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The school recognises both the need to reward achievement and sanction inappropriate behaviour. The underlying aim of all the school's policies in this area is the creation of a positive learning environment.
In a positive learning environment students feel that they are genuinely praised and rewarded for their efforts and achievements, be they academic, sporting, social or otherwise.
Equally in a positive learning environment students are not afraid to show off their talents, risk getting things wrong or try new concepts and ideas.
Sanctions are necessary to provide a safe learning environment and to prevent any student from disrupting the education or learing opportunities of other students.
The school uses a sanction hierarchy, detailed elsewhere on this site, of increasing severity and seriousness. The basic school rules, also available on this site, outline the starting point on that hierarchy for the most common examples of misbehaviour. At any level, if sanctions are deemed to be failing, then the student in question will be moved up the hierarchy.
For example: a student who disrupts a lesson would, in the first instance, recieve a Level 1 sanction from the class teacher (such as a breaktime detention and a warning). If the student failed to attend the breaktime detention or continued to disrupt the teacher's lesson then they would be placed in School Detention (Level 2).
Last modified 2005-02-15 14:12
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