Purpose:
The purpose of our behaviour policy is to illustrate that we have adopted a behaviour focussed curriculum. Our behaviour curriculum provides all stakeholders of Tannery Drift First School with an appropriate code of conduct, which encourages our school to internalise a set of key values. In response, our children become happy, successful and able to serve our community positively.

At Tannery Drift First School we:
• Aim to create a warm and welcoming environment that cultivates a respect for the rights and needs of children and adults, irrespective of culture, race or gender.
• Promote equality of treatment and equal access to educational opportunity within the school community.
• Create a calm, purposeful and happy atmosphere within the school which enables all children to access the curriculum.
• Foster positive caring attitudes towards everyone in the community by promoting respect, courtesy, tolerance, teamwork, trust and honesty.
• Acknowledge and value achievements at all levels in an environment that encourages pride in effort, as well as achievement.
• Encourage increasing independence and self-discipline so that each child learns to accept responsibility for their own behaviour.
• Apply a consistent approach to behaviour throughout the school, in partnership with parents and carers.
• Make boundaries of acceptable behaviour clear and ensure that appropriate behaviour is encouraged and recognised.
• We aim to maintain high aspirations and expectations of our children, in the anticipation of fostering independent, reflective and lifelong learners.

There are three basic principles upon which our behaviour policy is based:
• When a child demonstrates unacceptable behaviour, it is the behaviour which is unacceptable not the child.
• It is our duty to promote and encourage positive behaviour.
• We seek to understand behaviour and identify what a child is communicating to us in their actions.

Our school Golden Rules:
• We are gentle and kind to everyone in our school.
• We always try our best.
• We always listen carefully and politely to everyone.
• We always look after our property, other children’s property and property belonging to adults and the school.
• We try hard to be honest at all times.

This statement and our Behaviour Policy will be reviewed on a two yearly basis, unless changes at national or local level necessitate an exceptional review.

The Department for Education requires governing bodies of maintained schools to publish a statement of behaviour principles for their school. The Governing Body therefore has a duty to produce, and review, a written statement of general principles to
guide the Headteacher in determining measures to promote good behaviour and discipline amongst pupils. The document ‘Behaviour and Discipline in Schools – Guidance for Governing Bodies’ (DFE - July 2013) has been used as a reference in producing this Statement of Behaviour Principles.