Student Welfare

A key part of our Student Welfare and Good Discipline Policy is the Restorative Practice Framework.

Restorative Practice;

• uses an explicit framework designed to re-establish significant relationships following behavioural incidents.
• seeks to ensure that the consequences for misbehaviour have relevance and meaning within the school community context.
• fosters individual responsibility and helps develop empathy.

The success of this framework depends on the ability of teachers, students and parents to engage with one another in restorative ways.

Restorative Questions I - When things go wrong

• What happened?
• What were you thinking at the time?
• What have you thought about since?
• Who has been affected by what you have done? In what way?
• What do you need to do to make things right?

Restorative Questions II - When someone has been hurt

• What did you think when you realised what had happened?
• What impact has this incident had on you and others?
• What has been the hardest thing for you?
• What do you think needs to happen to make things right?