Brooklands Primary School is committed to encouraging the best standards of behaviour at all times, both within and outside of school (e.g. school trips). Our vision of being a school that ensures we 'make everyday count' is evident through everything we do and in how we manage behaviour in the school.

Our primary aims are that every member of the school community feels valued and respected. Where everyone is treated fairly, in an environment where everyone feels happy, safe and valued. Our behaviour policy encourages children to become positive, caring individuals, responsible for their own behaviour and increasingly independent members of the school community. 

At Brooklands, we have 3 clear expectations of our behaviour which we abide to everyday:

We reiterate these expectations with our children to support their understanding of their personal responsibilities at school. Our school expectations are displayed in classrooms and around school to encourage and remind children of our shared values.  

We strongly believe that our school values are explicitly covered by all our 3 expectations. However, at Brooklands, we have ensured that each value is aligned more to each expectation in the following way:

Class Dojo:

At our school, we use ‘Class Dojo’, an online behaviour management system that fosters positive pupil behaviours and classroom culture. Children will earn ‘Dojo points’ based on their classroom conduct e.g. taking pride in their work, taking responsibility. The points are earned for demonstrating one of our behaviour expectations in class and also for regular reading and completion of homework tasks.

Dojo Points and prizes:

These are awarded to children who earn a number of Dojo points in increments of 25. The children will then get to choose a prize from the Dojo Shop as a reward for accruing these points!

The aims of our Behaviour policy are:

• To create an environment that encourages and reinforces good behaviour
• To define acceptable standards of behaviour
• To encourage consistency of response in dealing with behaviour
• To promote self-esteem, self-discipline and positive relationships
• To ensure that the school’s expectations and strategies are widely known and understood

Positive Play

Mrs Cocker is a trained Positive Play Support Worker. Positive Play is an early intervention programme designed to raise the self-esteem and emotional wellbeing of shy, timid, disaffected and challenging children. The structured sessions are tailored to meet individual needs, assisting in developing, listening and communication skills, addressing anger management issues and helping children and young people to deal with the consequences of their actions. It is designed to equip children and young people with the necessary resilience, social and life skills to manage the issues that confront them enabling them to access the curriculum and achieve their potential.

Positive Play-Support aims and objectives:

• to allow young people a space to express and communicate feelings and difficulties in their lives, through a variety of media in constructive rather than aggressive ways and in a safe non-threatening environment
• to help young people feel good about themselves and raise self-esteem by providing activities that look at their strengths and by valuing what they do and making it special
• to provide a non-authoritarian, supportive, reliable, safe, unconditional relationship within schools and other settings
• to provide some of the early experiences that may have been missed but which are necessary for formal education and social interaction
• to help young people acquire the complex range of life skills needed to achieve their full potential.

Positive Play sessions are once a week and usually last up to 12 weeks.