Behaviour Culture

At St Joseph’s we have a strong culture of positive behaviour, which is rooted in our Catholic beliefs, Catholic schools’ pupil profile values and virtues, Catholic Social Teaching and the British Values. Our high standards for behaviour reflect the core values of our school, setting a clear vision of what good behaviour looks like at St Joseph’s. As a result, our consistent whole-school approach to behaviour ensures that: safety for all is priority, all rewards and sanctions are fair and proportionate, and that everyone is treated with respect. Our behaviour policy and culture permeate through every aspect of school life. 

To find out more about the core influences on our behaviour culture, please use the links below:

All stakeholders are involved in the formation of the behaviour rules, rewards and sanctions.  Pupil voice is facilitated through the School Council, who take a lead role in developing, implementing and monitoring behaviour approaches and systems.  

Consistently clear language and images are used to allow all pupils to understand our expectations for behaviour. All pupils, in all Key Stages, are taught what good behaviour look like e.g. good listening behaviour, to create an environment where good conduct is more likely than poor conduct.  

Good behaviours are taught within a personalised behaviour curriculum.  This is delivered in PSHE lessons in the first month of the academic year.  It is then revisited as and when staff feel pupils need reminding of the behaviour expectations. 

Teaching staff are encouraged to reflect on good conduct and behaviour using behaviour reflection sentence stems. When staff apply sanctions, they do so acknowledging that these responses to misbehaviour are for the purpose of deterring poor conduct, protecting everyone and improving pupils’ understanding of what good behaviour and conduct is.  Misbehaviour is dealt with predictably, proportionately and assertively in accordance with systems stated within this policy and its supporting documents. 

At St Joseph’s, we want everyone to be safe, happy and healthy. We want a community that is free from bullying and discrimination. We want a community which is respectful, truthful and discerning. This is why we are united against anti-bullying! We currently hold a bronze award with the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA). 

We have created anti-bullying policies for both pupils and adults.  The children's policy was produced by pupils, for other children in our school to know what bullying is, what it looks like, and what they can do about bullying.

We support Anti-Bullying week, annually.  The School Council are the anti-bullying ambassadors for our school and they lead on anti-bullying initiatives.  We learn about positive behaviours during PSHE lessons and as part of our behaviour curriculum.  

Our aim is to achieve the UAB silver status award, by the end of the 2024-2025 academic year.

You can access all behaviour and anti-bullying policies, using the link below.