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At Monkhouse, we believe that not all behaviours are a choice; they usually reflect something a child is trying to communicate, but doesn’t have the words to express. Our ambition is to create a safe learning environment for all children, founded on everyone supporting each other to be their best selves and every member of our school community being respected and valued. Developing relationships based on trust and mutual respect is at the heart of our behaviour policy, where all children feel supported, cared for, listened to and understood.
To support our vision in developing an emotionally healthy school, we have embed a restorative “PACE system".
PACE Principles:
We recognise that understanding emotions is a key aspect to understanding and managing behaviour. Using the PACE approach allows us to remain curious and demonstrate the desire to understand a behaviour and what it communicates with the child.
Playfulness - Enjoy children’s company and have fun with them.
Acceptance - Accept and support the acknowledgement of feelings and thoughts.
Curiosity - Genuine interest and desire to understand it from a child’s perspective.
Empathy - Body language and tone will match the message you are exploring
| Strand | What this could look like at Monkhouse |
| Playful | Find out about the child's interests, Find small moments to joke or talk about what’s important to the child, turn negative comments into more friendly expectations. |
| Acceptance | Validate the child’s feelings - “I understand that you are feeling….”, Talk about own feelings - model that it’s ok to experience different feelings, Separate behaviour from the child and explain it’s ok to be _____, but it is not ok to ____. |
| Curiosity | Using ‘I wonder…” statements, avoid answering for the child with what you think, use what you know about the child to provide your wonderings. |
| Empathy | On their level - ‘I’m sorry you are feeling (emotion).’ , acknowledge that it's tricky to feel the way they do, what can we do to help you to feel better? |
If you follow our code of conduct, we will celebrate you by…
We expect everyone to show our school values, but where we see or consider children to be putting in that extra effort, we will…
If you follow our code of conduct as a whole class team, we will celebrate you all as a class.
Our reward system will be class based and will require you to work well for yourself and as part of a team to gain a class reward. Class house points will be earned when we see children going above the basic expectations and trying their best to show the school values. Equally, class house points might be rewarded when you do something brilliant as a whole class, for example everyone in your class showing respect in assembly.
As a class, you will select a reward from the treats board that you will work towards achieving. When you have filled your house points jar, you can enjoy this treat together to celebrate as a class.
The rewards that you can select from will change every half term, but may include popcorn and a movie to end the day, a mini sports day afternoon, a class disco, a Lego / games session, animation session, cooking session, creative time and many more.
As we have expressed a need for consistency when dealing with negative behaviours, as a school we need to ensure that there is consistency for what children earn the class points for and the level of reward given.