Supporting good behaviour
Headteachers and school leaders need confidence and skills to ensure a safe and secure learning environment for children and staff - and we can offer them a great deal in terms of training and ongoing support.
Sir Alan Steer’s report to the Secretary of State earlier this year - Learning behaviour: lessons learned - highlighted the great progress schools are making in engaging with some of the most hard to reach young people.
There are good examples of how some schools are tackling issues that can give rise to poor behaviour:
- managing the transition from primary to secondary school
- shifting the school timetables to enable long morning teaching periods and short afternoon sessions
- working with local police to promote safe learning environments
- engaging parents with named members of staff in order to reduce pupil absences
All this works best when schools have effective partnerships with parents and other agencies to tackle the small proportion of poor behaviour in our schools.
Everything we do is focused on supporting leaders to provide children and young people with the best teaching and learning possible. Behaviour is good in the vast majority of our schools but middle leaders who feel that behaviour is a challenge can elect to undertake a module as part of our provision focused entirely on managing behaviour.
National leaders of education (NLEs) may also focus on behaviour when they are supporting schools in challenging circumstances. They are very much encouraged to focus on five factors – behaviour, curriculum, teaching and learning, leadership and management and school environment.
The National College will continue to support both school and children’s services leaders through a wide range of professional development opportunities that reflect their needs in different contexts and at each stage of their career.
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