Page 118 - EY Teacher's Handbook 2024-2025

Behaviour Expectations

All teachers should meet and discuss this as a unit. This ensures consistency across the classes and
will also provide support to teachers where children’s challenging behaviour pushes the boundaries.
• Children are not to be left alone in the classroom or in the hallway

• Children are not to be sent out of the classroom alone
• Children are not to be put in a position that is unsafe
Please
Please see our Supporting our Children policy on how to keep children safe from themselves and
others.

Class Routine
Class routine and simple rules help students to elude distractions that waste time and interfere
with learning. Guesswork is minimised. Minor frustrations and inconveniences are fewer, as are

opportunities for misbehaviour. The children, then, are left to focus on learning.

If children know what to do and how to do it during every transitional or procedural moment of
If children know what to do and how to do it during every transitional or procedural moment of
the school day, they can more easily attend to what is most important. Furthermore, adding more
responsibility and purpose encourages self-confidence.

For everything children do in school repetitively, there should be a routine. This will include
For
attendance, carpet time, eating transitions, lining up and entering classrooms, and Centre rotations.

In our case at EPG, where the children move from one classroom to another, it is essential that
children, teachers, and even other staff have a timeframe and schedule to follow. Sample timetable
is shown below for FSL, FS1, and FS2.

BEHAVIOUR MANAGEMENT/PASTORAL

Star of the Week (SOTW)

This year our Star of the Week will have a different focus. The EPG Values will be included in the
This
child’s recognition. Each teacher will be responsible for one class in terms of SOTW There will be
schedule for each child to be the SOTW and this will be sent home so parents are aware when their
child will be recognised at the SOTW.