• Every point counts: all positives and negatives lead to a consequence.​
• Uniform: top to toe uniform, coats off in learning spaces.​
• Equipment: every lesson, every day.​
• Corridors: left is best.​
• Break time: outside if it's dry.​
• Phones: Switched off and in your bag from 8.55am - 3.30pm. As soon as you arrive at school, all devices must be switched off and in your bag, including at break and lunchtimes. You cannot use these devices until you leave school at the end of the day. If we see it or hear it, we will take it.
• Lessons: on time, every time (five lates in a week = detention)​
• Toilets: go during your break, not lessons or changeovers. Key Stage 3 upstairs, everyone else downstairs toilets only. If you need to go during lesson time, you will need your planner and TIP.  No eating or litter in toilets.
• Food to be consumed in the dining room only: No chewing or eating in lessons.​
• Student planner to record homework: out in every lesson.​
• Wet break: All students will be allocated an area of school for wet break times
• Water bottles: Only fill them up during break and lunchtime.
• Bus queues: In lines in the correct place. Year 11 only at the front of school. ​
• Out of bounds is marked by a red line around the field: Students must not cross this boundary.  
• Prohibited items should not be brought into school.

This builds on the rights of all students to learn, the teacher’s right to teach and an environment where everyone is treated with respect and dignity. All members of the school community have a responsibility to ensure that they behave in a way that inhibits any of the above. All members of our community are expected to follow the rules that create the right environment for learning and will adhere to the routines that enable this.

The ‘good behaviour’ procedure requires that all members of our community create and contribute to an environment conducive to learning. When staff are discussing behaviour in class, they will use the language of ‘chance, choice, consequence’ to support the student:

• Chance: a reminder of our expectations
• Choice: an opportunity to choose the correct way to behave
• Consequence: a clear consequence for a student’s choice of behaviour.

On-call is used to collect a student who is not meeting expectations, and they are removed from the learning space. Students will be provided with work to complete and an opportunity to resolve the issue with the member of staff.

As a school, we will look to nurture our students and recognise the positive behaviours that they display. There are a wide range of rewards that staff can use to recognise the behaviour and effort of students. These include:

• Positive mentions/points in the Arbor management information system will lead to a range of rewards
• Positive praise postcards
• Contact home to share positive feedback
• Feedback from head of faculty or the leadership team
• Feedback from the pastoral team
• Assemblies
• End of year awards
• Other informal ways of celebrating the success of students

Behaviour Rewards

Points rewards are awarded annually in Key Stage 3 and cumulatively in Key Stage 4.

Attendance Rewards

There are a range of sanctions depending on the severity of an incident or sequence of incidents. Students who receive more than five negative points in a week may have a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) detention to review their behaviour and develop a plan to stop it from happening again. Students who are regularly late to lessons or have failed to attend faculty detentions may be given an SLT ‘work’ detention. Teaching staff and heads of faculty can also assign detentions for subject-based discrepancies.

We will place a student on a report card following instances of poor behaviour in order to set targets and monitor behaviour. We have three report cards – green, yellow and red. Green report cards are monitored by tutors, yellow report cards are monitored by key stage leaders and red reports by a member of our Senior Leadership Team.

Student support plans are written for students who require a bespoke package of support to ensure that they behave well and make progress at school. These plans are developed with the student and parent/carers to ensure that it meets the individual needs of each student.

Depending on the severity of a behaviour incident, or a series of repeated events, students may be internally suspended – working on their own and prohibited from mixing with peers at break and lunchtime. Students may also be placed in seclusion when serious incidents are being investigated. School will contact home when this is due to occur as soon as is practicable.

For more serious incidents, we may decide to suspend a student from school for a set period of time.

We take great pride in our school uniform at Hope Valley College. It serves not only as a symbol of community, cohesion, and identity, but also promotes a strong sense of belonging and a positive work ethic.