At Thomas Aveling we have the very highest expectations of all involved: Students, Teachers and Parents.  Please scroll down through this section to check out our expectations of attendance, behaviour, our home school agreement, and uniform.  For students to make the very best progress while at the school, it is vital that we all understand our opportunities and responsibilities.

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ATTENDANCE

​Research shows that there is a clear link between high attainment and good attendance in school. Therefore, it is vital that students attend school every day. The school has several support strategies in place to help ensure that all students can achieve their full potential, these include:

 

• Regular monitoring of student attendance and punctuality – morning registration is taken electronically by the form tutor at 8.40am. In addition to this we have electronic registration in all lessons to ensure attendance throughout the day.

• Celebrating good attendance – we celebrate students’ 100% attendance at the end of each academic year.  In previous years we have invited students to enjoy a meal together at a local restaurant or students have received shopping vouchers.

• Actively working to improve attendance – from our regular monitoring of attendance, we can quickly see if there are any causes for concern. If attendance is a cause for concern, then a series of actions are taken. Parents will be informed by text, phone call and/or a letter. Should there continue to be a concern, parents will be invited into school to discuss the issues and, if necessary, the Attendance Advisory Practitioner (AAP) will be informed. Parents and their sons/daughters may be invited to attend an attendance panel where the Senior Attendance Advisory Practitioner will be present. The Attendance Advisory Practitioner will work with parents to help improve their children’s attendance, but they do have the authority to award fixed penalty fines and instigate court proceedings against parents for their children’s non-attendance.

• Actively working to improve punctuality – from our regular monitoring of punctuality, we can quickly see if there are any causes for concern. If students are late then they will have to attend a punctuality detention at breaktime the same day, should they fail to attend, this will be rolled onto the following day; if the breaktime detention is not attended this will then result in a leadership detention after school.

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We will continue to use these strategies and work with students and parents to ensure that students have the best possible opportunities for success.

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The holiday form is no longer available as the Governors have not authorised holiday absence for any student during term time since September 2007. Only in exceptional circumstances will authorised leave be granted. In these circumstances, parents should write directly to the Headteacher.

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Penalty Notices – In line with Local Education Authority practise we must advise parents/carers that a Penalty Notice may be imposed in certain cases where unauthorised holiday leave is taken, or a child has regular unauthorised attendance.

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BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING - CODE OF CONDUCT

​The Behaviour for Learning Code of Conduct is displayed in every classroom and outlines the responsibilities and a consistent pattern of consequences, for a student Thomas Aveling school. This information is displayed in every room, on our school website, in school corridors and in student /parent documentation.

The aim of the Behaviour for Learning Code of Conduct is to build on our successes to date and offering the best possible education for our wonderful students. We want to focus on the behaviours in the classroom and ensure our students give their very best.

BEHAVIOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR SEND STUDENTS
Thomas Aveling's culture consistently promotes high standards of behaviour and provides the necessary support to ensure all pupils can achieve and thrive, both in and out of the classroom.

Our whole-school approach is designed to meet the needs of all students, including those with SEND. The Behaviour Management Arrangements are in place to ensure that every student feels they belong within the school community, while maintaining high expectations for all.

Behaviour will often need to be considered in relation to a pupil’s SEND; however, it does not follow that every incident of misbehaviour is directly linked to their SEND.

Behaviour for Learning Code of Conduct:
Consequences are known, understood and agreed by all. Within a lesson the following graduated responses are applied when a student breaks the Behaviour for Learning Code of Conduct:

Standards
If students receive a Standards log in school, they will receive a break detention for 10 minutes with their Director of Learning. These detentions will be known as a Standards detention. Again, failure to attend will result in escalations. Students are, of course, able to avoid all of this by ensuring that they are focused on task, ready to learn with all the appropriate equipment.

Remind (R1) This is a verbal reminder. By reminding students of expected behaviours, teachers give students a chance to correct themselves without immediate consequences. It's a proactive way to maintain a positive classroom environment and encourages self-regulation.

Reinforce (R2) This is a second reminder and reinforcement can be both positive and negative. Positive reinforcement rewards desirable behaviour, encouraging students to repeat it, while negative reinforcement can help reduce undesirable behaviour This step helps establish good habits and clarify the consequences of actions.

Relocate (R3) Relocating a student via a change to the seating plan, discussion outside the classroom or cooldown can help manage behaviour by removing students who are distracting or disrupting the learning of others. R3 aims to give student a fresh start in a different setting (discussion outside / seating plan / cool down). R3 logs will be logged on Arbor and severity of the log will impact the sanction.

Remove (R4) As a last resort, removing a student from the classroom / cool down area can be necessary if their behaviour continues to disrupt the learning environment despite previous interventions in the classroom. This step is used sparingly and accompanied by a plan to address the underlying issues leading to the behaviour. The student will be brought to the inclusion zone by a Senior member of staff. The incident will be investigated by the pastoral team and a sanction will be determined with the Subject Leader / Pastoral team. Consequences are known, understood and agreed by all.

DEALING WITH MINOR OFFENCES
A negative behaviour log should be entered electronically on Arbor by any member of staff to record a significant incident of ‘unacceptable’ behaviour. It should not be used for ‘general information’. These are visible to parents via the Arbor Parent App or EduLink.

 

INSIDE THE CLASSROOM
All staff are given clear guidance on how to use our procedure for using assertive discipline techniques to manage low level disruption in the classroom. We believe that all lessons should be ‘disruption free’, to enable high quality teaching and learning to take place. Our approach when classroom rules are broken is to apply our 4 R Model.

