Rewards
How will hard work and achievements be rewarded?
There is nothing education cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift us all to the stars. Our rewards are there to acknowledge a student’s part in investing in their education and future.
Merit Award
Teachers can stamp a merit in a student’s planner for good attainment and effort in classwork and homework. The tutor can stamp a merit in a student’s planner for every two weeks of full attendance and for positive contributions to the Academy.
Postcards and Phone Calls
Postcards and phone calls home. If a student has collected lots of merits, a raising achievement manager will send a postcard home or to make a phone call.
Weekly College Assembly Awards
Tutors will keep a total of all the merits students are awarded each week. There will be certificates for the top three students in each college, awarded in college assemblies each week.
Termly College Awards Assembly
Tutors will keep a total of all the merits students are awarded each term. There will be a college awards assembly each term with prizes and certificates for those with the highest totals.
Lunch with the Principal and Chair of Governors
Each term the student with the highest total of merits in each college will meet the Principal and Chair of Governors for a special lunch.
Annual Awards Ceremony
There will be an annual awards ceremony celebrating those students who have achieved and contributed the most throughout the year.
Sanctions
What are the consequences of Poor Behaviour?
Students will never receive a sanction if they follow the Code of Practice. Even if they occasionally break the code, they will have the opportunity to accept lesser sanctions. They will only receive the more serious sanctions if their poor behaviour is very serious or if they insist on escalating the situation.
Sanction Levels
Reminder and Warning
Teachers will remind students three times if their behaviour in class is not appropriate and prevents the student or others from learning.
15 Minute Detention
If the student’s behaviour does not improve after three warnings, the teacher will write a 15-minute after-school detention into the student’s planner.
30 Minute Detention and Removal from Lesson
If the student’s behaviour still does not improve, the teacher will change the detention to 30 minutes and the Curriculum Leader or a Behaviour Manager will remove the student to another classroom or to the Exit Room for the rest of the lesson. The Exit Room staff will discuss the student’s behaviour.
Principal’s Detention
If a student is present at school and does not attend a 30-minute detention, the teacher will phone home and set a 60-minute Principal’s Detention for Friday night. The student will be collected by a Behaviour Manager for this detention.
Whole Day in the Seclusion Room
If a student’s poor behaviour is very serious, for example total disruption to the lesson making it impossible for the teacher to continue, a student will be immediately removed from the lesson by a Behaviour Manager and be placed in the Seclusion Room for one or more whole days. A student may also be placed in the Seclusion Room for one or more days if their behaviour is poor in a number of lessons or for other reasons like bullying or fighting.
Fixed Term Exclusion from School
If a student’s poor behaviour is very frequent or very serious, they will be excluded from school. A meeting with the family will be arranged at the end of the exclusion to discuss ways to avoid further problems.
Permanent Exclusion
The student will cease to be a student at Ormiston Victory Academy.
