Relationships and Values at Norbury Hall Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,
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As part of our school priorities over this year, we have as a staff team been looking at how we communicate our values within our school community.  As part of this work, we have also been reviewing how we will look at rewards and consequences for behaviour from September 2026.

​Our new values are prominent in our school entrance, on our school website and we are familiarising our children with these.  Our values are:

• Curiosity
• Responsibility
• Bravery
• Kindness
• Understanding

We think this summarises what it means to be a learner and part of the Norbury Hall community.

To further our work on a new approach to rewards and consequences, we wanted to ask for parent and carer viewpoint on our thoughts.  We have formulated the attached documents as a full staff team alongside our local governing board and a small council representing the children have also considered them.  If you have any views on our proposals, we would like you to get in touch with us and share your thoughts.

We have used the language within our work of ‘rewards for actions’ and ‘solutions for mistakes’.  We haven’t used the language of sanctions or consequences as we want the children to understand that with the right set of actions we can move forward.

We obviously plan to make sure the children understand these guidelines once they are formalised.

I would like to make it very clear that these guidelines are not for instances of bullying or racist behaviours – these will still be considered under the relevant policies which can be found on the school website.  Similarly, for some children we sometimes have more bespoke plans in place.

We will be rewriting the behaviour policy in light of this work and the attached documents will be a part of this.  This has to be reviewed by staff and governors and will be published for September 2026. 

We look forward to your comments and thoughts.  Please put these in writing and email them to your child’s class teacher or to the [email protected] address.

Becky Wood
Headteacher

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