Reasonable Adjustments
In extreme or particular circumstances our behaviour policy is differentiated to ensure that our more vulnerable students are not discriminated against.

Any differentiation to the application of the behaviour policy will be agreed via consultation with all stakeholders. The final decision will be made by the SLT.
 

OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
Teachers take action themselves and enter a negative Log on Arbor on the day of the incident.

Action could be:

• Verbal warning

• phone call home

• R3/R4 log on Arbor

• Referral to House or Inclusion Team

 

 

DETENTIONS
Detentions will be given to individual students for failing to meet standards, misbehaviour and/or lack of work completed within a lesson. Poor behaviour in a detention will not be tolerated. Students will be asked to leave and this will be escalated to the next level.

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Standards

• All Standards, R3 & R4 logs will be logged on Arbor. The sanction will depend on the severity level of the log.

• Standards break detention: (Break 10 minutes) for standards log.

• Standards lunch detention: (20 minutes) for failure to attend Break detention;

• Late to lessons

• Students who need to lose social time due to poor behaviour at break and lunch.

• Failure to attend these will result in an afterschool detention being set.

Late

• Late to school - 10 minutes Standards Break detention.

• 3rd late in a term = 1 hour Afterschool detention

• 3 consecutive days on time and it resets.

Leadership Detentions

These run for 60 minutes on a Friday afterschool and are for failure to attend detentions, a severe behaviour incident as identified by the House Team or repeated failure to attend detentions. Parents will be informed if a student has a detention 24 hours before the detention is set.

 

ESCALATIONS
The persistent defiance of our behaviour policy will result in the following escalations:

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• Failure to Attend Standards Detention at break (10 minutes) – Lunch Standards detention (20 mins)

• Failure to Attend Standards Detention at Lunch – Afterschool Standards detention (30 mins)

• Failure to Attend Afterschool Standards Detention (30 minutes) - Afterschool detention (60 minutes)

• Failure to attend Afterschool Detention (60 minutes) – Leadership Detention (60 minutes Friday evening) .

• Failure to attend Leadership Detention - 1 Day Inclusion Zone until 4pm

• Failure to pass Inclusion Day - Repeat Inclusion Zone and 1 additional day in Inclusion until 4pm

• Repeated Failure to pass Inclusion Day – Period of suspension​

 

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HOME SCHOOL AGREEMENT: RULES AND STANDARDS

Download: Home School Agreement

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SCHOOL UNIFORM

​We are extremely proud of how smart our students look in their school uniform and will always insist that high standards are maintained.  Parents will be contacted where the uniform code has been infringed without reasonable explanation and children may work with their tutor all day or be sent home to change.  We appreciate the support from our parents in this matter.

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GIRLS' UNIFORM

​Blazer - Black with *School Badge (edged with house colour)

Skirt - Skirts must be tailored and made of ‘non stretch’ fabric to allow movement and should be no more than 3-4” above the knee (no short or tight skirts will be permitted)

Trousers - Trousers must be tailored and made of ‘non stretch’ fabric (no flares or tight fitting trousers will be permitted)

Blouse - *White with blue pin stripe – short sleeve, worn in or out (no tie required). Whilst we prefer the girls to wear the white blouse with blue pin stripe (as specified above), they are permitted to wear a white shirt with a Thomas Aveling school tie, if they prefer.

Sweater (optional) - *Blue V-necked with embroidered school logo

Shoes - Black school shoes (no platforms, high Heels or open backs, and strictly no boots or trainers of any descriptioSocks

White or black, or plain natural/black tights (no patterns).

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* Available from Schooltime Uniform Shop, Railway Street, Chatham, Blazers with pre-sewn badges also available. Parents may purchase blazers from any retail outlet, but badges are only available from Schooltime.

 

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BOYS' UNIFORM

​Blazer - Black with *School Badge (edged with house colour)

Trousers - Tailored black -  made of 'non stretch' material
Shirt - Plain White, short or long sleeved, suitable for wearing with a tie
Tie - *Blue and gold diagonal stripe
Sweater (optional) - *Blue V-necked with embroidered school logo
Shoes - Formal black leather, or leather-look, school shoes (strictly no boots or trainers of any description, no high heels or open backs)
Socks - Black

Summer Term - Those who have worn the white shirt and tie may choose to wear a *Blue Polo Shirt with school logo as an alternative to collar and tie. A blazer must still be worn.

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 * Available from Schooltime Uniform Shop, Railway Street, Chatham. Blazers with pre-sewn badges also available. Parents may purchase blazers from any retail outlet, but badges are only available from Schooltime.

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Uniform basics:

• No long, false or painted nails should be worn in school

• Make up should be discreet in Year 9 and above and not worn at all in Years 7 and 8

• Hair should be a natural colour, all one colour and all one style – it should also be a minimum length of a grade 2. No extreme styles allowed

• Jewellery - only a small pair of studs (one earring in each ear lobe) and a watch are allowed. No other piercings, rings, bracelets/bands or necklaces to be worn

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Please click on this link to see what is not acceptable uniform.

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PE KIT 

Shorts /Skort - Navy and Royal Blue
Polo Shirt - Navy and Royal Blue
Sweatshirt - Navy and Royal Blue (Optional) 
Training Joggers - Navy Blue (Optional)
Trainers - Non Marking soles
Football boots - Optional
Football Socks - Navy Blue
Shin Pads

 

The PE kit is only available at School Time Uniform Shop