Escalating a Sanction to a Leadership Detention

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 “I can give students a Leadership Detention but some colleagues cannot.  Why is this?”

 

  • Students that miss a detention with an individual member of staff should receive a Faculty Detention.
  • Students that miss a Faculty Detention should receive a Leadership Detention.  This lasts 1½ hours.
  • Maintaining communication with the student and parents during this process is vital to ensure the reasons for sanction and its time and location are known.

 

 

Only HoFs, DoLs and LT have the ability to add students to a 1½ hour Leadership Detention on a Thursday afterschool.  This is to ensure, where students have got to this stage of sanction (intervention), that HoFs (for all curriculum issues) and DoLs (for pastoral issues) are part of the process, both to keep them in the loop and to enable them to offer advice and support.  The process, which relies on the original detention having been entered onto epraise, is gven below.

 

 

 

How to Escalate an Intervention to a Faculty Detention or a Leadership Detention

 

Three methods of escalating a detention are described on pages 33-34 of the “Rewards and Behaviour Processes” booklet.  The one that is described below is easiest for HoFs (for all curriculum concerns) and DoLs (for pastoral concerns) to complete, where they did not set the original intervention on epraise.

 

 

 

  • Search for the student using the magnifying glass icon ()

 

  • Click on “Interventions”

 

  • Find the intervention that has been missed

 

  • [Clicking on the green magnifying glass icon ()will show you the timeline of this behaviour and associated interventions]

 

  • Click on the red-and-yellow-card icon () on the right of the screen

 

  • Choose the “Type” of intervention as Leadership Detention (or otherwise)

 

  • Make sure you include appropriate detail for parents in the “Comments” section

 

Parents logged into the epraise app will receive an immediate notification of the intervention.  For Leadership Detentions, a ParentMail will also be sent home by the office two days before the detention.  However, for any escalated intervention it is expected (and very beneficial) to make contact with home to discuss the ongoing issue.

 

 

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