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A whole-school behaviour strategy

Behaviour
In a bid to tackle challenging behaviour and support students at risk of exclusion, school leader Louise Vereen introduced a key worker support scheme...

Student behaviour is always an impassioned topic within education. The reasons for bad behaviour and methods for ensuring good behaviour are always in debate.

Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form, which is an outstanding school on the eastern side of Norwich, is no exception. Like all schools, we face the daily challenge of ensuring all students are present and ready to learn.

The most challenging students present a range of issues and there are often challenging situations within their home life, SEN and attendance concerns which lead to the child struggling with behaviour in the classroom. Too often, students would end up in “time-out”, losing lunch or break-times, in detention or in the worst cases, excluded.

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