Behaviour
At Filton Avenue Primary School, we are committed to creating a calm, purposeful and safe environment, where exemplary behaviour allows all children to learn and reach their full potential.
We have the responsibility to educate young people about appropriate behaviour, conduct and ways of interacting with one another. We encourage and support our children to develop the personal and social skills required for life. We believe that positive relationships are at the heart of this process. We also teach children about respect for themselves, others and their environment.
In order to maintain good order and appropriate behaviour, we recognise the importance of fair, consistent and clear guidelines around behaviours and their consequences that staff follow with a common approach, ensuring equal opportunity. We focus on teaching, modelling, highlighting and rewarding positive behaviour, but also use sanctions where necessary. We believe that students’ positive behaviour and participation needs to be acknowledged and rewarded frequently in response to positive choices; poor behaviour – especially that which interferes with others’ learning or that which endangers others, must also be sanctioned appropriately and children must be taught how to respond in more positive ways.
We are an inclusive school. We therefore recognise the need to take account of individual needs and circumstances when responding to behaviour, so that the best possible support can be put in place. We recognise the need to build self-esteem and ensure approaches to managing behaviour make individuals feel valued and supported, and that effective support programmes for pupils who are experiencing difficulties.
At Filton Avenue Primary School, bullying, harassment and discrimination are never acceptable and incidents are dealt with fairly, effectively and promptly.
To help our pupils succeed, we have clearly mapped out what our behavioural expectations are and we teach these expectations to the children. This is called our behaviour curriculum. As part of our behaviour curriculum, we teach pupils routines that will support them to behave well. These routines eventually become habits which support pupils in their learning and positively shape how they feel about themselves and how other people perceive them. This shared understanding ensures that all pupils know what behaviour is expected at Filton Avenue.
