THERAPEUTIC BEHAVIOUR APPROACH
Our Therapeutic Approach
We use a proactive therapeutic approach to support pupils to have empathy, be resilient and make good choices. We teach them how to stay safe, problem solve and be confident to speak up and ultimately to be happy.
We want our children to have intrinsic morals and values, having an understanding of the world in which they live, being a positive member of society and making the right choices for the right reasons. Our whole school behaviour culture centres around this philosophy.
"One parent's comments are reflective of many, 'The school has a real family and community feel and strives at every opportunity to be inclusive and understanding.'" OFSTED 2024
How our Behaviour Strategy works
At Long Lane we are passionate about children (and staff) doing the right thing for the right reasons (even when noone is looking) not because they are led by fear but because they understand the impact of their words and actions on others and how to cooperate in society being a good role model and an upstander.
Leading with empathy and understanding of all children's needs and starting points, we want to ensure that children not only are heard but also that they feel heard. We do this by ensuring that we spend the time to tackle any conflict or bullying behaviours before they become an issue. We use tools to encourage reflective and honest conversation and this is mediated by adults until pupils can do this independently.
By listening to children and resolving issues immediately, through modelling empathetic and calm conversation where all parties can be heard, we ensure that children are able to feel safe and supported in school.
There are 4 stages of behaviour that we use to support our identification of behaviour and these are also interconnected. We talk to the children about safe and unsafe behaviours (whether these are physical or emotional). We talk through the 4 stages of behaviour with the children so that they understand the impact of their behaviour on others and can help understand the appropriate consequence.
Our staff are trained to identify triggers to behaviours and at Long Lane we ensure that reasonable adjustments and preventative support is put in place to support behavioural need. We are aware of ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and take a trauma informed approach to analysing and supporting these behaviours.
Our Therapeutic Approach to Conflict Resolution
We use a number of visual tools with the children in order to explain and support conflict resolution.
Leading with empathy and listening to all parties, we are able to facilitate valuable learning that children can grow from which in turn ensures they have empathy and understanding of others.
This includes supporting children with Therapeutic workshops and assemblies.
Please see these tools below...
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Parent tools for home and supporting school
We understand that it can be worrying when your child is experiencing conflict at school and how difficult it is to try to resolve issues that have happened in school when children come home (as you are working with one perspective). We encourage children to share their concerns with us immediately if something has happened so that we can deal with them straight away. We rely on parents to share with us worries that the children have if they have not shared these in school.
Our pledge to you is that we will take the time to resolve any issues within the day where possible and ensure that the time is taken to support both victims and perpetrators in order to prevent repeated behaviour. Please ask how we have resolved and how you can support this at home.
We share our knowledge of this approach with our parents regularly through communications and a Therapeutic workshop for parents. Please see the below parents workshop tools.
