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Pro-Social Behaviour Policy
Behavior is communication
Young children are not born with the ability to know what socially acceptable behaviour is; it is something we hope to help them understand, through interactions with sensitive adults. Supporting children with their emotions and developing their understanding of the needs and rights of others and themselves, is fundamental, to everything we do at Wild Monkeys. We implement the early years curriculum supporting children to develop their personal, social and emotional development. This involves helping children to understand their own feelings and others and beginning to regulate their behaviour. We support children to do this through working together with parents, having consistent approaches, structure, routine and age/stage appropriate boundaries appropriate to the emotional development of the child. We help build confidence and self-esteem by valuing all children and giving lots of praise and encouragement. Promoting positive behavior is very important and we do this by:
Staff help the children understand the nursery rules, which are realistic and constantly enforced. Staff do not give out confusing signals. Staff are aware of the different reasons why children cannot regulate their behavior and will endeavor to keep to routines so that your child feels safe and is not over-tired or hungry. However, children may not be able to regulate their behaviour. We have developed several different strategies on how to deal with this. Staff use different ones depending on the age/stage of ability of the child and the situation:
Staff will never smack, shake, or hit your child, staff will not humiliate your child. If your child continues to be unable to regulate their behaviour, Staff will inform you as soon as is practical. There may be times when staff will need to physically intervene or restrain a child to prevent an incident from taking place or to stop an occurring incident. This could be when a child has hurt, is hurting, or is about to hurt another child, or is about to run into the road etc., in this case, a physical intervention form will be filled in and signed by parents. It may be necessary for staff to remove a child from an activity and use the reset space, to help with self-regulation. Staff will also encourage the child to apologize to the other child and work with them to develop strategies to help them deal with the reasons why the incident took place or was about to take place. For older toddlers and pre-school children, we have clear boundaries and procedures for managing behavior issues, staff will:
At Wild Monkeys we believe in working in partnership with families, promoting an ethos within our community which values the social, personal and emotional development of each of its unique children and supports their developing ability to regulate themselves. Secure children are happy children who are ready to learn. • We will ensure that this policy is available for staff and parents on our website • Staff and parents are also welcome to review and comment on the policy and procedure • If any parent has a concern about their child, a member of staff will be available to discuss those concerns. Working together can ensure our children feel confident and secure in their environment, both at home and in the nursery • All concerns will be treated in the strictest confidence. Children may be neurodiverse, have an identified additional need or disability: These children may find it more difficult to regulate their emotions and behaviour. The need or disability may impact on his or her ability to form relationships, learn new concepts or access learning. We will talk to our SEND Lead Practitioner for support with strategies and ideas to create a Behaviour Support Plan, where appropriate. They may recommend observations using an ABC tool. Which will help us to understand any triggers or patterns. We will make a note of any incidents on an incident form and will speak to the parents/carer to help them understand what happened and what we are doing to support their child. We believe that positive role modelling of behaviour is fundamental to developing socially acceptable behaviours. We understand that young children are learning to regulate their own emotions and need sensitive adults to help them do this. We call this Co-Regulation. This comes before Self -Regulation. Emotions can often be overwhelming for young children. Staff will comfort whoever needs, and respond to common behaviours (tantrums, biting, fighting) calmly, patiently and positively, helping children to manage their feelings, to resolve issues and promote understanding. Sam is our setting behaviour support and helps in all settings to support children and staff.
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