Sanctions

Students who do not meet expectations in lessons will be sent to department parking. This ensures that the learning of the class is not disrupted any further. The teacher will request that on call takes the student to the allocated parking room. The student will be sent with work to complete. Students sent to department parking will be issued with a whole school daily detention to be completed on that day. If the department parking occurs during period 5 then the detention will be sat the following day.

Staff will use our management information system to allocate concern points for behaviour that does not follow school expectations using the behaviour chart in appendix 4.

For some more minor behaviours students will be given a reminder of expectations before a sanction is issued. For more serious behaviours, the sanction will be issued without a reminder of expectations.

(you can read the allocation of sanctions and thresholds for behaviour interventions here)

Section 90 and 91 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 allows schools to set detentions outside of school hours. As a school we will follow the statutory guidance on detentions set out in Behaviour and discipline in schools - Advice for headteachers and school staff- DfE- January2016, sections 27-34.

We use detentions as a sanction to address behaviour incidents that do not require the serious incident process to be carried out, but requires a sanction that makes it clear to the student that their behaviour is not acceptable. For the vast majority of students, detentions are deterrence and they will go through school life having very few detentions or none at all.

We operate two types of detentions

Daily whole school detentions

• Given for C2 behaviours and C3 behaviours.

• The detention will be for 40 minutes after school on the day of the sanction if it is issued by period 4.

• All detentions issued after period 4 will be served on the next school day.

Saturday detentions

• These are used for C4 behaviours, where it is deemed that a more community service based sanction would be fitting for to the type of misconduct.

• Saturday detentions are served from 9.30am-11.00am.

• Students in Saturday detention may be asked to participate in community service activities for the school: eg tidying classrooms and clearing litter.

• Students must attend Saturday detentions in full school uniform.

Key information about detentions

• Legally schools are allowed to keep students for detention as long as they provide ‘reasonable notice’ and only keep students for a ‘reasonable amount of time’.

• We define ‘reasonable notice’ as by 2.00pm via email on the day of the detention.

• We define ‘a reasonable amount of time’ as a maximum of 40 minutes with notice given by 2.00 pm. on the day of the detention.

• The purpose of detentions is to ensure there is a swift response when students display C2 behaviours. All detentions will have a reflective and restorative element to them.

• Students will only be permitted to postpone/reschedule their detention in exceptional circumstances where the student has a medical appointment; the child has a disability, SEN, is a carer or would be put in danger by staying after school.

• If a student has a sporting activity/match/competition on a day they have detention, they will not be permitted to attend and they will have to complete their detention. The headteacher can make exemptions to this rule in exceptional cases.

• In cases of medical appointments, parents/carers should contact the pastoral administrator in advance of 3.20pm. In situations where students tell us that they cannot attend detention due to a medical appointment, a member of staff will attempt to verify this information by telephoning parents/carers. Only once this information has been verified will the student be allowed to leave the detention.

• Reasonable adjustments to our detention system will be made for students with disabilities or with an EHCP, if this is deemed to be appropriate by the SENCO.

• When ensuring that a detention outside school hours is reasonable, staff issuing the detention should consider the following points: whether the detention is likely to put the student at risk and/or whether the student has known caring responsibilities which mean that the detention is unreasonable. For students to whom this applies, the school will make arrangements for the detention to be sat at lunch time.

• During the detention students will receive a laminated card with reflective activities to complete.

• Students who receive more than one C2 detention in one school day will only serve one detention but must also serve a day in IER the following day.

Teachers may ask students to stay behind at break or lunch to complete work or discuss their learning or behaviour. This does not count as a detention and the teacher must ensure that at break time the student is not kept back for more than 5 minutes and at lunchtime for no more than 15 minutes. If a teacher wishes to see a student during lunch or break then they should write a note in the student’s planner.

On - call is the process by which a member of the pastoral team or the senior leadership team are called to a lesson to support with behaviour. On-call is used as a supportive last resort for teaching staff when students are not following the teacher’s instructions. Teachers request on-call using the alert button on Bromcom.

All behaviours C4 - C11 behaviours will be investigated through the serious incident process. This will ensure that all evidence is considered and an appropriate sanction is applied. During a serious incident process the following will actions will take place:

• The student concerned will be placed in the behaviour room or outside the office of a member of the senior leadership team/pastoral team, while they write a statement. The student will have the opportunity to verbally discuss the incident with a member of the behaviour team.

• Depending on the nature of the incident, the member of staff overseeing the serious incident process will decide whether the student can return to lessons while the investigation is complete or whether the student needs to remain out of circulation from the rest of the school.

• The member of staff leading the serious incident process will take statements from staff involved, any other students involved and witnesses.

• Parents/carers will be informed that a serious incident process has started in relation to their child (either as a victim or a perpetrator) and they will be kept informed throughout the process and when a decision has been made and a sanction has been agreed, if necessary.

• (You can see the serious incident process here)

The IER is a room within the school where students work quietly, away from the rest of the school, for a specific period of time. Time in the IER is a sanction for specific behaviours as per our sanction table in appendix 4. Students in IER are out of circulation from the rest of the school. While in IER, students will have the opportunity to reflect on their behaviour and they will receive mentoring to support them in getting back on track.

Students can be referred to the Internal Exclusion Room (IER) for one of the following reasons:

• Whilst isolated after a serious incident has taken place.

• When department parking has failed, or the student refuses to be parked.

• To serve an internal exclusion in line with the school’s behaviour sanction system.

• To serve a respite placement from a partner school.

The management and operation of the IER

• The IER is managed by the behaviour coordinator and is supervised by behaviour mentors or any other members of staff directed by the headteacher.

• Students who have been given IER as a pre-arranged sanction will serve the last 40 minutes of their IER in the daily detention.

• Students in IER will have their break and lunch time at different times to the rest of the school.

• While in IER students will complete [where possible] the work that they would be completing in each lesson of that day. Where this is not possible, students will complete numeracy and literacy work matched their year group. There will also be an opportunity for students to reflect on why they are in the IER and the positive behaviour and attitude needed to move forward in a positive way.

Reintegration meetings

Parents/carers for students are in the IER, will be required to attend a meeting with the behaviour mentor or head of year before the student returns to lessons.

In situations where a student’s behaviour constitutes a serious or major breach of the school’s behaviour policy, an exclusion will be applied to reflect the severity of the misconduct. The serious incident process will be carried as part of any decision to exclusion. In rare circumstances where a student’s behaviour is deemed to be a risk to themselves or others, or they fail to comply with the instructions of the headteacher or the deputy headteachers, the headteacher can start the exclusion process immediately, pending the serious incident process. However, in most cases students will remain in school while the process leading to the decision to exclude is carried out.

There are three types of exclusion.

• Internal exclusion (IER): when a student is excluded from normal lessons but remains within the school in the internal exclusion room. Students placed in the IER finish school at the end of the daily detention. The behaviour mentor or head of year will conduct a reintegration meeting after an internal exclusion.

• Fixed-term exclusion: when a student is excluded from school for a specific number of days. The head of year or SLT link will conduct a reintegration meeting after a fixed term exclusion.

• Permanent exclusion: where the student loses their place at school.

Exclusion, whether internal, fixed term or permanent, may be used for any of the reasons as stated in the school’s behaviour policy. This is not an exhaustive list and there may be other situations where the headteacher makes the judgment that exclusion is an appropriate sanction. The headteacher will consider the incident, all the evidence and any required reasonable adjustments, before a final decision is made. The headteacher will make a decision in regard to exclusion if ‘on the balance of probabilities’, the student did what they are alleged to have done.

For further details about how we manage exclusions, please refer to our Exclusions Policy.