Aim: To find out about a school’s policies and practices with regard to behaviour management.

The answers to the following questions should be found by studying the schools behaviour policies and through talking to senior managers and other staff.

• What are the school’s values?
• What principles are derived from these?
• What procedures are in place to help staff to apply these principles?
• How could I reflect these principles in my classroom organisation?
• What do these principles suggest in terms of my personal organisation (e.g. timing, pacing, rules, routines etc)?
• What are the implicit and explicit school and classroom rules?
• How can I apply these in my classroom?
• What are the set routines that should guide behaviour when pupils move about the school?
• Where and in what way should I ask for support when things go wrong?
• What reinforcements and sanctions are accepted?
• When was the policy written, when will it be revised and what input could I have to this process?

Add other questions to the list as they occur to you.