Leys Primary School

We are a busy but friendly school, with a lot going on. This website aims to give you a taster of the school, as well as providing up to date information for parents, pupils and the wider community.

Excellent standards of behaviour are key features of our successful school; they encourage children’s sense of security and well-being as well as facilitate effective teaching and learning and enable children to make the best possible progress in all aspects of their school life.

We base our Behaviour and Anti-Bullying Policy upon a clear set of principles and values with every member of the school community agreeing what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour and what the consequences of that behaviour will be.

Good behaviour is expected, and praised at all times.  It is our aim that children develop self-discipline, and they must be in no doubt there is a strict framework of control supporting our positive approach.  All pupils, parents, staff and visitors to school MUST understand there is a heightened need for good behaviour as we all manage the health and safety requirements to assuage the risks of the Coronavirus pandemic for the school community.

Children learn best when they feel secure are respected and trusted.  Each child has an entitlement to learning experiences (pastoral and academic) which offer the maximum opportunity for development.

Our ambitious and broad curriculum promotes the well-being of all the children in our care and determines to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of not only their current and subsequent key stage, but with a long view of adult life to come, by insisting upon mutually respectful, equitable, progressively positive, learning behaviours.

Children are required to demonstrate excellent behaviours for learning in order to gain the maximum from the Contextualised Curriculum and catch-up with work they have, through not fault of their own, missed due to the restrictions of Coronavirus.

We recognise that good learning behaviour is far more than compliance.  Good learning behaviours include high levels of engagement and focus, and long term personal development in line with our personal development goals of Resilience, Aspiration, Morality, Co-operation, Adaptability and Respect. During September and ongoing, children will be reminded what good learning behaviours look like and praised for trying to use them on a regular basis.

To embed this effort, our PSHE curriculum (which uses resources accredited by the PSHE Association) underpins the teaching of positive behaviour across the school community.