How can we use HPL to build our behaviour policy and practises?
How can we use HPL to build our behaviour policy and practises?
During my time leading my school through World Class School Accreditation, the first full school action we developed was to change our behaviour policy. The school was an inner-city UK state primary school. The catchment was very diverse, and many pupils came to school with challenging backgrounds. Traditional behaviour strategies were not working for a small percentage of pupils but these pupils’ behaviour impacted on whole year groups or phases. We looked at changing our behaviour policy with the HPL VAAs at its heart. Instead of being dictatorial with looked at behaviour as being aspirational. For pupils to develop the behaviours that they needed to be high performers and confident learners. Coupled with this was the essential understanding of our pupils both at a school level and individual level for classes.
Have you used HPL to shape behaviour in your school? How did you do it? What worked well that you can share?”