Staff strike over pupil violence at ‘outstanding’ school with Pivotal behaviour policy

[noblegiraffe]

This story is appalling, pupils running wild, organised fights and knife crime. Teaching staff are now on strike over concerns for their safety.

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/teachers-strike-outside-outstanding-school-16492073

“The school uses a system called Pivotal Education, which was founded in 2001 to improve behaviour training for teachers, but this approach is not favoured by union reps as they do not feel it brings about adequate action.”

There have been lots of threads recently about banning isolation booths and criticism of strict schools. Parents should be aware that the ‘banthebooths’ campaign was set up by Paul Dix who was involved in setting up Pivotal (but isn’t currently involved) and who has a book out, podcasts, speaking tours and makes his money from recommending the sort of behaviour policy Pivotal sells.

The NASUWT are very concerned about the spread of these ‘restorative’ approaches, that they lead to teachers being blamed for poor behaviour and are ineffective.

So when you see threads about strict schools and think ‘how awful’, also think about the school in the above story, and think about whether you would send your kid there, and how you would deal with that behaviour.

@CaptainBrickbeard it's always the way. Awful Alfie manages not to call the teacher a cunt for a lesson and gets rewarded whilst Try Hard Tina works her socks off and gets nothing.

The problem is poor management.

The school i work in have recently (this year) put into action new Behaviour policy's and uniform policy's.

Unfortunatly many of the SLT members turn a blind eye to uniform issues.

Just last week, I watches the headteacher chatting to 6 boys at lunchtime, chatting away. All 6 had shirts tucked, no blazer and headphones in. Yet the Policy states that shirts are tucked in, blazers are on and no electronic devices to be used / on show during the day.

Did he mention their uniform? Nope. So what hope do us teachers have in enforcing the policy if the highest member of SLT blatantly ignores it?

I do give up sometimes.