KISC Behaviour Management Policy

Rationale:

The policy is designed to provide a framework within which children are able to learn in a safe and caring learning environment.

Objectives

• To encourage positive behaviour and to protect the rights of each child to learn in a safe and caring learning environment.
• To encourage the Christian values of love, care and respect
• To help students realize and accept their responsibility to ensure KISC is a safe and caring learning environment.
• To ensure a consistent approach across the school

Aims:

• To ensure the emotional and physical safety of all members of the community
• To support a healthy and purposeful learning environment
• To have clear expectations
• To be manageable and practical
• To be positive with a focus on praise and affirmation

How do we encourage positive behaviour?

• Have high expectations which are shared with the parents, staff and children

• Each classroom should have its own rules, written positively, so that students’ rights are protected, and responsibility is encouraged

• Praise both verbally and in written or creative forms

• Staff model appropriate and caring behaviour

• Positive staff relationships

• Open dialogue and a willingness to listen to parents, staff and children

• Awards for character, sports, music, citizenship, drama, art, improvement and academic achievement

• Through teaching in assemblies and class times

• Encouraging students to be responsible for their own behaviour

How do we manage problems?

KISC intervenes when certain behaviours indicate an issue needs to be addressed such as

• behaviour that shows disrespect for other people or school property;

• or a student's behaviour/attitude is such that they are not talking full adventage of being at KISC and not upholding our values of love, care and respect

The following steps may be followed by the teacher, but should be used with discretion and prayer. They should not be used legalistically.

1. Review- Ascertain whose responsibility the behaviour/problem is (eg. it may be parent's)

2. Remind - If the behaviour/problem is the child's responsibility, remind student of their responsiblity and refer to class rules.

3. Research - If the behaviour/problem persists, staff should use discretion as to an appropriate consequence and if considered that the behaviour/problem is becoming a problem, the teacher should try to discover why. It may be helpful to involve the parents informally (eg by phone, or casually in yard. Parents may want to know there is a problem at this stage. If a parent is involved, the Principal should be informed.

4. Interview - If the behaviour continues to persist, the parents should be called in for a formal interview with the teacher and Principal.

KISC reserves the right to ask that a family withdraw their child from the school.

Secondary

Objectives

• To promote positive behaviour

• To encourage the Christian values of KISC

• To ensure a consistent approach across the school by all members of staff

• To help students realize and accept the responsibility for the outcomes of their actions and recognize they have a responsibility not a right to be part of the KISC community

• To hold all members of the community accountable for the positive behaviour of all students

Aims

• To ensure the emotional and physical safety of all members of the community

• To have clear expectations

• To be manageable and practical

• To be positive with a focus on praise and affirmation

• To support a healthy and purposeful learning environmen t

How do we encourage positive behaviour?

• Have high expectations which are shared with the parents, staff and students

• A house system based on rewards for positive contributions

• Staff modeling appropriate and caring behaviour

• Positive staff relationships

• Open dialogue and a willingness to listen to parents, staff and students

• Praise both verbally and in written forms

• Awards for sports, music, citizenship, drama, improvement and academic achievement

• Provide students with a sense of responsibility through the student council and social representatives and team captains

• Through teaching in assemblies, homeroom and Personal and Social Education times

• Encouraging students to be responsible for their own behaviour

For safety and security the following guidelines must be followed:

Students must report to staff at the beginning of a lesson and a study period. Students must also follow the study guidelines and make best use of them.

 

Grade 10-12 students may leave the KISC premises at lunchtime if they have written permission from their parents at the beginning of the academic year. They must sign out at the gate and clearly state where they are going.

 

Where students have a ‘girlfriend’ or ‘boyfriend’ in KISC, they should ensure that their physical expression of affection is “appropriate” i.e. kept to an absolute minimum, making no-one feel excluded by their actions.

For minor offenses such as general rule breaking e.g. forgetting homework or materials needed for the lesson, disrupting classes, chewing gum, clothing violation, minor violation of ICT policy, lateness, abuse of KISC property etc, then:

• Students will be reminded what is appropriate;

• If students persist, then they will be taken aside after a lesson and warned that a detention or other suitable consequence will be forth coming;

• If the behaviour persists again a break or lunch time consequence will be given;

• If the behaviour persists, then a Friday after school detention will be given and parents will be informed of the reason for the detention; staff will set appropriate tasks for the students to do and discuss with them how to avoid making the same mistake again.

For major offenses

1. If we find out that any student is involved in any ‘illegal’ activity in or out of KISC, such as being in possession of marijuana, then:

• We shall have no hesitation in expelling that student from KISC permanently.

2. If we have any evidence to suggest that a student is involved in smoking or drinking alcohol on the KISC site or near the KISC site then:

• Students will be suspended and parents will be informed.

3. Actions such as bullying, stealing, fighting, physical or verbal aggression, serious abuse of the ICT Policy, inappropriate behaviour on the buses or other external events then:

• Students may be suspended for a first time offense and may be subsequently expelled if the poor behaviour continues. Direct communication with the parents is needed in this case before the suspension takes place.

4. When students are consistently disrespectful to other students or staff either verbally or non-verbally, e.g. excessive rolling of eyes, inappropriate avoidance of eye contact, smirking, angry glare, disruptive or annoying noises, arrogant tone of voice, insulting speech, slander, showing contempt then;

1. Students will be taken aside after the lesson or incident and explained what action they were doing which was unacceptable behaviour. They will be asked not to do this again.

2. If the behaviour persists, then teachers will talk to the student again in private and the homeroom teacher informed

3. If it continues, teachers are to ask in the Thursday briefing or staff meeting if anyone else had sensed this problem. If so, then a mentor teacher needs to come alongside the student to discover why they are behaving this way and offer help, advice to overcome the problem. Teachers will be asked to complete the ‘Monitoring Card’ with targets set for behaviour. This is to try and determine the cause and frequency of the disruptive behaviour. Teachers will also to praise when they see improvement and may offer rewards.

4. If the problem persists or an understanding of the possible cause cannot be determined, then the Principal needs to be informed and the parents called in for a discussion with the mentor and Principal present.

5. A suitable course of action will be discussed with the parents and explained to all student and staff to follow. This will include rewards for improved behaviour and consequences if the disruptive behaviour persists. A time limit for improvement to take place will be given.

6. The student and support team will be prayed for in the Monday morning prayer meeting each week.

7. If the behaviour persists, then the Principal and homeroom teacher are to meet with the student to remind them what was agreed and that action must follow. Parents will be informed. The mentor support will continue.

8. If the behaviour persists, then the students will be suspended for a day and an independent “Trust Group” may be contacted for additional support.

9. If the disruptive behaviour continues, then a further discussion with the parents will be held and the student put on a written contract. If the parents are not supportive at this stage then KISC will recommend that they find another school for their child. The parents may appeal to the Governing Board.

10. If the contract is broken by the student, they will be suspended for two days.

11. If the student breaks the contract again, then the student will be expelled.

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