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The overarching aim of our behaviour policy is to promote positive behaviour, to ensure our students grow into safe, respectful and responsible citizens and to allow them to learn in a calm environment.

Behaviour policy on our main website (Information>policies)

Behaviour

    • Permanent exclusion will be issued for eg setting off the fire alarm on purpose, serious assault, offensive weapon, assaulting a member of staff, persistent defiance

    • Mobile Phones and any electronic devices. If a student chooses to bring one it is at their risk. Turned off before the gate and kept in their bag – if this is seen or goes off it will be confiscated and a parent/carer will need to collect this from the academy. Smart watches are not allowed on site. Switch off and put away.

Consequences will be issued for:

    • Late to school – detention will be issued

    • Reasonable request – Senior member of staff, including walking away from a member of SLT

    • Swearing at any member of staff

    • Repeated verbal abuse will become permanent exclusion

    • Jewellery – No jewellery at all except for a normal watch (media type watches are not permitted) – remove piercings, rings etc, no nail varnish or fake nails etc

    • Make-up – discrete, no fake eye lashes

    • Hair – natural colour, no inappropriate patterns shaved into hair

    • Late to lessons – Internal truancy – consequences issued

    • Drugs – fixed term / permanent exclusion

(Please note this list is not exhaustive and the Principal always has discretion)


Home Academy Agreement

Where to find our policies?

Go to our main Outwood Academy Freeston Website

Smoking is against the law

It is now against the law to smoke in virtually all ‘enclosed’ and ‘substantially enclosed’ public places and workplaces. Public transport and vehicles used by more than one person must be smoke free at all times. The Academy will not tolerate students breaking this law, we also operate a ‘smoking by association’ policy – this means that anyone found with a smoker is punished as well as the smoker. Tobacco, lighters, matches and e-cigarettes must not be brought into the Academy.


Representing the Academy

The recent Department of Education publication ‘Behaviour and Discipline in Schools’ states that the Academy has the right to discipline students even when they are not physically on the premises. Students should expect an appropriate sanction if they misbehave in the community while wearing the Academy’s uniform or behave in any way which could adversely affect the reputation of the school.

Please refer to the school website for the most up to date version of the Behaviour Policy.