Study Support Sessions/Detentions
The academy has a strong policy of restorative justice.
Restorative approaches also known as restorative practice are designed to create a harmonious learning environment where pupils are able to self-regulate their own behaviour and learning. Restorative approaches have been found very effective in improving behaviour and learning where implemented as a whole school approach.
Restorative approaches are based on four key features:
- RESPECT: for everyone by listening to other opinions and learning to value them
- RESPONSIBILITY: taking responsibility for your own actions
- REPAIR: developing the skills within our school community so that its individual members have the necessary skills to identify solutions that repair harm and ensure behaviours are not repeated
- RE-INTEGRATION: working through a structured, supportive process that aims to solve the problem and allows young people to remain in mainstream education.
Where students are expected to attend a departmental detention session, this is often the first opportunity for staff and students to engage in a restorative conversation.
The timetable is shown below:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C4 other Detention PX2 | C4 other Detention PX2 | C4 other Detention PX2 | C4 other Detention PX2 | C4 other Detention PX2 |
| Science | Staff CPD Training (No departmental detentions) | English | EBACC | No departmental detentions |
| Communications and Technology | ||||
| Expressive Arts | Maths |
* The Academy does not need to give 24 hours’ notice for detentions or internal exclusions. We will however rearrange a detention where the setting of a detention will compromise a student's safety, or the student has known caring responsibilities which mean that the time of the detention is unreasonable.
Further information is available on the DFE website.