Behaviour and Relationships
At Limes Farm Infant School and Nursery we believe that our school should be a safe, calm and happy environment that promotes respect, a positive learning experience and a sense of belonging.
Our focus is to ensure that all pupils feel safe within the school and develop positive, trusting relationships with all members of the school community and an ethos that displays compassion and kindness.Our behaviour policy is based on understanding, relationships, connection and restoration.
We are a school that has embraced the Essex approach to understanding behaviour and supporting emotional wellbeing known as Trauma Perceptive Practice (TPP).
The programme includes:
- Developing an understanding of how individuals, families and communities can be affected by the relationship between early life stress and trauma.
- Identifying and incorporating new ways of responding helpfully to children and young people by:
- Building consistent, positive and nurturing relationships with the child/young person
- Understanding children and young people’s communicating behaviours and stress responses
- Providing targeted support and appropriate interventions when required
- Developing and using more helpful and supportive language when talking ‘to’ and ‘about’ children and young people’s communicating behaviours.
You can read more about TPP and trauma in the leaflet below and by watching the video about early brain development.
TRAUMA PERCEPTIVE PRACTICE EXPLAINED
All staff at Limes Farm Infant School and Nursery have received Trauma Perceptive Practice (TPP) training. We expect staff to demonstrate the core vales of TPP principles with our pupils.
TPP exists alongside Zones of Regulation which provides children with the language and skills needed to recognise and express their emotions.
The children explore these zones and learn to be able to identify which zone they are in. There are also visuals in every room classroom which are used to support childrens understanding. Sometimes children can’t or don’t want to name the emotion but they can identify which zone they are in.
Children also learn that their feelings and emotions can lead to expected and unexpected behaviours and that those behaviours can have an impact on the children and adults around them.
TPP and Zones of Regulation principles are reflected in our behaviour Policy which you will find below.