Wyvern Behaviour Toolkit
A professional strategy database for staff. Use these evidence-informed tools to support positive behaviour, maintain classroom flow, and rebuild relationships.
Skilled Behaviour Management Strategies
These strategies sit around the Four Point Plan. They help prevent students from entering the consequence system, reduce the likelihood of escalation, and repair relationships after consequences so students can achieve well in their next lesson.
Prevent
Universal strategies that reduce the likelihood of disruption by building routines, relationships, and clarity.
View strategiesInterrupt & Redirect
Early, calm, low-key interventions to reset behaviour before it escalates, maintaining dignity and flow.
View strategiesRepair & Rebuild
Restorative actions that restore the relationship and readiness to learn after an incident has occurred.
View strategies↓ These strategies work alongside the Four Point Plan shown below ↓
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The Four Point Plan
A clear framework for managing classroom behaviour from initial disruption to serious incidents
Initial disruption
Student choice: any behaviour which breaks the PRIDE expectations, interrupting the flow of the lesson.
Consequence 1:
Repeated disruption
Student choice: a 2nd incident of behaviour which breaks PRIDE expectations.
Consequence 2:
(20 mins)
No show in break DT =
C3 (30 mins) detention.
Serious disruption
Student choice: a 3rd incident of behaviour which breaks the PRIDE expectations.
Have a phone out In class.
Consequence 3:
buddy roomed
No show in C3 (30 mins) DT
= C3 (75 mins) detention.
Defiance to staff including
refusing to go to buddy room
buddy roomed
No show at C3 (75 mins) DT
Isolation
Severe disruption
Student choice: refusal to be parked in a buddy room for on-call or disruption of the buddy room.
Swearing at a member of staff /their decision
Conduct which directly endangers others' safety.
Non-attendance at C3 (75 mins) detention.
Consequence 4:
direction, suspension
Repeated suspension =
leave Wyvern
Additional Consequence Rules
Home Learning
First home learning failure in any half term = C1.
Further HL failure in any half term = C3 (30) DT.
Lateness
Late to lesson by more than 10mins: C3 (30) DT & remain in room and any disruptive behaviour then begins at C1 towards additional sanctions.
Each subsequent late to lesson by more than 10 mins is C3 (75) DT.
3 late to lesson marks by less than 10 mins in any week: C3 (30) DT (set centrally)
6 or more late to lesson marks by less than 10 mins in any week: C3 (75) DT (set centrally)
How to use the Four Point Plan
Initial disruption
Explain clearly what the student has done wrong and why it is disruptive.
Warn them that further disruptive behaviour will result in a detention being set.
Place the C1 card on the student's desk - this is visual reminder for the student - a warning their behaviour is being monitored. Any action taken then is further disruption will be a C2 DT.
We do not record students' names on the board.
Please record on SIMS with an 'L' any students who are late to your lesson without good reason. If they are late by 10 minutes or more in which case it is a C3 (30 mins) and an 'L' mark.
If a student has three or more lessons of being late for less than 10 mins in a week, then a 30 min C3 will be issued. More than six late for less 10 mins, then a 75 min C3 will be issued.
Repeated disruption
Explain clearly what the student has done wrong and why it is disruptive. Explain that as this is now a second incident of disruption, they will have a C3 dept DT and will now be completing the lesson in a buddy room.
Write the DT on the reverse of the C1 warning card for them to be able to keep. Record the student in and record in SIMS. This can be the same day as the incident – no prior warning needs to be given to parents. This can be up to 20mins long. As you log in SIMS, check that no DTs have been set for you when you were not in class.
It's possible to set a DT for break 2 even if one exists for break 1 on the same day. There needs to be a restorative conversation in break detention.
The break detention must allow students at least 10 minutes to be able to get food and eat.
If the student fails to attend a break DT, the class teacher needs to set a 30 min after school DT and they need to notify parents. When notifying parents, as a phone call or email can be used.
Serious disruption
Explain clearly what the student has done wrong and what it is disruptive. Explain that as this is now is serious disruption, they will have a C3 dept DT and will now be completing the lesson in a buddy room.
The buddy room is not a sanction, it prevents further disruption on the lesson. The sanction is the 30 min dept detention. Students in buddy rooms return to their desks at the end of the lesson on the bell with their work unless the teacher requests they return earlier.
Escort the student to the buddy room if nearby. If not, send a student to the office. Please do not ask on-call to check whether they have arrived – send a student for a 'C3 check' by email or text to the teacher in the buddy room.
If the student refuses to go the buddy room for the teacher: notify on-call and set a C3 SLT detention and inform them. If they then refuse to go for the on-call team, log this as SLT DT but on call will follow up for a day in the IER.
When notifying parents, a phone call or an email should be made. Refer unsupportive parents to your line manager.
For phones/headphones out in class, issue the C3 dept detention and then confiscate and hand to reception for 3.00pm same-day collection. For one act of defiance (including refusing to hand over a phone) warn the student that defiance is a C3 SLT DT, ask them again and give take-up time. If they still refuse, set a C3 SLT DT.
Severe disruption
Notify on-call for all issues of swearing at staff or at staff decisions, for serious, aggressive or threatening conduct. On-call staff will remove the student from the class or in an emergency remove the class
Notify your CL of the C4 incident and the CL will (or SLT if class contact not nearby by phone or e-mail. The CL will collate statements/from you and student(s) involved and liaise with the PL to set the sanction as either an extended day of isolation, suspension, off-site direction or expulsion.
Pastoral Leaders, in consultation with Dir-of-Y or SLT, will notify parents of disruption and set the sanction as either internal exclusion, suspension, off-site direction or expulsion. Do not set a C4 yourself.
On-call can only be used for refusal to go to a buddy room or disrupting it, for swearing at staff/staff decisions or threatening and dangerous behaviour.
To use on-call, use "call-out" in Edulink. Do not email on-call. When on-call arrives, please be discreet when informing them of what has happened – not in front of other students.
On-call is a triage for students coming out of lessons. They will be directed to the appropriate place for them at that moment.