Behaviour out of control

[runlikeagirl]

In my classroom and whole school. It feels like the behaviour is getting out of control. I've been teaching for 10yrs and been at this school a while.

Recently I've been assaulted (not seriously) a member of my dept was shouted at in the face, I've been shouted at aggressively my older students. Pupils are rude and argue when challenged, it feel like a constant battle to ask them follow basic rules (uniform).

This feeling is shared by other staff. We just don't feel supported, there don't seem to be enough or the right consequences for behaviour.

Is there a way of saying this to SLT that doesn't sound like either whinging or blaming?

Talk to your union rep. You won't be alone.

Thanks I will contact union tomorrow.

What is the behaviour policy? In my school, arguing with a teacher - ie when given a sanction - results in a school detention (30 mins), swearing or verbal assault is at least a day in internal exclusion, obviously more if more serious. Consequently, although behaviour isn't great, it is mostly confined to a direct breach of a rule eg unifom, rather than escalating to the next stage, so kid gets a yellow card for having his shirt out, but then tucks it in, rather than argue about it.. Of course DC do sometimes argue etc, but it is rarer, and because everyone knows the sanction, they will often apologise, and in my case if they immediately apologise the sanction is minimal as I am more concerned with them learning to apologise when in the wrong rather than punishing them to make a point..

In terms of logging - do you log on SIMS? Bit of a pain, but I always do as there is then a record when you phone the parents. Do you phone the parents? Effective tool at your disposal!

We have sleuth to log behaviour and sanctions. I log everything. I phone parents and set detentions. There is nothing in the policy about arguing with staff, there is being rude to staff. But the policy says to refer that upwards, but nothing happens

I spoke to union today, I'm going to try and get a few staff who feel the same to meet.

Phoning parents is only about 50% effective as some parents aren't very supportive of school.

I've been punched in the face this past half term and kicked in the thigh. Accident reports written of course but sod all done about it.