St LawrenceBehaviour and Attitudes
At St Lawrence, we have incredibly high expectations of our children and are very proud of their behaviour and attitudes to learning. Our pupils understand how important it is to do the right thing, even when nobody is watching. We encourage the children to live and breathe our Christian-based values every day, for example by holding doors open for each other to show compassion and by considering our school community by being respectful to each other in the lunch hall or during Collective Worship. Alongside this, our children have a thirst for knowledge and and absolutely love learning. Come and see for yourself - we think they are exceptional!
Whole School Recognition Board
Our Whole School Recognition Board takes pride of place in our school hall and is a visual reminder to us about how well our children are doing with their behaviour. Every member of staff has been trained on how to use the Recognition Board and can aware gems to individuals or whole classes for demonstrating one of our Christian inspired school values. Pupil work together as a class to earn as many gems as possible and the winning class wins a reward on the activity cube!
The House System
We have a House system at St Lawrence to promote respect, responsibility and the value of teamwork.
Children are encouraged to earn house points for work, sport and other achievements and each term there is a fierce competition to win possession of the House Cup. There are also house sport competitions during the year.
House captains are elected each term at a special House meeting with every child in each house casting a vote for their chosen representative. House captains count up the house points earned
in each class and report on the progress and achievements of their House once a week in the ‘Celebration’ assembly.
At enrolment each child will be placed into one of four Houses; Beech, Elm, Oak or Pine. Pupils
with siblings in the school will normally be placed in the same House as their siblings
The four Houses and their colours are:
Beech - Red
Elm - Green
Oak - Yellow
Pine - Blue
Children wear their House colour t-shirts for sport and PE. These are available online from Mapac and come in a range of sizes from Age 7-8 up to S,M & L adult sizes.
Head Teacher's Lottery
Each week during Monday's assembly, there is great excitement as a wheel is spun and a random number between 1 and 30 is selected. The corresponding child in each class's register gets to visit the Headteacher on the Friday of that week and share their good work. This good work is rewarded with a gold Headteacher's sticker. If your child comes home with a Headteacher's sticker, please ask them what it is for as they will be very keen to tell you!
Top Table Initiative
St Lawrence has launched a novel scheme for rewarding good behaviour at lunchtimes: the Top Table initiative. Our Lunchtime supervisors watch for children whose behaviour during lunchtimes has set an especially good example to their peers. Good behaviour, good table manners, politeness and helpfulness are all noted. At the end of the week, 6 children are nominated for a place at the Top Table for Friday lunchtime.
The 6 children are called out in Friday’s assembly, rewarded with a Top Table sticker and are able to choose a friend to share their Top Table honours with. These children are then served their lunch ahead of everyone else, sit at a specially laid out table, complete with table cloth, and are waited on by the Hall lunchtime supervisors. As you can see, the children really enjoy their reward of being on the Top Table.
