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Behaviour in practice

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Hi all, 

Here's something to ponder from Mark Tomlins, Assistant Director of Teaching and Learning: 

“How can we use HPL to build our behaviour policy and practices?

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?”

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  1. Post by Lewis Sargent
    Lewis Sargent - Head of Primary
    I am leading HPL in our school (Wales International School Abu Dhabi) and we are currently in our first year. In term 2 we looked at changing our behaviour policy to incorporate HPL. 


    Our main focus was on how we can install the VAA's and ACP's within our reward systems to promote the language and understanding for the children. This has also led to children having targets to develop in certain areas where they get the least amount of points. eg. They have completed maximum points for hard working but their lowest points are in Creativity. We, as teachers, can then have those conversations with the children about how the children can develop and showcase creativity. This is certainly a work in progress and will be reviewed for the next academic year. I have found that classes that are most confident with HPL are those where the teacher is also confident in using HPL consistently in class. 

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