Behaviour Policy
Behaviour at Oakfield
We share the responsibility for the care and discipline of our pupils with their parents. A constant, quiet encouragement to order and good manners is maintained in the school. Rules are kept to a minimum and are all expressed in positive terms (never ‘don’t’, but always ‘do’).
Our long-term aim is to encourage sensible independence and self-discipline. There is a clear behaviour code with appropriate rewards and sanctions, which operates consistently across the school. Pupils are expected to be smart in appearance, punctual, reliable, courteous in manner and speech, and understanding of others.
Oakfield children are discouraged from fighting at all times. Disagreements which cannot be resolved by the children themselves are referred to the teacher or Teaching Assistants on duty at break, or to a Lunchtime Supervisor at lunchtime. Regular meetings are held between the Headteacher and the Lunchtime Supervisors to discuss the quality of play in the playground during lunchtimes, and strategies for helping individual children, if necessary, are agreed.
Children are taught from the outset that good behaviour is a matter of making appropriate choices in response to different circumstances. We appreciate that for some children whose boundaries at home differ from those at school, it can initially be challenging to adjust to our high expectations of behaviour, and the Headteacher works with parents individually to support in these cases.
Classes which have achieved particularly high standards of behaviour, or a full week of attendance and punctuality for every child, will be given a treat which may be going to Imperial Park, across the road from the school, for an additional playtime on a Friday afternoon. In addition, each class operates its own special in-class reward scheme for good behaviour decided between the teacher and the children at the start of the year.