Revised Code of Behaviour 2024

Revised Draft Code of Behaviour.  We are currently revising our Code of Behaviour in order to ensure it reflects best practice in 2024. The code of behaviour is the set of programmes, practices and procedures that together form the school’s plan for helping pupils in the school to behave well and learn well. The code of behaviour helps the school community to promote the school ethos, relationships, policies, procedures and practices that encourage good behaviour and prevent unacceptable behaviour. The code of behaviour helps teachers, other members of staff, pupils and parents to work together for a happy, effective and safe school. The code expresses the vision, mission and values of the school and it’s Patron. It translates the expectations of staff, parents and students into practical arrangements that will help to ensure continuity of instruction to all students. It helps to foster an orderly, harmonious school where high standards of behaviour are expected and supported. The code of behaviour enables school authorities to strike an appropriate balance between their duty to maintain an effective learning environment for all and their responsibility to students whose behaviour presents a challenge to the teaching and learning process. The code of behaviour is a key tool in enabling the school authorities to support the learning of every student in the school. Maintaining a harmonious environment can present a challenge to schools, given competing needs, time pressures and varying capacities or readiness to learn. A code of behaviour that has the support of the school community can go a long way to helping schools to meet this challenge successfully.

Our draft code is available to view on our school’s website.  We welcome your views and comments on it as parents to rmacnam12@gmail.com .