Behaviour at Djanogly Strelley Academy

At Djanogly Strelley Academy we are always striving to ensure that all the pupils feel secure and confident within the boundaries set. All those who behave in a responsible and thoughtful way will experience success and will help create a happy environment through positive relationships with both other children and adults.

All the staff at this school will contribute towards sustaining a happy environment as this will lead to positive attitudes towards learning and working effectively with others. We also expect volunteers to share the same ethos.

We operate on positive approaches and encourage the re-enforcement of acceptable behaviour.

Our systems of positive behaviour management and our school rules reflect our belief that children need praise and encouragement to succeed. We reward good behaviour and deal consistently with bad behaviour. It is important to emphasise - we make it clear that it is the inappropriate behaviour we don’t like, not the child.

The School Behaviours we encourage at DSA 

The DSA Way

Be Ready

Be Respectful

Be Safe

Rewards at DSA

All staff use non – verbal rewards such as smiles and thumbs up FREQUENTLY. Verbal praise will be used EXTENSIVELY. 

Children receive  Dojo points that they can collect daily and exchange for prizes. They will receive points for; high quality work, courtesy, care, consideration, hard work and effort as well as demonstrating our behaviours of READY, RESPECTFUL, SAFE and key values of AMBITION, KINDNESS and TEAMWORK.

During our weekly Star Assembly each class teaching team will nominate a ‘Star of the Week’ whose positive contribution to their class will be recognised.  Each class will also nominate a child to win an ‘Integrity Award’, presented to children identified by their classmates as going that ‘extra mile’ and being a good role model during the preceding week.  Staff will also seek to publicise and praise specific achievements that children have made in out of school activities.

Each term teachers also identify individuals who have demonstrated good behaviour for learning and exhibited key values. Members of SLT will send Positive Postcards home to families to highlight this positive behaviour.

Consequences at DSA 

We expect children to be READY and in the learning zone. Staff will always use non-verbal reprimands first such as a look, a shake of the head, raised eyebrows, walking over to the child briefly to intervene early and de-escalate potentially disruptive behaviour.

If these fail, the following sanctions apply;

2. Non-accusatory verbal warning (framing the sentence positively with what they should be doing)

3. Refocus by moving name to yellow area  on classroom ClassDojo display. All children can have their name moved back up when they demonstrate positive responses and behaviour) If this has needed to happen then any uncompleted work and time wasted is to be made up at break time.

4. If the child continues with this behaviour then they should be re-directed to the partner class for time out. Work should be completed in the partner class and if not it is to be completed at break time.

5. Continued disruption will result in SLT support which could lead to further consequences.

6. If a child continues to make poor choices then they may need a yellow repair card and will report to their teacher at the end of each lesson for a defined period to discuss positive and negative behaviours. This will be issued after discussion with the appropriate phase leader or member of SLT.

7. Should extreme or persistent behaviour take place then a child will have a red repair card and will report to a member of SLT at throughout the day for a defined period to discuss positive and negative behaviours.

8. Fixed term suspension and exclusion will be used as a last resort in the most serious of cases. 

After any significant behaviour incident a full review will take place to ensure that appropriate support is put in place if needed.