Discipline policy

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I wonder if anyone could comment on the discipline policy at my child's school and/or offer their experiences please? This is KS2

My child's school have done away with afternoon playtimes Monday - Thursday, but have an extended playtime on a Friday where they can choose what activity they take part in. During the week, they operate a yellow and red card policy for bad behaviour - yellow means your Friday break is reduced by a specified amount of time and red means you cannot take part in Friday playtime. Children are allowed to "earn back" their Friday privileges during the week if their behaviour improves (I don't know if their behaviour has to exceed expectations, or simply come up to the normal standards expected from the rest of the children).
There are some children who are very disruptive and repeat offenders. They do not seem to be improving, earning multiple yellow and red cards a week (and day!!!!)
Is this a usual discipline policy? I have no background in education, however I think that a) a consequence on Friday (which may or may not actually come to fruition) is too far ahead, especially at the beginning of the week and that the consequence needs to come as soon after the behaviour as possible and
b) The children ought to have a break every afternoon to run off steam and go to the toilet. Surely adding the breaks up to equal one break on Friday results in a net loss to lesson time, as the learning time will be disrupted by toilet breaks which would normally happen at playtime?
Thanks for reading

I meant to add that I’ve just refreshed my memory on the Behaviour and Discipline policy of the junior school where I was a governor. They have yellow warning followed by amber followed by red. Amber could mean loss of break time or lunch play. Amber can be a first offence or accumulation of yellow warnings. So it’s similar to your school. Children can be asked to leave a classroom and taken to the Head. Some children just find consistent good behaviour difficult. They need more input than a behaviour policy and the school should be doing something about that and addressing their needs.

I expect you will get a lot of different views on this. I don't really have an opinion about the need for an afternoon break.

But I do know the head teacher (where I work in admin) stopped the golden time on a Friday afternoon system and the associate losing access to golden time / earning it back. It was very controversial with parents at the time as they liked the idea of golden time. But the thing she introduced was better and behaviour is much better in the school now.

No Golden time where I was a governor either. Golden rules though. Many schools use this model. The policy also mentions intervenes to help DC who find abiding by the Golden rules difficult. In all the time I was a governor I cannot remember an exclusion. The policy should focus on rewards and most children like this approach.

Lots of schools use or have used golden time.
Some schools use a different name.
Some schools use it as a reward for the class, ie highest termly attendance, most house points or stickers/awards/points on a particular focus.

It depends on the school, where they are with their behaviour provision, where they want to be, what has been tried and what works for those children.