positively achieve their best, be their best and celebrate their best.
This is further underpinned by our values which are used at all times with children to reinforce the school expectations:
Are you…
Being respectful?
Being honest?
Being kind?
Being determined?
Being responsible?
Mend It Meetings
If things go wrong, which they sometimes will, we coach the children through discussion and problem solving (Mend it Meetings) to solve the issues themselves with limited guidance. We teach the children to see all perspectives of an issue and what led up to a situation before finding a solution together.
What we expect children to uphold:
Be Respectful
We uphold the rights of the individual within the school community and seek to develop high levels of mutual respect.
We treat others how we would like to be treated.
Be honest
We encourage children to be honest at all times, it is better to learn from a mistake than to compound it.
We try to ensure that children feel safe enough to be able to admit when mistakes have been made so that they can reflect and learn from these.
Be Kind
We insist all children in school are kind to one another and staff always look to ‘catch children being good’.
We do not tolerate any form of bullying, harassment, intimidation or racism.
Be Determined
We work with our children to build their resilience with a determination to succeed.
We encourage children to try new things and embrace new challenges, recognising mistakes we may make along the way are just stepping stones to greater successes.
Be Responsible
We encourage children to take responsibility for their own behaviour and learn through the language of ‘choice and consequence’.
Positive choices earn praise and recognition; negative choices lead to reflection and discipline.
Daisy's Dragons
At LPPA we take children’s mental health very seriously. We use a self-regulation system that children can access at lots of points during the day to show us how they are feeling. They do this by taking their name from the dragon’s cave and show which feeling they currently have by putting it on the relevant dragon.
To do this we use a story called Daisy's Dragons. This helps the children to identify and understand their emotions based on the dragon analogy. Daisy has six dragons who represent her feelings: Happy, Angry, Sad, Calm, Brave and Scared. We have added a seventh – who is all mixed up!! No-one can see her dragons (feelings) and they get bigger and smaller dependent on her mood. We help children recognise that these feelings are all okay and needed in order to be a healthy person. We teach them ways to display their emotions safely so that they can manage their feelings and what to do if they are not balanced. Teachers and Teaching assistants monitor the chart and check in with children if their emotions are not where we expect them to be. This also is a non-verbal way to ask for help which we feel is vitally important for some children.
We want our children to leave Longford Park Primary Academy as well-rounded individuals who can hold their own in any situation.