Barnett Wood Infant School
Behaviour and Safeguarding Curriculum
Our Behaviour Curriculum:
The Barnett Wood Way
Intent
At Barnett Wood Infant School, we aim to develop excellent standards of behaviour through our ‘Barnett Wood Way’ behaviour curriculum. This curriculum carefully defines the behaviours and habits that we expect pupils to demonstrate, and is underpinned by our five values of Kindness, Respect, Resilience, Trust and Aspiration. We want to support our pupils to grow into adults who are kind, polite and respectful, and who put others before themselves. We believe that as pupils practise these behaviours, over time they become automatic routines that positively shape how they feel about themselves and how other people perceive them. As philosopher Aristotle stated, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
The ‘Barnett Wood Way’ behaviour curriculum is also based on the EEF’s Summary of recommendations in the document, ‘Improving Behaviour in Schools’, which states:
• Consistency and coherence at a whole-school level are paramount
• Behaviour programmes are more likely to have an impact on attainment outcomes if implemented at a whole-school level
Our behaviour curriculum also draws upon guidance from DfE’s ‘Behaviour in Schools’ (January 2022) which states:
• Good behaviour in schools is central to a good education. Creating a culture that promotes excellent behaviour requires a clear vision of what good behaviour looks like.
• A behaviour curriculum defines the expected behaviours in school, rather than only a list of prohibitive behaviour. It should represent the key habits and routines required by the school.
Implementation
The curriculum is taught explicitly during the first week in the autumn term, alongside the traditional National Curriculum subjects. Children should learn the content of the curriculum so that they can recall the information and act upon it. At the start of each term, the ‘Barnett Wood Way’ curriculum is revisited with pupils and will continue to be reinforced throughout the year. As with other curriculum content, this should be taught using explicit teaching and will involve regular retrieval practice to check and strengthen retention. All adults will also demonstrate these behaviours. Adults will need to ensure pupils have time to practise these (particularly in the first few days of term). For example, our relentless routines Fantastic Walking/Lovely Lining Up should be taught in the classroom but must be reinforced in different locations and times throughout the school day e.g. at lunchtime. It is expected that all pupils will know this content.
Adaptations
While this curriculum is for all pupils, it will be applied differently in different year groups depending on pupils’ ages and may be applied differently depending on individual pupils’ SEND needs. Sensitivity must be applied at all times when teaching the curriculum. We need to acknowledge that reaching these high standards of behaviour will be harder for some children than it is for their peers. This doesn’t mean we lower our expectations; it means we scaffold up and help them to succeed. A good scaffold could be considered a ‘reasonable adjustment’. Some of these adjustments can be adapted, or slowly removed over time. Some of them are features of good, inclusive practice, and don’t ever need changing or removing.
Examples of scaffolding for behaviour:
Visual timetables, preparing for change, organisational prompts, over-communicating our expectations, check for understanding, pre-teaching/pre-preparing, exit cards (or similar), time to talk, reward charts, time out at end of session for reward, specific behaviour plan, social stories
Curriculum Overview
Autumn 1
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| Summer 1
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Explicit teaching of the full ‘Barnett Wood Way’ curriculum content
Value of the half term: Kindness | Ongoing revision of content
Value of the half term: Respect | Longer recap of ‘Barnett Wood Way’ curriculum
Value of the half term: Trust | Ongoing revision of content
Value of the half term: Resilience | Longer recap of ‘Barnett Wood Way’ curriculum
Value of the half term: Aspiration | Ongoing revision of content
Consolidation of all values |
NOTE: We do not have class charters or individual class rules. All classes will follow this whole school behaviour curriculum.
Our school rules:
Be Kind | Be Safe | Be Ready |
We show kindness when ….. | We show we are safe when……. | We show we are ready when…….. |
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Our school values:
Kindness | Respect | Resilience | Trust | Aspiration |
We show we are kind when ….. | We show we are respectful when……. | We show we are resilient when…….. | We show we are trustworthy when… | We show we are aspirational when….. |
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Our Relentless Routines:
Wonderful Walking | Lovely Lining Up | Sensible Sitting | Positive Playtimes |
We show this by: | We show this by: | We show this by: | We show this by: |
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