Behaviour and Expectations
At Chiltern Academy our vision is to Inspire Minds and Build Futures. We do this through our Chiltern Champion Ethos:
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Determination: GIVE 100%
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Resilience: EMBRACE MISTAKES AS PART OF LEARNING
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Aspirational: PRODUCE THEIR BEST POSSIBLE WORK
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Respectful: ARE KIND AND WELL MANNERED
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Independence: CARRY THEIR TOOLS FOR LEARNING
We work in partnership with our students, staff, parents and our community to ensure our students make excellent progress and demonstrate outstanding behaviour for learning.
We hold our students to high standards, instilling our Chiltern Champion Ethos from the first day they enter the building. Our teachers invest time in building meaningful connections with their students, cultivating a positive and impactful learning environment throughout the school.
Behaviour is monitored on Epraise through our ‘Steps to Success’ programme. Students will receive a grade for ‘outstanding’ or ‘good’ work effort but will also be challenged for ‘poor’ or ‘unsatisfactory’ behaviour. We pride ourselves on our engaging and purposeful lessons, ensuring students are not ‘passive’ in lessons, recognising this in our steps to success structure. This information is instrumental in the feedback students receive from tutors and head of year who will reward positive behaviour.
Positive behaviour is role modelled daily through interactions with staff and students. We take the time to teach students about positive learning behaviours as well as teaching them routines, taught through our bespoke Behaviour Curriculum - Chiltern Champion Conduct. This is delivered in form time across year groups, ensuring standards and expectations are consistent across the school. This equips the students with the tools they will need to operate as functioning members of society when they leave school.
At Chiltern Academy we promote an ethos of good behaviour through regular praise and rewards. We believe that celebrating successes and normalising good behaviour is a great motivational tool to create the positive learning environment we achieve. We use Epraise to recognise our students' success and students can purchase items from the online Epraise shop with their achievement points.
While we reward good behaviour, we will challenge and sanction poor behaviour. We take time to explain sanctions to students and facilitate restorative conversations to enable students to move on in a positive manner with their learning. We pride ourselves on parental engagement, ensuring we have a triangulated approach to correcting students behaviour in partnership with parents and staff.
For further details about behaviour for learning at Chiltern Academy, please refer to our behaviour policy below.
