Archive | Behaviour

Parents of pupils who have been excluded from school will be required to keep their children indoors, attend reintegration interviews with the head teacher and work with teachers to develop strategies for improving the behaviour of their child, announced Ed Balls today. Measures from the Education and Inspections Act 2006 that come into effect this [...]

A teacher who secretly filmed unruly behaviour in the classroom for a television documentary was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct on Friday. Angela Mason, of Aberdare Gardens, London, went undercover at several schools in the capital and the north east of England for the Channel 5 programme Classroom Chaos. Using a camera hidden in [...]

  At least one child aged five or under is expelled from school every week and dozens more are suspended as bad behaviour among pupils soars. Official Government figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show that increasing numbers of children are being barred from primary school for offences as serious as sexual assault, [...]

New behaviour guidelines have been released. Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, has unveiled plans to reward good behaviour with I-pods, mountain bikes and other rewards. New Government advice states that pupils should be given five rewards for every criticism or punishment. The advice states, “It has long been established that rewards are more effective than punishment [...]

According to the ATL a third of teachers have faced physical aggression and it is leading to teachers leaving the profession.  This comes after increased powers to enable teachers to restrain disruptive pupils came into force in England which explicitly state that teachers have the right to physically restrain and remove unruly pupils and impose [...]

MPs have demanded more government action to combat bullying in schools after evidence highlighting attacks on special needs children and minority groups was published by the National Autistic Society. MPs on the Commons Select Committee on Education have highlighted a dearth of reliable statistics on bullying, and warned that teachers are not sufficiently trained to [...]

The BBC has reported on a legal case that could lead to a rethink of the physical restraint of pupils in schools.  Jade Chambers, a seven year old with the language skills of a three-year-old was taught at Heathwood School, in Bedfordshire, where staff allegedly repeatedly had to restrain her. Jade was initially taught in [...]

The 20th-24th November is Anti-Bullying Week in England.  To coincide with this the Government today announced plans to expand the ‘Peer Mentoring’ scheme. The scheme encourages schools to elect young people to become pupil representatives who have responsibility to help teachers maintain good behaviour, prevent bullying and monitor pupil safety. Bullying Online provides a comprehensive [...]

The results of the national bullying survey (8,574 children, parents, teachers and adults in the first six months of 2006) have been released on the Bullying Online website and it makes very interesting reading: 69% of pupils who took the National Bullying Survey 2006 survey said that they had been bullied in the last 12 [...]

Hoorah! Just what we need – another initiative. This time, ‘state primary education’, is going to be ‘reformed’, so that children who do not go to independent schools will develop good communication and team-working skills. Education Secretary Alan Johnson said today that private schools give children the vital skills they need to find good jobs [...]