Brompton Academy Additional Information

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT WELFARE AND INCLUSIONS Inclusion is at the heart of what drives the Academy. We will aim to meet the needs of all our students to overcome barriers by promoting learning and enabling students to become independent learners. The Inclusions Team offers support via a Safeguarding Team, Careers Advisor, Attendance Team, Pastoral Team and Learning Mentors. PASTORAL CARE General welfare and discipline is the responsibility of all staff. Each student will have access to a tutor, who is supported by the Head of Year and a non-teaching Pastoral Manager. These members of staff will nurture students through their time at the Academy, providing smaller support units within the larger Academy. The tutors will build a strong relationship with each of their tutees, to give encouragement and rewards, and to monitor his or her academic progress and social development. This will ensure a high level of self-discipline, and builds awareness for others. Our firm belief is that if the quality of teaching in the classroom motivates our students, then the Academy will be a positive learning environment with good discipline. All students will participate in the personal, social, health and economic education programme. Emotional intelligence activities will be delivered to aid students’ sense of self and the world and people around them. The Academy will work hard to develop and instil self-discipline at an early stage.

CODE OF CONDUCT AND DISCIPLINE The ethos of the Academy is built around the student ‘Code of Conduct’ which encourages students to take responsibility for their own actions. However, it is necessary on occasion for students to be disciplined and sanctions applied on a tiered basis. The Academy will be quite clear with students about behavioural expectations. This rationale is based on the resolve that learning cannot be interrupted or disturbed by misbehaviour from any student. Sanctions will include withdrawal of privileges, time in the Leadership Learning Support (LLS) room, detentions, and in severe cases this might then be a referral to the Exclusions Room (ER), a Fixed Term Suspension (FTS) or a Permanent Exclusion (PEX). The Academy can legally detain students on the same day without parental notification for a period of up to 30 minutes, even when parents/carers object. Detentions are given for breaches of the Academy Code of Conduct. Students, who are late with no good reason, are kept the same day for 30 minutes after the Academy day. Failure to attend the detention will incur a further sanction. Detentions are held on the same day of issue and will last 30 minutes. A text will be sent to parents/carers if your child has been placed in a detention. During the detention period of 30 minutes, students will be expected to complete a restorative conversation with their class teacher who has set the detention. If students fail to attend the detention set, they will be set a 45 minute SLT detention. Failure to complete this 45 minute detention, they will be placed in the ER on the following day and will complete

their detention after school on that day. If a student has a number of detentions in one day or week other sanctions will be used. On entry to the Academy a clear disciplinary structure will be explained in full to all parents and carers.

MOTIVATIONAL SCHEME AND REACH REWARDS

The Academy believes in celebrating and promoting positive achievements for all students. Our REACH ethos underpins and drives our reward system and REACH points are allocated based on students demonstrating achievements in the following areas: Resilience, Equality, Aspiration, Community and Happiness. REACH points are essential for the school competitions that happen throughout the year, encouraging our students to be positively competitive. REACH points are also great for students as individual winners as points can be exchanged for gift vouchers, trips, events, raffles, or charitable donations. We also have our own REACH shop where many great prizes can be found. REACH points are allocated by all staff and recorded through our electronic software called Epraise, which means that students, parents, and carers can easily track the progress of REACH points and see the different REACH categories for allocation of points.

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