The school has a flexible hierarchy of responses to bad behaviour. Exclusion from the school is the most serious response in the hierarchy. The school will endeavour to act in a way that is fair, proportionate and with a view to the best interests of the student concerned, other students, members of staff and the school. With this in mind exclusions will only be used where the Head teacher deems it to be a lawful, rational, reasonable, fair and proportionate sanction. For further details on sanctions please refer to Appendix Two – Exclusions Policy Behaviour Policy Sanctions - Examples SANCTION INCIDENT LEADING TO SANCTION DETAILS OF SANCTION During School Detentions Short Detention Minor incidents and minor or one-off non with school expectations given by Class Teacher or Form Tutor. Maximum of 10 minutes at break or 10 - 30 minutes at lunchtime. (No parental notice given) Lunch Isolation Misbehaviour at break or lunch time Inappropriate behaviour as directed by Head of Failure to follow school rules regarding uniform and appearance Isolation Room for lunchtime period. Lunch will be eaten in the Isolation Room. (No parental notice given) School Detentions – pupils can be detained for a short period after school to allow conversations to take place between staff and pupils. This will normally be no longer than 10 minutes. Although it is legal to keep pupils behind after lessons for longer, we will aim to give 24 hours’ written notice or telephone notice of longer detentions. Faculty or Head of House Detention Failure to attend Class/Form Tutor detention. Persistent non-compliance with faculty expectations (e.g. strike 2 homework, poor attitude to learning, disruptive behaviour in lessons etc.) Persistent non-compliance with school expectations (e.g. uniform etc.) One hour detention unless otherwise notified by Head of Faculty or Head of House. (Parental notice given either by letter/phone or in pupil’s homework planner) Senior Callout One-off serious incidents or continued repeated disruption to learning during ONE teaching period One hour detention. (Parental contact by phone on day of Callout, otherwise notice given by letter) Punctuality Detention More than 10 minutes late to either form or class time over a period of a week. Length of detention is 20 minutes PLUS number of minutes late within that one week period. (Pupils informed by Form Tutor 48 hours before detention day and on every register one day before detention date.) Whole School Behaviour N1 – more than 6 negatives over the period of a week One hour detention with FT One hour detention with HoH
N2 – more than 20 negatives over the period of a half term N3 – more than 30 negatives over the period of a half term N4 – more than 50 negatives over the period of a half term One hour detention with SLT and parent meeting Benedict Room (For all above detailed detentions parents are informed by letter) Strike 3 Homework Detention Failure to complete homework to an acceptable standard on three separate occasions in ONE faculty area over the period of half a term One hour detention (Pupils informed by Form and on every register one day before detention date.) Benedict Room Serious or persistent disruption to lessons, defiance or persistent poor behaviour. Incidence of serious bullying, assault or vandalism in or out of school. Half or full day depending on severity of incident. Occasionally more than 1 day if deemed necessary. (Parents informed by Exclusions Term Exclusion (1-44 days) The consequence of an incident that is so serious that the pupil needs to be separated from the rest of the school community for the safety and/or health of other pupils and staff. Persistent disruption to learning where all other sanctions have been tried and proved unsuccessful. Failure to comply with the expectations during internal exclusion. Pupils excluded from school 1-5 days, will stay at home & work will be set. 6 day + provision will be made for access to home elearning. (Parents notified by letter) Permanent Exclusion Will be considered for the following, or other critical incidents: Unacceptable behaviour has previously been reported and for which School sanctions and other interventions have not been successful in modifying the student’s behaviour. related incidents (including alcohol, legal highs) where a pupil has used in school and/or has knowingly attempted to sell, persuade, promote or encourage other pupils to use or accept classified drugs, whether or not for financial gain. from a member of staff or from the school. Action (including repeated online messages) which are against British values of tolerance and acceptance against any individual or group, including incitement to hate crimes. Persistent behaviour or actions that are homophobic, transphobic, biphobic or Arson or other similar violation of the safety of the school community. Actual or threatened physical violence towards a member of staff. Directed assault against another pupil of a sexual or other serious nature. Please see separate related policies for more detailed information. (Parents notified by letter/telephone)