Promoting Positive Behaviour  Policy

It is our aim to provide a happy, caring environment with challenging activities. We believe children need to be stimulated and encouraged to reach their full potential. For this to happen we must put simple and fair rules in place and apply them consistently. Under no circumstances do we use any form of punishment, instead we encourage children to respect themselves, each other, and property. We set realistic expectations of behaviour through encouraging and praising good behaviour.

In the case of a particular incident or persistent unacceptable behaviour we always discuss ways forward with parents/carers.

Rules are in place to ensure the safety of children and staff, but to also provide the best possible environment for learning to occur. By following these rules children will develop an understanding of standards expected while developing a respect for themselves, others and our school.

Positive behaviour is encouraged and rewarded in ways such as verbal praise, stickers, informing parents. Negative behaviours are addressed by staff in a calm, fair and consistent way, with all staff informed of these methods during the induction process.

As with all aspects of nursery, we require your support with this, as it will help support the children with their learning and help prevent any confusion around boundaries. Parents will be informed of expected behaviours and rules to be followed during open days, daily catch ups, parents meetings or updates on communication apps.

RULES IN THE CLASSROOM

• Walking feet
• Indoor Voice
• Help to keep our room tidy
• To share and care with others
• Use manners when communicating
• Treat others kindly
• Listening ears
• Kind hands

EXPECTATIONS OF BEHAVIOUR

• Greet staff with name on arrival
• Reply to greetings / communication efforts
• Please and thank you,, encourage ‘magic word’
• Listen when others are speaking and try not to interrupt
• Ask to borrow or have a turn
• To sit properly – helps to stop others getting hurt
• Walk quietly indoors, run carefully outdoors and say sorry if any accidental bumps
• Wait in queues
• Play with all and include everyone – be a kind friend
• Try not to speak with a full mouth
• Hands are for helping or being busy at work
• Keep hands to ourselves – esp around others food
• Tidy away rubbish
• No rude words

PROCDEURES

We encourage acceptable behaviour by:

• Introducing all new staff to this policy during their induction process.
• Discussing rules and boundaries with the children in a way in which they will understand.
• Displaying the rules within the room.
• Ensuring staff provide a positive role model adopting a positive approach to all situations.
• Ensuring all staff will encourage and endorse desirable behaviour.
• Ensuring all staff will apply rules consistently.
• Ensuring all staff will promote respect for each other.

We manage unacceptable behaviour by:

• Praising positive behaviour.
• Giving children the opportunity of resolving their own disputes with appropriate guidance and support.
• Calm intervention.
• Encouraging children to express/discuss their feelings.
• Reinforcing boundaries – quietly and calmly explained what will happen if the behaviour occurs again and why the behaviour is not favourable.
• Diverting child’s attention
• Using appropriate strategies eg as per guidelines by SEELB Capacity Building Project.
• Remove child from an activity to discuss behaviours
• Discuss with parents to create ways to work together to alleviate problems occurred, this may result in reduced hours if behaviours can be managed through reduced time.
• Incidents may be recorded for observation purposes – these can help identify triggers, causes, timings etc. Parents will be informed if this is happening.
• Some behaviours may be recorded as an incident, which requires the parent to sign an incident report form.

Procedures that we find unacceptable for managing behaviour are:

• physical punishment.
• sending or taking children out of the room – unless this is required to calm a child down and staff inform staff of ongoings. Doors must always remain open.
• using techniques that single out and humiliate children.
• shouting or raising of voice in an inappropriate way.
• physical restraint, eg holding, will not be used unless it is required to prevent injury to child or other children, adults or property. In cases where it is used the incident will be recorded and the parent/carer informed the same day.

Working together, we can set a high standard of behaviour that is second nature to all the children.