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Jeremy Rowe Sir John Leman High School
Bett 2014
Friday, 24 January 2014
• 1475 students: 0 FTEs
• £100k pa saved
• Rise in staff attendance, student attendance and Year Seven applications
• Exam results
“STOP! Or I’ll shout stop again!”
Robin Williams
SIX KEY BELIEFS
Belief one
All students do all detentions
•Detentions are to repair and rebuild
•Abolition of headteacher detentions
• Students are internally excluded if they do not do them but … they cannot return until they have done the original detention
which brings us to …
Belief two
NEVER lose sight of the primary focus
• Subject departments are responsible for behaviour in their lessons
• The hat, phone, homework … must be resolved before the student can go back to normal lessons
• Study focus
Belief three
Discipline should be SMART,
loving and relentless
What does that look like?
• Silent fire drill
• Senior staff visiting students’ homes
• No need to raise voices
• Non-verbal communication
• All staff invited to do patrol
• Strategic use of SIMS
• Guarantees to parents, children and staff
Belief four
Fixed-term exclusions weren’t working
Inclusion Room
• Formal letters
• Readmittance interviews/do not always readmit
• “Not on the students’ records”
•Huge parental support
• (Students might not actually like it …)
Belief five
Students will behave as well or as badly as we accept
Belief six
Behaviour & learning are two sides of the same coin
(Belief Seven!)
• These beliefs will only transform a school when used strategically – and often patiently!
• It will be impossible without three critical bits of equipment:
Behaviour timeline
Behaviour policy
• If you stop rowing, don’t be surprised if everyone else in the boat stops rowing too.
• The 99% are the ones who need to define your school, but they need platforms to do it from. They are waiting for the chance.
BELIEF
Sorting Out Behaviour
A head teacher’s guide
Jrowe@sjlhs.suffolk.sch.uk
Crown House Publishing
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