Our Whole School Routines

Our Whole School Routines provide all children and adults with consistency across the school. Our routines promote making good choices easy and the poor choices hard. We have composed a set of rules, routines, and ways of acting that we learn and practise so that, everyone in school feels safe, happy, and ready to learn. Our approach is that we teach our children how to behave, show them what this looks like in action - instead of expecting it. This is because we really care about our children.

Why?

• Our Whole School Routines are particularly powerful because human attention is so heavily limited - we can really only attend to one thing at a time. As a result, when a routine is in place, children end up needing to think less about the process of their learning, and so can think more about the content of their learning. This is important, because what our pupils attend to is what they end up thinking about. And what they think about is ultimately what they end up learning.

• Prevent confusion or distractions in lessons or around school when different adults have different routines and expectations.

• Support all children to manage their cognitive load and ego-depletion through automating our whole school family routines and expectations.

• Free up working memory to focus on the learning rather than what children should be doing (e.g. how to sit, listen to others, write the date, ask for help, what you do at the start of a lesson, what to do when finished).

What are the routines?