Our Behaviour Curriculum

What We Do and Why?

Our Restorative Approach - What is it?

Restorative practice is a set of principles and practice that encourages children to take responsibility for their behaviour by thinking through the causes and consequences.

It’s all about developing, maintaining and repairing relationships, building a community based around empathy and self-learning, where children take responsibility for their behaviour.

How Can You Help Your Child?

By using the same approach and visuals that we use!  These are described below if you want to read more.

For example, Max has hurt Sam in the playground. They sit down together with a teacher, who helps Max think through the above questions:

• What happened? ‘I tripped Sam up in the playground.’
• What were you thinking and feeling at the time? ‘I was angry because he laughed when I fell over playing football.’
• What have you thought about it since? ‘I’m still cross that he laughed but I feel bad that he got hurt.’
• Who has been affected and in what way? ‘Sam grazed his knees and it made him cry. He had to stop playing football because it hurt too much.’
• How could things have been done differently? ‘I could have told Sam that I was angry that he laughed at me and asked him not to. I could have walked away and found someone else to play with.’
• What do you think needs to happen to make things right? ‘I need to say sorry to Sam and try not to lose my temper next time.’

Sam is also asked the same set of questions. This helps him identify his part in what happened, and communicate how Max’s actions affected him.