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Behaviour in Early Years and Primary School

2025-10-17T11:34:08+00:00

Why Compliance Isn’t the Same as Understanding Behaviour In the classroom, it’s tempting to see “good behaviour” as children sitting quietly, following routines, and doing what they’re told. While compliance does help keep a learning environment calm, it doesn’t always reflect what children have truly learned about themselves, others, or the reasons behind expectations. In order to improve behaviour in early years and primary education it is important for children to understand their emotions. As teachers, it’s important to distinguish between compliance and understanding behaviour if we want to build strong foundations for children’s social and emotional growth. Compliance: Following Without Understanding Compliance [...]

Behaviour in Early Years and Primary School2025-10-17T11:34:08+00:00

What is the Responsible Behaviour Curriculum?

2025-06-05T13:41:47+00:00

The Responsible Behaviour Curriculum: Unlocking Engagement for Ages 3 to 16 The Responsible Behaviour Curriculum offers a comprehensive and structured approach to teaching children, from the age of 3 to 16, essential life skills and executive functions. This curriculum is meticulously designed to support children in their development journey by focusing on four key areas: Functions, Fences, Framework, and Features. Each area is crucial in fostering an environment conducive to engagement, learning and personal growth. Functions: Developing Executive Functioning The curriculum starts with a foundational book that outlines the progression children go through to develop their executive functioning skills. Executive [...]

What is the Responsible Behaviour Curriculum?2025-06-05T13:41:47+00:00

Behaviour – Are we at crisis point?

2025-06-05T13:41:48+00:00

For a number of years I have seen a number of issues in the primary schools I visit around engagement in learning. School leaders are telling me that behaviour is declining and teachers are struggling to engage the children in learning. Teachers are trying and trying and getting very frustrated with the behaviour in their classroom and sometimes, with the lack of support from parents. Some teachers struggle to know what boundaries and expectations might be appropriate for children at different ages and get frustrated when children cannot follow a complex instruction or follow the rules consistently. Do we need [...]

Behaviour – Are we at crisis point?2025-06-05T13:41:48+00:00

ADHD – Things I wish my teachers had known…

2025-06-05T13:41:49+00:00

The last year has been interesting. The Department for Education has developed the early years foundation stage even further to include a goal around self-regulation. This caused me to pull out lots of saved research from a while back looking at executive function in primary education and in particular, early years education. Children’s heads tend to be full of information and as teachers we spend a lot of time filling them with more. However, we tend to spend little time developing the part of the brain - the prefrontal cortex - where executive function lives. Now, it appears, we have [...]

ADHD – Things I wish my teachers had known…2025-06-05T13:41:49+00:00
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