Unit 304 Promote Children and Young People’s Positive Behaviour

Explain the benefits of all staff consistently and fairly applying rules and boundaries for children and young people’s behaviour in accordance with the policies and procedures of the setting.

1.1 Describe the policies and procedures of the setting relevant to promoting children and young people’s positive behaviour.

| Section 175 of the Education Act 2002 requires local education authorities and governing bodies of maintained schools and FE colleges to make arrangements to ensure that their functions are carried out with a view to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.All children deserve the opportunity to achieve their full potential.  The five outcomes that are key to children’s and young people’s wellbeing are: * Stay safe * Be healthy * Enjoy and achieve * Make a positive contribution * Achieve economic wellbeing The school should give effect to their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of their pupils (students under the age of 18 years of age) under the Education Act 2002 and , where appropriate, under the Children Act 1989 by: * Creating and maintaining a safe learning environment for children and young people. * Identifying where there are child welfare concerns and taking action to address them in partnership with other

Schools are required to have policies and procedures as they safe guard the staff and pupils and

Produce information about promoting positive behaviour for parents, children and young people within the school setting, the information must show that you can:

| In this assignment I will be looking to demonstrate my knowledge of three different assessment criteria. Firstly I will be looking to explain the benefits of all staff consistently and fairly applying boundaries and rules for children and young people’s behaviour. I will then look to explain how the application of boundaries and rules for behaviour complies with the policies and procedures of the setting. I will then move onto to explaining the benefits of actively promoting positive aspects of behaviour as well as

Positive behaviour management is about using positive rather than negative approaches to encourage children and young people to behave appropriately. Promoting positive behaviour

My setting encourages children and young people’s positive behaviour by developing positive relationships, listening to children and valuing their opinions, providing a stimulating and challenging environment, planning experiences well, giving children choices, meeting individual needs, being inclusive, acting as role models, setting clear boundaries, reinforcing positive behaviour, encouraging children to resolve conflict, looking for reasons for inappropriate behaviour, following behaviour policy and following plans for individual behaviour.

At grove primary school we have a safeguarding policy which is in place to make sure that everyone attending the school including children, young people and adults are made to feel safe, secure and protected at all times showing high standards of behaviour and respect working together to safeguard the wellbeing of the children and young people to high expectations, when the policy is reviewed or updated all staff should get up to date with the policies and procedures so they can understand, acknowledge and review any changes that are made. We make sure that every child and young person feels safe and happy so they don’t need to worry about any kind of discrimination or bullying whilst at school and that if anything did occur they

Responsible behavior policies, such as bullying and cyber safety are incorporated into the school’s ‘Responsible Behaviour Plan’ (see Section 2.7).

Behaviour stems from children actions and decisions, adults use discipline to help children make appropriate decisions about their behaviour (Hayes, 2009). This assignment aims to focus on the role of the teacher in managing behaviour with reference too, teacher-pupil relationships and the way they impact both positively and negatively on individual children, learning through reinforcement/rewards and how they influence children to behave in a particular way, rules and structure in order for children to be more comfortable in their school environment. The teacher is the key person for managing behaviour, the steer report (2005, page 22) cited in (Adams, 2010) states that consistent experience of good teaching promotes good behaviour. However schools also need to have positive strategies for managing pupil behaviour that helps pupils understand their schools expectations.

Effective whole school rules and strategies are developed and practiced by all staff. These are universal strategies, referred to in tier one of the three-tier model of School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS). (Zirpoli, 2012, p. 329). The policy, in line with SWPBS states that ‘it is important that rather than follow a reactive approach to behaviour [the staff will] be proactive in dealing with inappropriate classroom and playground behaviours.’ (School Policy, 2012, p. 8). To ensure that this criterion is met, the School has incorporated desirable behaviours into their own hierarchy of social development. To create a common language and way of discussing

The first role of a teacher is to set limits and rules for students to follow in order to insure that a safe and orderly learning environment is established. To do so, some basic and observable rules must be set in place which clearly outline what behaviors you expect of your students at all times throughout the day or class. Nevertheless, children should be offered a choice to behave appropriately and be made fully aware of the consequences of their actions. The establishment of a tenable behavior management plan can greatly enhance the chances that students will be provided with an environment for intellectual, social, and emotional

Grove Primary school has a behaviour policy, this is a legal requirement for all schools to have one. All staff should be aware of this policy and obey by it and the rules and procedures within this policy so they know how to deal with behaviours effectively and what is expected of everyone within the setting. We also have a anti bullying policy, this is so children and young people know what’s expected of them and what kind of bullying behaviour will not be excepted by them or anyone else in the school setting, it also has the procedures for the staff in the setting to follow if any bullying does occur so it can be dealt with accordingly and in a timely manner. This gives the children, young people and parents/carers to be able to feel safe that they will be looked after within the setting and

It is essential that positive behaviour is always promoted, praised and used as children notice when adults behaviour is out of character, if positive and professional behaviour is continually used it is more likely that the pupils will also behave in that way.