De Bohun Way
Behaviour at De Bohun – The De Bohun Way
At De Bohun we strive to provide a caring ethos where everyone in the school community feels safe, confident, valued and respected. The primary aim of The De Bohun Way is to promote good relationships so that everyone can work together to support learning through a positive behaviour management approach. This approach provides a means of promoting good relationships, so that children and staff can work together with the common purpose of helping everyone to learn. We speak calmly and respectfully to the children, modelling how we would like them to speak with us and others.
At times, children can struggle to follow the De Bohun Way so we use Reflection Forms to support a two-way dialogue between adult and child to understand the impact of their actions. They will then come to an agreement as to how to make amends for their actions.
The De Bohun Way
We follow instructions
We listen and speak respectfully
We work hard and try our best
We keep our hands and feet to ourselves
We respect people and property
The De Bohun Way for EYFS and the Provision for Complex Needs
Kind actions
Kind words
Good listening
Ticks and Merits
We also use a merit system to promote excellent behaviour and a positive work ethos.
Merits and ticks are part of our reward system to encourage pupils to utilise their full efforts in all areas of the curriculum and aspects of school life. They support the De Bohun Way by encouraging pupils to follow our rules.
Pupils can earn merits and ticks from any member of school staff in two ways:
- They can earn a whole merit for outstanding behaviour, behaviour for learning and learning outcomes or
- They can collect ticks to earn a whole
Pupils will start at bronze level and continue to silver, gold and platinum. All classrooms from Reception to Y6 have the pupils’ merit cards on display. Pupil names will move to the next level on the display board once their card is completed. Staff ensure that efforts are made that no child goes without having recognition of their achievements.
The De Bohun Child
All children who attend De Bohun Primary school are the De Bohun Child.
The De Bohun Primary School Council were tasked to research what six qualities the children leaving Year 6 would take on with them to Secondary school and beyond. All children in the school were given the opportunity to contribute with the 6 top qualities being used as inspiration for our De Bohun Child poster.
This poster has pride of place as you enter our school. Please ask our children who the ‘De Bohun Child’ is.
