Behaviour
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Behaviour management strategies
- Behaviour audit: how-to and templates Identify the strengths, weaknesses and disparities in your approach to behaviour, and use this insight to create an action plan. Download our templates to help you gather evidence and analyse data, including staff and pupil surveys and a monitoring form.
- Behaviour for learning: guidance and examples Find out how you can support your children to develop behaviours for learning. See examples of how other schools do it.
- Behaviour management: pupils with emotional and learning needs From sensory zones to nurture groups, learn how to manage challenging behaviour from pupils with SEN. Get guidance on communicating effectively with these pupils, adapting your classroom environment to cater for their needs, and see examples of what other schools are doing.
- Behaviour management: techniques and approaches See how you can support your teachers to brush up on their behaviour management skills and feel more confident – especially if they’re in their early career teacher (ECT) year or struggling with a particular class.
- Behaviour plans for pupils: template Download our behaviour plan template and find links to guidance to help you develop your behaviour plans.
- Behaviour policy: staff quizzes Download our quizzes to check whether your staff understand your school's approach to behaviour and can apply your policy consistently.
- Behaviour sanctions: what you can and can't do Get to grips with the rules on sanctions, including guidance on detentions, isolation and confiscating prohibited items.
- Effective behaviour management: guidance summary Learn how to develop a positive behaviour culture in your school, with a breakdown of the DfE's Behaviour in Schools guidance. Find out how to foster a whole-school approach through a behaviour curriculum and standards, and how to support pupils to meet those standards.
- How to embed inclusivity in your behaviour policy Focus on inclusivity when updating your behaviour policy, by introducing these strategies to reduce bias and comply with equality law.
- Identifying the causes of challenging behaviour Tackle challenging behaviour by identifying a pupil's underlying needs. Find information on what to consider, the different types of assessment you can use, and using the outcomes of these assessments to develop a behaviour support plan.
- Pastoral support plans: guidance, templates and examples Find out how to develop a pastoral support plan (PSP) to give a pupil the additional support they need, and get templates and examples to help you write your own.
- Removing pupils from the classroom: requirements and guidance The DfE has updated its guidance on removing pupils from the classroom. Get to grips with your responsibilities, the processes you need to follow, and other things you'll need to consider.
- Sexism and sexual harassment: how to update your behaviour policy Weave these behaviour management strategies into your policy to let your school community know how you’ll tackle sexism and sexual harassment between pupils. Use our example scenarios to help you review your policy before consulting on it.
- The behaviour curriculum Get to grips with the new requirement to have a behaviour curriculum. You're likely to be doing much of this already, but understand what to consider when establishing a behaviour curriculum in line with the DfE's expectations.
- Using restorative practice to manage behaviour Understand what restorative approaches to behaviour are, the potential benefits of using them and how to make the most effective use of them in your school.
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Bullying
- Bullying incidents: reporting and recording Understand your reporting and recording responsibilities when it comes to bullying, and see examples of forms to record incidents.
- Recording and reporting racist incidents Find out when to report racist incidents and bullying to your LA or the police, and how recorded incidents can inform your school's anti-racism action plan. Adapt your behaviour policy to include your approach to racism and see example policies from other schools.
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Dealing with behaviour challenges
- Educational visits: refusing to take pupils It's up to you to decide whether to prevent a pupil from going on a trip, but you must avoid discrimination. Here's what to consider if you have pupils with challenging behaviour, and for those with SEND and/or medical conditions.
- How to record physical interventions It's good practice to log the use of reasonable force against pupils. Find guidance on how to do this, and see examples of template record sheets from schools and a local authority.
- How to use reasonable force Make sure you understand when and how staff can make physical interventions with pupils. Read through our summary of the official guidance, including what it has to say on staff training and reporting incidents.
- Searching pupils and confiscation The DfE's latest guidance on searching pupils and confiscation places a bigger emphasis on safeguarding. Understand the rules on when you can search pupils and what process you should follow.
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Exclusions
- Excluding a pupil: procedures and guidance Be clear on the procedures for excluding a pupil, when you can lawfully do so, and who you must inform.
- Improving behaviour: 'managed moves' and directing pupils off site You can temporarily direct pupils with challenging behaviour off site. Alternatively, you can carry out a 'managed move' if the situation calls for a permanent change. Find out more about what both options involve and how you're expected to manage them.
- Independent review panel hearings: procedures Parents/carers have the right to request a review of your governing board's decision not to reinstate a pupil after exclusion. This is done by an independent review panel (IRP), convened by the local authority (LA) or academy trust. Get an overview of how the hearing will run and what the outcomes might be.
- Off-rolling: how to identify and prevent it Ofsted will look for evidence of 'off-rolling'. Find out what it is, how you can guard against it and what to do if you think it has happened.
- Reintegrating a pupil after a suspension: guidance Read about creating an integration strategy to help support pupils on a fresh start following suspension. Find out what to cover in a reintegration meeting, and download our template strategy plan to get your staff, pupils and parents/carers on the same page.
- Suspending a pupil: procedures and guidance Be clear on the procedures for suspending a pupil, when you can lawfully do so, and who you must inform.
- Suspending or excluding a pupil with SEND: requirements and guidance Understand the steps you need to take before suspending or excluding a pupil with SEND, especially if they have an education, health and care (EHC) plan, and learn about how your statutory duties may affect your decision.
- Suspension or permanent exclusion hearings: procedures Certain exclusions require a panel to consider the headteacher's decision. Get an overview of the requirements and what role you play in the process.
- Suspensions and exclusions guidance: changes from September 2023 Updated guidance on suspensions and exclusions will come into effect on 1 September 2023, for new cases arising from that point onwards. Here we help you sort through what's changed and what hasn't so you can start the new year with confidence.
- Suspensions and exclusions: notifying parents, governors and others Following a permanent exclusion or suspension (fixed-term exclusion), understand who you need to tell and when. Download our template letters to get the necessary information to parents and carers ASAP.
