Behaviour management in the nursery

Our Vision - “To be the very best we can be.”

Mission - Our mission is to prepare all of our children for the next stage of their lives to enable them to contribute positively to their community.

Values - Our five key values are:

Respect

Love

Inclusiveness

Responsibility

Quality

Our Core Beliefs:

Respect yourself, everything, and everyone.
We show love by caring for everyone and keeping them safe.
We include everybody in everything, no matter what.
We own our choices and understand that everybody is responsible for their actions.
We strive to do the very best that we can and accept nothing less.

We believe the following are important:

Create a safe, respectful, and inclusive environment for pupils, staff, and parents
Model appropriate behaviour for our pupils at all times
Work in partnership with parents to support their child’s learning

We believe that a shared approach to dealing with behavioural difficulties is essential so we will always involve parents/carers in developing and implementing appropriate plans for dealing with difficult behaviour.

In the Nursery, we will deal with difficult behaviour by:
Creating a calm, caring environment where children are treated with respect
Providing structure within this environment where the children can be free to choose and experiment

Agreeing on acceptable and unacceptable behaviour within the Nursery and sharing this with all newcomers both children and adults to ensure consistency

Adults will provide a positive model for the children taking into account friendliness, care and courtesy

Behaviour Management Policy

In our Nursery we believe that for children to grow and prosper both socially and intellectually they need the support of a warm, friendly, environment where adults make them feel secure, appreciated, and respected, and where they can try out various ways of acting and interacting without fear of humiliation, blame or neglect. We will work within the Children Act 1989/2004 guidelines on behaviour and sanctions, namely that children should be respected and that corporal punishment (slapping, smacking, or shaking etc) will not be acceptable practice at Harvills Hawthorn Nursery, although it may be necessary to take physical action in an emergency to prevent personal injury or serious damage to property.

The following strategies will be undertaken to manage children’s behaviour:

We believe that children flourish in a calm caring environment so we will ensure that children are treated with respect and all communication will be guiding and supportive not directive or controlling.

We believe that children need structure within which they can be free to choose and experiment so we will set limits for children and maintain them consistently.

We believe that children appreciate explanations and suggestions of other ways to act so we will always offer a reason for saying ‘no’ and offer an alternative.

We believe that children need their energies for trying out new behaviour, not for worrying about past inappropriate behaviour so we will deal with difficult situations as they arise, and not postpone addressing the problem to a later point in time.

We believe that children will begin to realise that adults mean what they say when problems are addressed in a consistent way and will respond positively to requests for behaviour change.

We believe that parents should be informed on the day, of any significant incidents relating to the child’s behaviour.

Safeguarding

The school recognises that changes in behaviour may be an indicator that a pupil is in need of help or protection. We will consider whether a pupil’s misbehaviour may be linked to them suffering, or being likely to suffer, significant harm. Where this may be the case, we will follow our child protection and safeguarding policies.

Behaviour Management Procedure

Introduction
Children need to have set boundaries of behaviour for their own safety and the safety of others.

Aim
We aim to set these boundaries in a way which helps the child to develop a sense of the significance of their own behaviour both on their own environment and those around them taking into consideration the age and stage of development of the children.

Responsibilities
To create calm, caring environment where children are treated with respect.

To ensure consistency, all staff will agree on acceptable and unacceptable behaviour and will share this with parent/carers and children.

To ensure staff will provide positive role models for the children e.g., care courtesy and friendliness.