Behaviour Policy

• I believe that children flourish in a calm atmosphere of care and respect. An ordered environment, in which children know what is expected of them, helps them to build positive patterns of behaviour.
  
  
• I take care to praise and endorse positive behaviour.

• Younger children will be distracted, not confronted, and older children will be encouraged to discuss issues of behaviour.

• In any case of misbehaviour it is made clear that it is the behaviour, not the child, which is unwelcome.
  Physical punishment is never used nor threatened.

• Techniques intended to single out and humiliate individuals are never used.

• Children will be given support to understand what is wrong, and will be helped to work towards a better pattern.

• Children will be removed from an activity if their behaviour is anti-social.

• Parents will always be informed of any persistent misbehaviour, and of the strategies being used to deal with it.