In line with the Primary School, we promote positive behaviour in our setting with the expectation that children are safe, respectful and ready to learn. This is achieved through promoting positive relationships and understanding distressed behaviour.

Our expectations:

• • • • Use your walking feet in nursery and in the school
      • Kind feet and hands
      • Use kind words

Procedures we follow to promote Positive Behaviour

If a child has an outburst we will:

• • • • Divert the child’s attention
      • Ignore as much as possible
      • When necessary, use ‘thinking time’ with an adult
      • Offer comfort and reassurance when the angry outburst has subsided

If there is physical contact that is unwelcome we will:

• • • • Intervene to support safe and respectful behaviour
      • Remind child/children involved that we stay safe and use kind hands and feet
      • Support children to find acceptable ways to communicate our feelings towards others

To help children restore relationships we will:

• • Observe the situation
  • Act as a mediator
  • Encourage children concerned to resolve the conflict themselves using the St Mary’s nursery script: ‘Please stop, I don’t like that’
  • Acknowledge the resolution
  • If children are unable to resolve a situation themselves, staff will suggest ways in which the conflict may be resolved and encourage the children to choose the resolution which is fairest to all involved

We will consistently offer calm adult behaviour that models this guidance/practice.