[senco-forum] downward spiral in school behaviour, primary

challenging behaviour. We have a whole school behaviour policy which uses

Does your LA Pupil Support Service have a Primary Behaviour Support Team?

If school policy and other strategies, including IBPs, have been used but
further support is needed, referral can be made to ours for children such
as those you describe to be observed or assessed by a member of the team. 
This results in either suggestions of further strategies to be used, or
physical support from a member of the team, which varies in length and
frequency according to perceived need.  All of this also involves the
parents, so that there is consistency and reinforcement of actions and
consequences in school and at home.

Meanwhile, the possibility of "internal exclusion" has been dealt with on
the forum in the past, mostly at secondary level.  As a primary school, we
have used this, in that a child was excluded from the classroom for 1 or 2
days, but still expected to be in school and worked near to the Head (or
secretary if the head had a visitor).

I know from experience how the behaviour of one or two can have an impact
on what others think they can get away with and just how difficult it can
be to make any headway unless you have parental support.

Regards

Jean

Our school has always had a number of children with quite severe BESD and
> challenging behaviour. We have a whole school behaviour policy which uses
> a stepped approach and classes have their own variants on golden time.
> Those few children (several with statements) for whom this is
> inappropriate have additional reward strategies and small group/1:1 work.
> Despite this, at times these few display more extreme behaviours, such as
> running out of school, climbing trees, swearing at staff, refusing to come
> off the playground, repeatedly attacking other children. Various agencies
> are involved and each child has an IEP and strategies in place to manage
> as best we can in a mainstream context. Unfortunately we have increasingly
> occasion to resort to short term exclusions. We have instigated a short
> period (11/2 hours of working with a member of SMT on return from an
> exclusion to try and reduce the "Hey look at me , I had the day off
> yesterday" syndrome
> However in recent weeks the extreme behaviour of these few seems to be
> impacting more on each other and on the next group down (all of whom have
> BESD, but previously have not displayed such extreme behaviour)
> One child summed it up today. "No I'm not ***** going to, and you cant
> make me, all you can do is send me home, and then I can play on my play
> station, so *** you"
> I can see a worrying downward spiral......any ideas you wise people at
> there?
> Kate
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