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7/29/2019 Restorative Practice Parent Guidance
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IntroduconThe schools behaviour policy will be updated in January to take into account
Restorave Pracces. This leaet explains a lile about Restorave Pracces and
how we intend to use this approach to enhance community, relaonships and
communicaon to support learning at our school.
We believe that partnership between parents and school is essenal in helping
children to get the most out of their learning. Therefore, it is important that parents
are well informed so that they are able to: Help their child get the best out of school Support the school in providing the highest quality of educaon for their child Understand how any problems will be dealt with and support their child and
the school in resolving these issues appropriately and sensively.Code of conduct: At Gomersal St. Marys we have code of conduct which applies to
everyone. Our code isWe are always:
ConsiderateCarefulCaring
Courteous
to everyone and everything.In addion to this, each class agree on a class charter at the start of each year, a setof promises that the children and teachers agree to adhere to in order to allow
everyone to learn in a safe and secure environment. This is an important aspect of
Restorave Pracces as it allows children to take an acve part in decision making
and ensures that everyone has their opinions heard.
Rewarding Children:At Gomersal St. Marys children are rewarded in a variety of ways for following our
code of conduct and for achievement. Rewarding posive behaviour is central to our
behaviour policy.
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Restorave PraccesAs of January, Restorave Pracces will be used to enable us to deal with
inappropriate behaviour by: Making children think about how others are aected by their behaviour Allowing a person who is upset or has been harmed to tell the person
responsible how they feel Separang the deed from the doer. This means that children are able to
appreciate the dierence between behaving badly and being a bad person. Allowing all the people involved in an incident to say what they think needs
to be done to make things beer Ensuring that everyone has a say and a chance to make things beerWe will use Restorave Quesons when dealing with incidents. They will be used
informally, for example in the playground as an incident occurs, or they may be
used as part of a formal conference. These quesons are used as follows:To respond to challenging behaviour: What happened? What were you thinking about at the me? What have your thoughts been since? Who has been aected by what you did? In what way have they been aected? What do you think needs to happen next?To respond to those harmed by others acons:What happened?What were you thinking about at the me?What have your thoughts been since?How has this aected you and others?What has been the hardest thing for you?What do you think needs to happen next?
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It is important that all of the people involved in an incident come to an agreement
about what needs to happen to make things right. The restorave process does not
remove consequences but instead allows everyone to agree on what the most
eecve response should be in order to repair the situaon. Other aspects of Restorave PraccesAecve StatementsAecve statements mean telling a person how their behaviour is aecng others
e.g. I feel really disappointed that you . because. This makes the person who is
displaying inappropriate behaviour think about the impact their behaviour has on
others. It helps them to understand why their behaviour is undesirable.
CirclesThis involves children sing in a circle to discuss an idea or topic. There are clear
ground rules for these discussions which enable children to build respecul
relaonships with each other.
Circles can be used for a variety of purposes such as talking about feelings,
developing closer relaonships, assessing learning or discussing behavioural issues.
Whatever they are used for, the aim is to allow everyone to have a voice and
develop their condence and ability in discussing their emoons or opinions. They
are central to enhancing our school community and the relaonships which make it
strong.
At Gomersal St. Marys we believe that children should be taught the values and
skills that will allow them to achieve their fullest potenal. We believe that in
doing so, we are equipping our children with the tools that will enable them to
become happy and healthy adults. By developing the values of respect, tolerance,
empathy, forgiveness and jusce we aim to achieve our school mission statement
of:Learning the Chrisan Way
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