Discipline initiatives

Here are some of the ways schools have dealt with diciplinary issues in order to increase behaviour standards.

• Admin support assistants gain responsibility for detention

  This case study describes how Admin Support Assistants can take on administrative responsibilities, like in aspects of a detention system, in order to reduce teacher workload.

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• Pupil profile systems to manage discipline and monitor attendance

  St Benedict School identified a need to streamline its records of non-academic achievements and disciplinary events, so invested in new ICT systems to implement a new approach.

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• Combining academic and pastoral records

  Tutors at West Park School are now able to look for correlations in student patterns of indiscipline and non-attendance as a result of changes to their roles and record-keeping.

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• BFL – boosting staff and pupil morale and increasing academic attainment

  The development of a pioneering discipline system known as ‘Behaviour for Learning’ (BFL) has boosted staff and pupil morale and helped generate a startling rise in academic attainment at Ninestiles School in Birmingham. The school is now seen as a model of how to deal with the effects on learning of ‘low level behaviour’ problems.

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• School works with statutory agencies to help pupils

  By working in partnership with other voluntary and statutory agencies (including education social workers, benefit agencies and family support agencies) and schools young people and their families are being helped to manage their problems better.

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• Tackling smoking in school

  Getting a member of staff to train in smoking cessation has led to a highly successful confidential programme of help and advice for pupils and staff at Parrenthorn High School.

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