Disruption and bullying
If you’ve worked in a challenging school you’ll know how devastating an impact disruptive behaviour and bullying can have on learning.
The most disadvantaged students are the hardest hit.
Not addressing them risks eroding good will and leads to toxic relationships - between both students and staff.
This week’s We Are In Beta highlights will help you eradicate disruption and improve staff relationships.
We - schools - Are In Beta - always learning (when we get rid of disruption and have powerful conversations).
This week
🎥 How to eradicate disruption and bullying.
💬 4 horsemen + 4 powerful coaching questions.
💼 Jobs with We Are In Beta community members.
🎥 “What We Dos”: Systems to ensure 100% disruption free schools
Arrival, uniform, starts and ends of lessons, transitions between lessons, break, lunch and the end of the school day are all hot spots for when disruption can take hold and bullying can happen.
Grey areas around them - both physical and metaphorical - provide opportunities for them to get worse, especially in challenging schools.
So how do you ensure there are no grey areas? What system can you build to ensure disruption doesn’t happen?
Join Headteacher, Nat Nabarro, to learn how Blaise High School has seen an increase of 0.6 in P8 for disadvantaged students by reducing disruption and bullying at key moments of the school day with some of the most robust systems you have ever seen.
📆 Tues 16/01/24
🕟 4.30pm
Nat, won’t just be telling you how they do it. He will be showing you by sharing thes systems below. Not to be missed.
💬 Making coaching conversations powerful at Harris Federation with four questions.
The ‘High Dream’ above is a much sought after destination.
But, post covid, getting there has not been easy.
One key area where the pandemic has had a major impact is relationships. When they sour toxic things happen.
Unskillful conversations, and what Executive Principal, George McMillan, refers to as the four horsemen, are two problems with staff relationships he’s noticed since schools began the new normal.
Ever since he’s made it his mission to challenge them. To impressive effect thus far.
What are the four horseman? And how have he and his teams been making conversations more skilful? Well…👇
💼 Jobs with We Are In Beta community members.
System leadership
National Lead for MFL - Astrea Academies Trust (Cambridgeshire).
Senior Leadership
Headteacher - Brakenhale School, Greenshaw Learning Trust (Bracknell).
School leaders ready to be a principal - to join a 5 year programme with a £100k development account - AET (all regions).
Middle leadership
Head of Science - Tamworth Enterprise College Science Department (Staffordshire). View role here.
Curriculum Leader Physics - Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby (Shropshire). View role here.
Curriculum Leader KS3 Science - Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby (Shropshire). View role here.
Teaching
📚 English x 2 - Bohunt Horsham (West Sussex).
📚 English - Colchester Academy (Essex).
📚 English - Cumberland Community School (Newham).
📊 Maths - Colchester Academy (Essex).
📊 Maths - Les Quennevais School (Jersey).
🧬 Science - Bohunt Horsham (West Sussex).
🧬 Science - Cumberland Community School (Newham).
🧬 Science - East Barnet School (North London).
🌎 Geography - Cumberland Community School (Newham).
🇪🇸 MFL - Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby (Shropshire).
🕌 RE (with option to apply for PSHE Co-ordinator role) - East Barnet School (North London).
🏑 PE - Bohunt Horsham (West Sussex).
⚒️ Food or Design & Technology - Bohunt Horsham (West Sussex).
🤝 SEND - Cumberland Community School (Newham).
On a personal note.
I’ve experienced both the good and the not so good when it comes to student behaviour and staff relationships.
Where the systems weren’t centralised, the protocols not agreed and the language not shared - learning and teaching was impacted, conversations were difficult and staff turn over was high.
Tough though it was, it did force me to think really hard about systems and work with a coach on how to get the most out of conversations with colleagues. It took time but I can now recognise what good looks like.
If that resonates with you, I can’t recommend the sessions above enough. The resources here and further reading here (linked from here) are worth their weight in gold.
PS. Happy New Year! Welcome back. Have a great term.
PPS. Thank you to all the pastoral leaders who’ve been feeding into the planning of our pastoral leadership conference. Really appreciate it. More to follow soon.
Thanks for reading.
@NiallAlcock and the We Are In Beta team
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