Code of Conduct and Approach to Discipline

Our school philosophy, educational programmes and advisory programme are designed to help children make skillful choices that will contribute towards the development of  a happy and safe community. 

Karma (Kamma) is the idea that all actions (no matter how big or small) have consequences. In Buddhist principles, it is believed that there are skilful/wholesome and unskillful/unwholesome actions. A skilful action is one that produces happiness, whereas an unskilful action is one that produces suffering. All actions have consequences, and there is always the opportunity and responsibility  to learn and grow from those consequences. 

Our social emotional learning aspects help children understand skillful choices such as conflict resolution skills, skillful communication, and strategies for processing their own emotions. Our work is guided by the UN’s Rights of the Child,  and other research based approaches which include Responsive Classroom and Postive Discipline.

When children have “unskillful actions,” our aim is both to uphold their dignity and to support them in learning how to make more skillful choices; therefore, we do not have a set of punishments. To support learning and growth, we will work with the individual child to understand the root cause of the misstep, and determine how to best support them in correcting their actions.  

As part of our collaborative effort to raise happy children who are skilled in making wise choices, we ask that parents refrain from using methods of rewards and punishment at home. It is especially important that children do not experience emotional violence or corporal punishment, as these means do not support a child in learning. They also make it more difficult for a child to adjust to peaceful interventions at school. We also encourage parents to attend the Mindfulness and Loving Kindness Intervention sessions within the parenting education series.