The use of circles in secondary schools.

  Pro- active circles and building community

  Encouraging responsibility and setting ground
rules

  Responding to conflict and challenging
behaviour

  Resolvingtension and conflict and repairing
relationships through responsive circles

  Equality
  Safety and Trust
  Responsibility
  Builds connections
  Ownership
  Develops confidence
  Helps the learning process

  Encourages empathy
  Share experiences

  Re -name circle time ( if appropriate)
  Choose relevant topics
  Use restorative language-affective questions and
statements
  Train pupils as facilitators
  Encourage and empower staff
  Involve parents/carers
  Use a talking piece
  Establish clear ground rules
  Keep responsive circles solution focused
  Deal with non- compliance firmly as a group
  Introduce circles in learning and teaching

  Learning and teaching- starters, plenaries,
collaborative tasks, carousel activities
  Preparation for - visits, visitors, new class
activities
  Establishing ground rules/expectations for
behaviour
  Addressing class issues- homework, attendance,
fulfilling school’s key values
  Check in circles- feeling charts, fun go arounds,
friendship activities, welcoming new pupils
  KS4 specific issues- revision, post 16, application
forms, CVs

  What happened?
  What were you thinking about at the time?
  Who has been affected?
  How have they been affected?
  What do you think needs to happen next?

To address
  Challenging behaviour in class
  Relationship breakdown-pupil/pupil, pupil/
teacher, parent/teacher, teacher/teacher
  General unsettled/unfocused behaviour in
class activities
  Break and lunchtime problems

The use of circles in secondary schools.

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