🧭 Behaviour record

For behaviour that challenges — unkind or rude words, swearing, discriminatory words, hurting another child, or when you had to hold or move a child to keep someone safe. Record it from the first time. One record is not a problem; it is how a pattern becomes visible.

Deal with it at the time as you always do. This goes to your manager, who reviews it and decides what happens next — telling parents, a support plan, the Incident Log.

Our non-negotiable core statement

Record what happened, and what the child might have been telling you.

“At JLK, we see behaviour as development.
Children communicate through behaviour, and we guide skills step by step through calm modelling and consistent support.”

🛡️ Not this form if: it involves sexual words, play or knowledge, or anything that makes you worry a child is being harmed. Tell the DSL now, then use Safeguarding: cause for concern. About an adult? Same — DSL in person first.

The child

First name and the first letter of their surname. The policy uses initials; that is enough to know who.

First name

Surname initial

Site

Room or area

Date

Roughly what time? optional

What kind of behaviour

Choose the closest

Who was it directed at?

What happened

Facts, not what you think it means. The record is confidential.

The exact words used if words were part of it — write them as said, even if offensive

What happened? required

What led up to it? optional — what was happening just before; this is how triggers get spotted

What did you do? optional — how the child was supported, and how anyone upset was comforted