Behaviour Expectations
Every day and every lesson: classroom routines and expectations
Uniform
- Tutors are responsible for a morning uniform check
- Always stop a pupil
- Make sure that it is addressed before they move on
- No entry to lesson without appropriate uniform
- No dismissal from lesson without appropriate uniform
Lesson Start
- Actively monitor the corridor and address any behaviour that does not meet expectations: orderly and calm transitions
- Be highly visible at the door and control entry: uniform check
- Warm welcome and praise pupils as they arrive
- Have a ‘do now’ activity ready, visible and accessible
- Complete formal register – insist on silence
- Pupils who arrive late (more than five mins after the start of the lesson): always a class teacher detention. If previous teacher has detained a pupil, make sure they have a ‘Out of Learning’ card
Lesson organisation
- We direct where a pupil sits in a lesson. Pupils are always organised according to learning needs (not friendship or pacification)
- It is always accordingly to a pre-planned seating plan with a clear rationale.
- Equipment out on the desk – including planner
- Expected equipment: pens, pencils, ruler, calculator (for lessons where it is appropriate) and planner
- Pupils DO NOT leave a lesson unless in exceptional circumstances. Any pupil out of a lesson must have a corridor pass or ‘Temporary Out of Learning’ pass.
Fundamental learner expectations – STAR
- Sit-up
- Track the speaker
- Answer and Ask questions (no hands-up, unless asking a question)
- Respect for the teacher and for your peers
Presentation
- Line-off (with ruler) previous work
- Date in top-right and underlined with a ruler
- Underlined title with a ruler
- Diagrams / tables / graphs in pencil – use ruler where appropriate.
- Write in black pen only
- Mistakes neatly crossed out
- Home learning is clearly labelled
- When expectations have not been met – do it again.
End of lesson
- In good time – no rushing – calm, organised and orderly
- Teacher checks + pupils tidy the room
- Stand behind chairs ready for dismissal
- Uniform check
- Visible by the door
- Dismiss in sections and only when instructed – calm and orderly
- Praise, reward and positivity where pupils have met expectations
- Remain by the door – monitor the corridor and arrival