The impact of a whole-school approach to improve out-of-class behaviour

School profile
Type: Comprehensive
Age range: 11-18
Location: Great Barr – private housing
Number of pupils: 1100
Pupils entitled to FSM: 14%
Other: mutli-cultural intake - 19% have English as an additional language

Key factors that motivated the intervention

• The behaviour and attendance audit indicated concerns regarding out of class behaviour
• Relatively high numbers of fixed term exclusions
• Increasing number of incidents of poor punctuality to lessons
• The negative impact of out of class behaviour on teaching and learning Concerning incidents of post-registration truancy