There are 4 key messages for managing behaviour:

1.Clear expectations

2.Positive learning environment

3.Consistent framework

4.Reflect

Here is the short presentation (given in staff training 27th January 2020)

Here is the longer presentation with more details:

To download these slides as a PDF Handout, click here

Here are a list of behaviours which fall into the following: Disengaged, Disruptive, Unacceptable. Click here

Here are a list of strategies that could always be used, sometimes be used, and never be used. Click here

Here are some scenarios to consider – click here

Click here for Rainbow Nursery Behaviour Guidelines

Behaviour Training | Takeaways

Staff should:

• Have high expectations of children’s behaviour
• Be consistent in what is required
• State positively and clearly what you want
• Support children towards self-control

Strategies to use:

• Counting down…
• Clapping or clicking
• Distraction
• Eye contact
• Proximity – position yourself close to a child
• Reassuring physical contact
• Use your tones of voices and volume
• Very clear instructions – bite size
• Key words ‘focus’ or ‘welcome back’ or ‘and… listen’
• Moving a child
• Remind “Sand stays down”
• Acknowledge their feelings before setting limits “You look angry… But I can’t let you hurt Tom”
• Support children to ‘own’ their behaviour
• Redirect or divert (offer a substitute)
• Focus on their needs -> “I can see you need to be outside, let’s go down”
• Model problem solving skills
• Summarise how problems were solved for ‘next time’
• Offer appropriate choices (sit in the circle or play with a puzzle quietly at the table)
• Use natural and logical consequences
• Provide opportunities for children to make amends (no saying sorry)
• Use rest baskets for children to ‘cool off’ – they re-join when they are ready to make the right choices

Download these Takeaways as a handout