School Stories inspired by When the Adults Change

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Early Years

School Story – Easton Academy

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 – LaceyField Louth

School Story – LaceyField Louth

About your school - What did the school look 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...

Primary

School Story – Easton Academy

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

School Story – Morley Victoria Primary School

About your school - What did the school look 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...

School Story – LaceyField Louth

School Story – LaceyField Louth

About your school - What did the school look 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...

School Story – Whittington CE Primary School

School Story – Whittington CE Primary School

About your school - What did the school look 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...

School Story – The Aquila School

School Story – The Aquila School

About your school - What did the school look 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 Jenny Mosley –...

School Story – Spire Junior School

School Story – Spire Junior School

About your school - What did the school look 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...

School Story – Southwood Primary School

School Story – Southwood Primary School

About your school - What did the school look 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....

School Story – Eastfield Primary School

School Story – Eastfield Primary School

About your school - What did the school look 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.’...

School Story – Deanery C.E Primary School

School Story – Deanery C.E Primary School

About your school - What did the school look 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...

Secondary

School Story – The Aquila School

School Story – The Aquila School

About your school - What did the school look 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 Jenny Mosley –...

School Story – Banff Academy

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 – New-Bridge Integrated College

School Story – New-Bridge Integrated College

About your school - What did the school look 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....