1. Departmental Behaviour Policy
Computing

2. Rules in a Computing Room
On arrival:
Queue quietly and sensibly in single-file outside the room
Make sure your uniform is perfect before you enter the room
Enter the room when asked quietly & sensibly
Bags to be put neatly under the table
If there is a starter activity on the whiteboard then do it

3. Rules in a Computing Room
During the lesson
If the teacher starts talking turn off monitors and listen in silence
Do not go ‘off-task’. This includes:
Games
Taking out phones unless the lesson requires it
Listening to music unless the lesson requires it
Work that is not what you have been told to do
Do not attempt to get around the school’s ICT policy
Keep hands and feet to yourself
Do not touch anyone else’s computer
Do not touch the cables / ports of any computer
Do not plug anything into the computers unless you have permission
No eating or drinking anywhere in the room
Work quietly and sensibly
Do not get out of your seat unless asked to do so
No intolerant or offensive comments of any kind

4. Rules in a Computing Room
On leaving:
Save all work and log off your computer
Put your chair neatly under the table
Stand quietly and sensibly behind your computer
Make sure you have all bags, memory-sticks etc.
Make sure your uniform is perfect
Quietly & sensibly exit the room when asked

5. Lesson Behaviour
1st Warning: Verbal warning - Teacher puts name on board.
2nd Warning: Verbal warning - Teacher puts name on board. If it is felt that a student would benefit from moving seats then this would be done at this stage.
If there is no further misbehaviour for the remainder of the lesson these warnings are erased and no further record is made
3rd Warning: Verbal warning & Yellow Card issued, other intervention might be necessary e.g. phone call home / writing in planner etc.
4th Warning: Removed from lesson & sent to Hub. Red Card issued & further intervention as necessary e.g. Detention/ Phone-call home / Letter Home etc.

6. Homework If deadline missed - 24 hours to turn it around
If still not handed in - Yellow Card
Persistently missed homework deadlines – Intervention by HOD & Red Card & further intervention as necessary (Detention/ Phone-call home / Letter Home etc.)
If no improvement referred to HOY & further intervention taken

7. Intervention For persistently underperforming students
Communication with Parents
Communication with Form Tutor
Communication with HOY
Homework Targets
Homework Club

8. Praise Commendations – in diary (House System) Commendation Cards
Verbal praise
Departmental – Stars, letters, phone-call / home