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Bridgend College
Watch Paul's interview with Viv Buckley from Bridgend College here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6Ez8JGNhE
School Story – St Leonard’s Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Before we adopted a system of relational practice like many primary schools we had a traffic light system, alongside a set of golden rules. Children who followed the rules stayed on green, those who needed a...
School Story – Banff Academy
About your school - What did the school look like before relational practice? Alan Horberry took up the position of Headteacher of Banff Academy in September 2017. Prior to that point the school had undergone uncertain times in terms of leadership following an...
Primary
School Story – The British School in Tokyo
What did the school look like before relational practice? We had a lot of inconsistencies in the way in which we managed behaviour across the school. The perception was that there was no Behaviour Policy. There was no culture of recognition. What triggered the change?...
School Story – Our Lady & St Gerard’s RC Primary School
About your school - What did the school look like before relational practice? Punitive approaches; ‘Detentions’ with no impact – same children in detention for same reasons over and over again. Behaviour sanctions involved children sitting in silence to ‘reflect’ on...
The Oaks Community Primary School
The Oaks Community Primary School. https://twitter.com/TheOaksCP/status/1682402819914039296
School Story – The Catholic School of Saint Gregory The Great
What was your school like before relational practice? In writing this, it fills us with shame! Prior to beginning our relational practice school children were exposed to huge amounts of public and personal shaming. This could include names being written on the board,...
School Story – St Leonard’s Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Before we adopted a system of relational practice like many primary schools we had a traffic light system, alongside a set of golden rules. Children who followed the rules stayed on green, those who needed a...
School Story – St Joseph and St Bede RC Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Our school is a larger-than-average Catholic Primary School in a deprived area of Bury. Before relational practice, we had a number of internal exclusions, some children at risk of exclusions, numerous low-level...
School Story – Falconer’s Hill Infant School
What was your school like before relational practice? FHIS prior to becoming an attachment-aware and relational practice-based school followed a disciplinary behaviour management system. Each classroom had three faces; one green and smiley, one amber and wobbly and...
School Story – Easton Academy
Easton Academy sits in an incredibly diverse community. It is a fabulous school buzzing with energy. Walking out onto the playground there are big groups of children dancing in sync with a video screen, scooters whizzing past, balls flying and children on pogo sticks...
School Story – Morley Victoria Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Children were on display in the hall during breaktimes for not doing homework/getting planner signed – very little restorative work was being done with these children. Overall there was a small amount of...
School Story – LaceyField Louth
What was your school like before relational practice? LaceyField is two schools; two schools who share a car park but hadn’t worked as one before September 2019. At this point, the infant academy had just received a requires improvement judgement and the junior...
School Story – Whittington CE Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? We currently have 230 children on roll. Whittington is not an area of significant social deprivation (21% disadvantaged), but the school is provided with the challenge of a large number of high-needs children, with...
School Story – The Aquila School
What was your school like before relational practice? As our school has grown, we have moved from being a primary school to an all-through school. Our previous behaviour policy was based around the primary behaviour work done by ***** ****** – which included pupil’s...
School Story – Spire Junior School
What was your school like before relational practice? It was April 2022 when I was sat in our pastoral office at Spire Junior School awaiting the inspectors feedback at the end of a section 5 (2 day inspection). The school is situated in the centre of Chesterfield in...
School Story – Southwood Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Management and responsive of behaviour was punitive. We had a number of children absconding on a frequent basis, partly as a response to how boundaries, rules, expectations were delivered. Up to 30 children a term...
School Story – Meridian Community Primary School and Nursery
What was your school like before relational practice? Meridian Community Primary School and Nursery is an inclusive school, and all members of the school community should be free from discrimination of any sort (as set out in the Equality Act 2010). To this end the...
School Story – Eastfield Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Before embarking on our relational practice journey, our positive behaviour for learning policy had started to feel less ‘positive.’ We had become a school with more and more ‘chance steps.’ Our school felt like we...
School Story – Deanery C.E Primary School
What was your school like before relational practice? Vision We believe that everything we do is a faithful response to God’s faithfulness, shown to us through Jesus Christ. Our vision is to reflect God’s Glory in every season of life, in all aspects, from the little...
Secondary
School Story – Oak Wood School
What was your school like before relational practice? Before we implemented our new Rewards and Sanctions Policy, making use of the ‘When the Adults Change…’ book, Oak Wood School (previously Abbotsfield School for Boys) had been judged as Requires Improvement or...
School Story – The British School in Tokyo
What did the school look like before relational practice? We had a lot of inconsistencies in the way in which we managed behaviour across the school. The perception was that there was no Behaviour Policy. There was no culture of recognition. What triggered the change?...
School Story – Bannerman High School
What was your school like before relational practice? 2016-2017 - Number of exclusions - 87 Number of openings lost (half days) 303 A high number of behaviour referrals 2018-2019 (Aug-March) 2250 referrals. Before we embraced relational practice as a whole school...
School Story – The Aquila School
What was your school like before relational practice? As our school has grown, we have moved from being a primary school to an all-through school. Our previous behaviour policy was based around the primary behaviour work done by ***** ****** – which included pupil’s...
School Story – New-Bridge Integrated College
What was your school like before relational practice? New-Bridge is an Integrated and all ability College in Loughbrickland, Co Down Northern Ireland. We have 654 pupils of all backgrounds and faiths educated in an inclusive school community. Our school recognises the...
School Story – Banff Academy
About your school - What did the school look like before relational practice? Alan Horberry took up the position of Headteacher of Banff Academy in September 2017. Prior to that point the school had undergone uncertain times in terms of leadership following an...
Further Education
School Story – Oak Wood School
What was your school like before relational practice? Before we implemented our new Rewards and Sanctions Policy, making use of the ‘When the Adults Change…’ book, Oak Wood School (previously Abbotsfield School for Boys) had been judged as Requires Improvement or...
Bridgend College
Watch Paul's interview with Viv Buckley from Bridgend College here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6Ez8JGNhE
THrough Schools
School Story – Wales International school
What was your school like before relational practice? A traditional and rigid approach to managing behaviour Inconsistent approach from teachers Too much focus around the negative behaviours Lack of positivity from staff and students. Shouting and calling students out...