Rewards
At Longdendale our rewards policy encompasses the vision of creating a vibrant, positive learning culture of success and celebration. Students are motivated, feel valued and they achieve.
Positive behaviour choices are of critical importance in all schools. They encourage a calm and productive environment in which children can flourish. Our behaviour and rewards policy seeks to reward the good choices the students make and prevent disruptive behaviour from impacting on the learning of the rest of the class. We want all who learn here to leave understanding that their positive behaviour and attitudes will enhance their lives. We use Class Charts to record, monitor and report rewards and behaviour choices.
The responsibility for behaviour choices rests with the student. They are responsible for their actions and consequences will result from these. Rewards for positive behaviour and attitude choices and sanctions for poor behaviour and attitude choices. Students, school staff and parents/carers work in partnership to ensure that learning is not disrupted by poor behaviour.
Rewards and celebrating success is an important part of life within Longdendale High school with students’ success both within and outside the classroom rewarded. Rewarding students makes them feel valued, builds confidence and pride and motivates them to achieve. In addition, rewarding good behaviour enables students to realise that desirable behaviour, self-discipline and responsibility to self and others is highly valued in our community.
Students’ achievement, effort and behaviour will be recognised and celebrated in the following ways:
- Praise and encouragement
- Achievement points
- Postcards home
- Certificates & badges
- Attendance Awards
- Celebration Assemblies
- Award Ceremonies
- Reward trips
We understand the importance of recognising, praising and rewarding our students in a way that is meaningful to them. We will ensure that, regardless of ability and age all students across the school will be able to benefit from the rewards process. We follow a positive behaviour policy and therefore students can earn achievement points based on our 3 core values of Respect, Resilience and Aspiration.
Students may also choose to spend their reward points by exchanging them for small prizes at the school reward shop. These include stationery items, books and vouchers.
Every September will be a fresh start (points will be reset at zero and students will work towards certificates and badges for that school year). There will be further recognition in Year 11 for those students who have accumulated badges, at least up to the gold threshold, in each of their five years at school.
Sanctions
In the event that a student makes poor choices in respect of their behaviour or attitude sanctions will be applied. The staff member will take into account the behaviour and context of the behaviour when applying sanctions. Whilst the formal sanction process listed below will usually follow the staff member’s use of measures to refocus and reengage the student, there will be times when serious behaviour requires earlier stages to be bypassed. The Form Tutor and Learning Leader are central to a child’s educational experience at Longdendale, they ensure close contact is maintained between home and school in respect of lower level behaviour incidents. Should a student accumulate a number of sanctions the school may decide to incorporate these into one or more higher level sanctions.
At the initial stages of lower level poor behaviour, the staff member will use strategies to refocus and redirect the student to make the right behaviour choices.
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C1 |
Receiving a C1 tells a student that their behaviour or attitude is unacceptable and that they have failed to make improvements despite the staff member’s interventions. This may be recorded on the board at the front of the classroom, it will not be recorded on the student’s behaviour register. |
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C2 |
Further poor choices will result in the student being issued with a C2. This may be recorded on the board and will be recorded on the student’s behaviour register via Class Charts. If 5 C2 warnings are accrued over the course of 1 academic week, a C3 30 minute after school detention will be issued. |
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C3 |
If the student does not demonstrate improvement in their behaviour this sanction will be applied - the C2 will be escalated to a C3. A 30 minute detention will be issued which will be served the same day which will be recorded on the student’s behaviour register. The classroom teacher will ask for the student to be removed from the lesson. If a student is removed from a lesson twice in a day the student will remain in the removal room for the remainder of that day and the following day. |
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C4 |
This sanction is reserved for more serious incidents or the persistent failure to meet the school’s core values and expectations. These incidents will likely result in a period of internal exclusion, a fixed term exclusion or a permanent exclusion. |
Students who make repeated poor choices will be placed on monitoring report. If their behaviour choices are not improved they will be placed onto an Individual Behaviour Plan or Pastoral Support Plan.
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Electronic devices are a distraction to learning and it is for this reason that they are not permitted to be used, seen or heard at any time during the school day. There is a gate-to-gate ban on the use of mobile phones and electronic devices such as headphones and smartwatches. Devices brought into school must be switched off and left in students bags at all times during the school day. If a mobile phone, headphone or smartwatch is seen or heard at any point during the school day, the student will be asked to hand their device over to a member of staff. Family members such as parents can collect the device from the office that day. If a student refuses to hand over their device, a senior member of staff will be called upon to collect the device. The student will be placed into internal exclusion at the next available opportunity and the phone returned to the student at the end of the Friday SLT 45-minute detention.
The school may confiscate mobile technology or other items if it forms part of a safeguarding concern. It may not be appropriate to return the item(s) until a discussion with the police has taken place.
