Staff reward positive behaviour with a ‘dojo’. Parents join an online app, Class Dojo, which alerts them when their child receives a dojo. These may be given out for: good listening, sitting quietly and paying attention on the carpet, being kind or helpful, moving around the school in a sensible way and for many many more positive reasons. When each child in the class has collected 100 dojos we have a class party.
Class rules are agreed together in a class charter. When rules are broken we have a behaviour management system in Reception Class of a sunshine, a cloud and a thunder cloud. Children start on the sunshine and if a rule is broken they are often given a reminder of the expected behaviour. Another occasion of poor behaviour results in their name moving to the cloud. This is a visual reminder to change this behaviour. A further incidence of poor behaviour would result in their name moving to the thundercloud. This then has a consequence. Children are asked to take a 5 minute time out to think about the behaviour and they lose 1 dojo point.
As a school we have a zero tolerance on intentionally hurting others. In this case you would automatically move to the thunder cloud.
On a very rare occasion children who then do not modify their behaviour would visit the Head Teacher’s office to discuss their actions.
Children can also work their way from the cloud back to the sunshine by demonstrating good behaviours and attitudes.
Each day everyone returns to the sunshine.
