school stories

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...

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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...