Behaviour
Behaviour
Our Relational Behaviour Approach
At Stapleford Community Primary School, we believe that positive relationships form the foundation for a safe, happy, and successful learning environment. Our relational approach to behaviour is built on the principles of kindness, respect, and understanding, with a strong emphasis on unconditional positive regard for every child.
We aim to support children in taking increasing responsibility for their learning and behaviour, helping them to make positive choices and develop the social and emotional skills they need for life.
Key features of our approach include:
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Value Relationships: We prioritise connection, empathy, and understanding. Staff listen, talk, and work with children, helping them feel heard and supported.
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Consistency: Clear expectations and routines are communicated, ensuring a calm, predictable environment where all children can thrive.
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Restorative Practice: We believe that behaviour is a form of communication. When things go wrong, we guide children through a process of reflection, repair, and restoration—helping them learn from their experiences and make amends.
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Proactive Support: We use a variety of strategies—such as positive phrasing, reminders, and differentiated support—to help children succeed.
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Positive Reinforcement: We celebrate kindness, effort, and achievement through praise, recognition, and rewards, fostering a culture where children feel valued and motivated.
Our behaviour expectations are simple and clear. We follow three Golden Rules:
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Be respectful, truthful, and hard-working.
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Keep hands and feet to ourselves.
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Look after people and property.
Our relational approach helps ensure every child feels safe, included, and empowered to learn and grow.
Please see our Behaviour Policy below.
Jayne Hore, Head Teacher is the school behaviour lead
Anti-Bullying
At Stapleford, children have the right to be safe, enjoy and achieve and make a positive contribution to school life. Stapleford maintains a caring approach to all members of our school community and any form of bullying, physical, verbal, racial, homophobic, transphobic, sexist or any other type will not be tolerated.
Anti-Bullying Week – 11th-15th November 2024
At school we marked this important week with a range of different activities, including odd socks day and several workshops. The theme of this anti-bullying week was “Choose Respect”.
Anti-Bullying Ambassadors
On Tuesday 29th March, 20 pupils took part in an anti-bullying training session run by The Diana Award. The children in Year 3 and above, worked together and acquired vital skills to enable them to change the attitudes and behaviours of bullying in their school by building their expertise and confidence to address different situations, both off and online. The programme has a strong peer-to-peer focus, with trainers giving young people the skills and confidence to become Anti-Bullying Ambassadors to tackle bullying in their schools long after the training has finished. The Diana Award’s anti-bullying work is recognised as world-class thanks to this sustainable approach. The training looked at bullying in different situations including face-to-face and online. At the end of the session, pupils made an action plan of how to approach bullying issues in school.
Commenting on the training Alice said, “I learnt what to do if someone is left out, how to include them and make them happy. It is great that anti-bullying ambassadors will be able to set an example to everyone else.”
Please see the Anti-Bullying Policy and information leaflets below.