3.4 Promote children and young people's positive behaviour

TDA 3.4: Promote children and young people’s positive behaviour.
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St Teresa’s Primary Catholic School above policies and procedures are crucial in supporting all pupils that attend our school.
Feel safe; St Teresa’s School guarantees that all pupils attending the school feel secure and protected in their school setting and that they hope to achieve good, positive, standards of behaviour. Each child will feel safe from bullying and discrimination. A child with a worry or problem is encouraged to talk it through with someone who they trust.
Make a Positive Contribution; St Teresa’s School ensures that the views of the children attending the school are reflected in the curriculum planning and teaching, for example my teacher has incorporated ‘pirates’ in the curriculum as a child came in with a toy pirate and all children responded positively. All teaching professionals at St Teresa’s encourage all children as and when they can, we are expected to support the children to develop positive behaviour and relationships by having the confidence to deal with everyday challenges. Children are commended on their contribution to the school by receiving a ‘fun sticker’ or ‘star of the week’ for infants. The child who receives ‘star of the week’ is congratulated further in assembly in front of all children and staff. Again another approach to enforcing positive behaviour.
Develop Social and Emotional Skills; St Teresa’s are aware of the necessity to encourage children’s social and emotional skills. They help to develop and teach as early as possible in order to give them the best chance of developing a healthy, emotional and social confidence later on in life, it is important that children learn social skills such as taking turns, learn to cooperate and to gain confidence in social situations. Through the Personal, Social and Health Education (PHSE) coaching, St Teresa’s school ensures that all children develop these personal abilities and skills that will motivate them to strive for higher personal achievement, socially and academically throughout their lives, PHSE also helps a child to understand how they are developing personally and socially and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up.
Understand expectations and limits; St Teresa’s pupil are all made aware of the expectation that St Teresa’s expects. The code of conduct id displayed and reinforced as and when is necessary with a child or a class full of children. The general school rules are…
• Apologise when it is necessary to do so and when it is appropriate.
• Accept the consequences of their own actions and behaviour.
• Recognise the opportunities to help others.
• To avoid over reacting and take on responsibility.
It is in a child’s best interest to demonstrate positive behaviour, as well as to know what is expected of them in order for them to reach their own personal goals and targets.

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The benefit to both staff and pupils all being made aware of St Teresa’s Policies and Procedures is to enforce a fair and consistent way of promoting positive behaviours with our children.
For loss of a better term ‘All singing from the same hymn sheet.’ Each and every teacher, teaching assistant will have varied ways of implementing discipline and promoting behaviours which is positive, a child will already be susceptible to who is the ‘soft’ parent and who is the ‘strict’ parent, it’s the same within schools as some teachers let some things pass and some do not. It’s in the teacher’s and pupils’ best interest that this is not the case in school. St Teresa’s has policies and procedures in place to avoid the misunderstanding between child and pupil.
I witnessed only yesterday that a teacher ran down the corridor in school as she was late for standing by the doors for morning entry, a number of young children, infants had already come through the door and all commented to Miss Z running in the corridor, the teacher made a joke of the act, by implementing that she was in fact not running but walking quickly. This is a minor example, however this potentially could lead to infant children copying Miss Z, and not running as the rules do not prohibit running through the corridor but allowing children to indeed walk fast. A number of consequences could occur. Child A could well be walking fast, another teacher sees this and advises child A to walk, not run, leading child A to answer back and inform the Miss M that in fact he/she was not running but walking quickly like Miss Z. Miss M becomes cross with child A as not only was child A running but now is answering back, child A is disciplined as he copied Miss Z. Child A now feels unfairly treated. Miss Z if made aware of the events that have unfolded will feel guilt and Miss M can feel frustration as was left with no other choice to discipline all from a teachers actions.
It’s essential that all within a school, pupils and staff follow the policies and procedures.

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