At The Trinity Catholic School, we believe positive behaviour is important for the Common Good of our school environment, as it allows all students the opportunity to learn and thrive at school.
We have clear expectations and guidelines for all our students that are outlined in our School Behaviour Policy.
The starting point for any Behaviour queries is the pastoral support team for each year group.
The Progress Co-Ordinators and Assistant Progress Co-Ordinators, with the support of SLT, monitor all student behaviour and offer a range of supportive strategies to help children and families in this area.
These include:
These give students struggling to regulate their behaviour using smart targets to follow throughout the school day and are monitored daily by pastoral team and family. These allow students the opportunity to better understand what they need to work on and also celebrate their successes in a direct and purposeful way.
This 6/8 week programme is a series of sessions with the family, student and support team to enable a more collaborative, child-centred approach to understanding the student’s behaviours and choices and to assist them in refocusing on their achievement and goals.
Throughout the school year there are a range of opportunities for all students to be recognised for positive, ongoing or improved behaviour. These take place within lessons, form time, assemblies and whole school events.
A key member of pastoral staff will support 1:1 to check in on how things are, offer support, and ensure positive reinforcement of good behavioural choices. This can help things be resolved and also stop negative feelings building up. These check-ins could be fortnightly, weekly or more often and normally will happen in form time.
If you feel like yourself or your child would benefit from some support in this way please contact the pastoral team via emails or by calling the school number: 0115 9296251/2
For those students who find regulating their behaviour more challenging, there are further support opportunities available via the Elim Support Pathway.
The Elim Support Team are Ms Ridgley and Mrs Illet who are based in Elim Centre on Beechdale site and run different interventions to help students understand, moderate and manage their behaviour.
These interventions include:
This is an 8-session programme 1:1 with a member of the Elim team that allows students to identify and explore their behaviour choices and work through different strategies to help them manage these.
Often poor behaviour choices, especially negative reactions to peers and staff, go hand in hand with reduced understanding of emotions of yourself and others. This 8 session programme 1:1 with a member of the Elim team works on developing students’ emotional literacy and giving them the tools to manage their own responses and recognise those of others around them.
This is a 5-session programme 1:1 with a member of the Elim team to further understand anger, where it comes from and the different ways we experience it. Through this work the students can come up with a plan to manage their anger more successfully and avoid any further reactivity or loss of control of their emotions.
Not all behaviour is loud and angry, some of the most challenging behaviour is silent and resistant. This can come across as rude or that someone is not bothered, when more often than not it is routed in a lack of confidence and self-esteem. This 4-session programme 1:1 with a member of the Elim Team works on helping students to reflect on their own positives and help build them up to be proud, engaged and invested in their own achievements.
The Elim Support Programme enables a student to work directly with the Elim staff and explore their options for support around their behaviour. It puts the student at the centre and works to create a clear pathway for them and gain their wishes and feelings to be shared with other staff.
Some students benefit from more frequent contact with staff and a member of the Elim Team will support 1:1 to check in on how things are, offer support, and ensure positive reinforcement of good behavioural choices. This can help things be resolved and also stop negative feelings building up. These check-ins could be fortnightly, weekly or more often and normally will happen in form time.
In some rare situations, students may need a break in their routine to disrupt negative patterns of behaviour or to pause for restorative work within a lesson, peer or staff member. Elim support area can be accessed if agreed for short-term lesson removal to allow space for this to happen supported by the team, whilst also ensuring they are provided with any work missed in lessons to complete.
To request further information about these sessions or ask for a referral to access them, please contact the progress coordinator or member of the pastoral team.
At The Trinity Catholic School we aim to deal with all bullying. Our Anti Bullying Policy outlines the ways in which we try to combat this within Trinity.
We use the STOP approach with all our students – Several Times On Purpose and Start Telling Other People.
If you or someone you know is being bullied please tell someone at school. If you struggle to know how to do this, then you could use the Reach Out button.
For some students, managing their behaviour may require further assessment and support from other areas or agencies.
The behaviour team will always support referrals to these services including:
The SEND team within school are based in Emmaus Centre and the school SENCO is Mrs Latimer.
Nottingham City have an educational Behaviour Support team that the school can refer to to gain additional support. For more information VISIT HERE
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Mental Health Pathways Link
