When children get a specified number of smileys, they are given a certificate to take home related to their house team which recognises this milestone: Staff have a collective responsibility to support all our children and that as a team we are more likely to create solutions and strategies that are effective. We launched our new topic 'Deadly 60' by thinking about what you might see in animal poo depending if they are a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. Stoke Primary School recognises the importance of strong Mental Health. Teams of staff have been trained in both Youth Mental Health First Aid and Mental Health First Aid.

School is a safe place for children where they will be listened to and challenges discussed openly. His work is quoted in a number of official reports and guidance documents. He is the author of 14 books, and lectured in schools, colleges and universities providing training across the UK, Europe, Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked as a technical advisor for media companies producing dramas and documentaries, including the use of undercover reporters to expose malpractice. Expert Witness in cases involving education, health & safety, learning disability, behaviour management, risk management, safeguarding children & adults, balanced reduction in risk, restraint and restriction, guidance and training in personal safety and physical restraint. The Head Teacher has the right to exclude pupils for a period from 1 to 5 school days BUT each case will be assessed and treated individually and a sanction applied depending on the incidents severity.Unless the registered person can demonstrate that this is not appropriate, the home has procedures and guidance on police involvement in the home, which have been agreed with the local police and which staff are knowledgeable and clear about. The registered person’s policy on the use and techniques of physical restraint and other forms of physical intervention, and the circumstances in which they may be used, is consistent with any relevant government guidance on approved methods of restraint and physical intervention. All staff of the home are aware of, trained in, and follow in practice the registered person’s policy. Training covers reducing or avoiding the need to use physical restraint. All staff have signed a copy of the policy and evidence of this is retained on their personnel file. It is very important that praise and reward should be meaningful to children. Children will achieve more, be better motivated and behave better, when staff praise and reward their successes rather than focus on their failure. Key to all our reward systems is how the children are able to articulate why they have received a reward and what they are continuing to strive for. Measures of control and disciplinary measures are based on establishing positive relationships with children which are designed to help the child. Such measures are fair and consistently applied. They also encourage reparation and restitution and reduce the likelihood of negative behaviour becoming the focus of attention and subsequent disruption to the placement.

For fixed-period exclusions of more than five days the governing body must arrange suitable alternative full-time education, which must begin no later than the sixth day of the exclusion. For permanent exclusions, the pupil’s ‘home’ local authority must provide alternative education.Through detailed investigation sanctions are discussed with all stakeholders to ensure that the planned action is commensurate with the behaviour issue. Consequences are therefore tailored to the situation, but the process follows these principles: He is currently a non-executive director of Team-Teach Ltd, one of the largest providers of training in the prevention and management of risk, restraint and restriction in the UK and abroad, and a member of the board of the Institute of Conflict Management. Where necessary, searching, screening and confiscation will be used to safeguard a child/children at Stoke Primary School. Stoke Primary School adheres to ‘ Searching, Screening and Confiscation: Advice for Schools (May 2018). Teachers need to recognise that effective conditions for learning (planning, pitch, pace, participation etc) will impact positively on general classroom behaviour.

He went on to work with Team Teach Ltd, writing and producing training manuals, course workbooks and videos of physical techniques. If physical intervention of any kind is required, then a record should be completed in the ‘Bound and Numbered’ Book as soon as possible and within 24 hours of the incident. On excluding a pupil, the Head Teacher must immediately notify parents of the exclusion and the reason for it. They must also inform parents of their rights to make representations to the Governing Body. The Governing Body must also be notified of certain exclusions. Physical restraint is only used to prevent likely injury to the child concerned or to others, or likely serious damage to property. Restraint is not used as a punishment, as a means to enforce compliance with instructions, or in response to challenging behaviour which does not give rise to reasonable expectation of injury to someone or serious damage to property. (For schools which are children’s homes, this does not prevent the use of restraint in circumstances permitted by s550A of the Education Act 1996.)Always include children in the discussions of behaviour and consequence so they are able to learn from the situation Where a child’s behaviour is considered high level concern, Stoke Primary School has a range of systems to support the required improvement.

Changing Minds: The Psychology of Managing Challenging Behaviour within an Ethical and Legal Framework The certificates are presented to the children in achievement assemblies as a phase or whole school and then postcards are posted home for parents to celebrate the achievement with them. We consider that open and transparent dialogue allows difficult conversations to take place and that this honesty enables all parties to manage the situation with respect to their own mental health.Any other incident deemed ‘serious’ or resulting in injury should be recorded on an Accident/Assault Incident form, the teacher’s class diary or the Playgrounds Incident Book. We use an electronic system for recording safeguarding and behaviour incidents (CPOMS), so do we have to keep records of restraint in a numbered bound book? Where behaviour is considered a low-level issue the use of sanctions can be applied. Pupils will always be listened to as we seek to understand the reason for any behaviour and through discussion, we will apply a sanction if appropriate. We aim for children to learn through this process to enable them to make better choices in the future. Any measures taken to respond to unacceptable behaviour are appropriate to the age, understanding and individual needs of the child, for example taking into account that unacceptable or challenging behaviour may be the result of illness, bullying, certain disabilities such as autism, or communication difficulties.