Wessex Learning Trust
Student Life Behaviour & Rewards
Pupils at Nailsea School demonstrate a high level of responsibility and are expected to respect all others in our community and beyond. Rewards and sanctions are awarded in line with the school’s Behaviour Policy. In lessons, teachers will follow the school’s C (consequences system) as outlined in our Behaviour policy.
Our Behaviour and Rewards Policy can be found by following the link to out ‘Policies Page’ below.
To help our students understand the expectations surrounding behaviour we wanted to be clear with these helpful guidelines.
Lesson Routines & Expected Behaviours
Social Time Routines
Morning Routines
Rewards for All
Exam Routines
Pupil achievement is recognised in a variety of ways throughout the year. For day to day achievements, contribution and effort in classwork and homework, teachers and tutors can issue house points. Teachers will also send postcards home for pupils’ positive contributions towards their work in a subject or towards the whole school.
Curriculum Leaders, Heads of House and the Senior Leadership Team can also award pupils positive behaviour points for making a significant contribution to school or community life. Individual departments may also run systems of reward and recognition, including postcards home or contribution in sports activities.
In this way, achievement, progress, and making a contribution to the school or wider community are seen to be valued and at the heart of school life. They are also within the reach of every pupil and motivate each to give of their best.
We expect to reward:
Lateness to school: pupils who are late to school without a valid reason will receive a detention at break time on the same day.
Missed detentions: If a refocus detention is missed, the sanction is escalated to detentions across break, lunch and after school the following day. If this is missed this is escalated to an Internal Reflection session, which is 2 lessons and a social time.
Failure to complete homework: this will firstly be recorded as a ‘missed deadline’ and is applicable at KS4. This results in a refocus detention where there is opportunity to complete the homework. Homework submission is regularly monitored and students that regularly fail to submit homework will be referred to Homework Club.
Uniform / Hair / Jewellery / Make-up and Nail varnish: these will be dealt with as per our uniform expectations
Mobile Phones: these will be confiscated if seen in use during the school day and will need to be collected at the end of the school day. No phones are seen whilst in the school grounds. If any student persists in using a phone parents will be asked to collect the confiscated item.
Lateness to school: pupils who are late to school without a valid reason will receive a detention. This will be issued by the Head of House.
Missed detentions: If a 20-minute detention is missed, the sanction is escalated to a 30-minute detention. If this is missed this is escalated to a C5 detention for 90 minutes. If this is missed without a valid reason an Internal Exclusion will be served on the following day.
Failure to complete homework: this will firstly be recorded as a ‘No Homework’. The second time a piece is not submitted for a subject area the department will issued a detention. Homework submission is regularly monitored and students that regularly fail to submit homework will be referred to Homework Club.
Mobile Phones: these will be confiscated if seen in use during the school day and will need to be collected at the end of the school day. If any student persists in using a phone parents will be asked to collect the confiscated item.
At Nailsea each pupil and staff member belongs to a House and competes throughout the year to win the House Championship.
Students can win House points for positive behaviour, excellent classwork, contributions to the school community and winning House competitions. Students can also lose House points for negative behaviour such as homework referrals, lateness to school and detentions.
The House who finishes the year with the highest number of House points is rewarded with the House Cup and a day of celebration for pupils and staff at the end of the Summer term.