Best Practice

Helping students to re-engage with their education

Behaviour
Senior leader Emlyn Hall created and implemented an effective intervention system for pupils with behavioural issues, helping them to re-engage with school life. He explains how and why his approach worked.

I joined the Future Leaders programme, staying in my current school as part of the 2012 cohort, after a career spanning 13 years and five schools.

Behaviour management is one of my areas of interest and as part of the programme, with the support of my principal, I looked at how we could change our approach to help re-engage our most challenging pupils.

First, I thought about what we can do when children disengage from school and walk from incident to incident. There are a number of approaches that we can use and often not in isolation:

Firefighting: dealing with problems as and when they arise, hoping for students to make the right decision and a subsequent change in behaviour.

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