Although the emphasis at The Deens Academy is on positive behaviour management and we recognize that encouragement and praise have the greatest impact on behaviour, it is also important to have a range of sanctions to apply, when the need arises. This is vital if we are to educate our students as far as appropriate behaviour is concerned. These sanctions will be applied consistently and fairly to have the impact that we would hope.
The following Behaviour Policy describes in more detail what sanctions will be applied at classroom level. All staff will be responsible for ensuring that these sanctions are consistently applied.
What Sanctions may be applied?
A variety of sanctions exist at The Deens Academy and these include:
Students will make mistakes and show behaviour that, from time to time, do not facilitate good learning and violate the school ethos and / or rules. We want all sanctions to be constructive. i.e. they are designed to seek positive outcome / change of attitude or behaviour. Dialogue with students / parents will always form an important part of this process.
As and when incidents arise and sanctions are applied, an entry will be made by the concerned teacher into the Behaviour Record in the Almanac and our ‘Disciplinary Action Book’, retained with the Principal, clearly showing the actions made. This will enable us to monitor the progress of every student carefully, thus ensuring the application of appropriate levels of sanction and support.
Sanctions Policy
Sanctions can be applied by any School staff, with the approval of the Principal, whenever there is a violation of the Discipline Policy. This may take the form of:
Students with extreme behaviour problems will be dealt with directly by the Principal.