Educational Programme

Caxton College is firmly committed to providing an education based on solid moral values, which encourage peaceful co-existence within the school. With this in mind, we try to instil in every new generation of students strategies for dealing with others, based on respect, understanding and valuing all other people.
In order to achieve this aim, the school has a Good Relations Policy to integrate all the activities carried out by the staff throughout the year, the main objective being to promote these values while at the same time foreseeing and preventing problems in the classrooms. 

Some of the areas that our Primary plan includes are as follows:

•  ‘Circle time’: weekly sessions, supervised by teachers, where pupils sit together in circles and discuss problems they have had during the week. This exercise helps self-esteem and allows children to share and solve their problems together.
• Assemblies: these take place once a week and are specific to each year group. They are given by teachers and help children to think about key topics and develop positive ethics.
• The house system:, primary pupils are given a sense of belonging and teamwork together with their house companions, regardless of what school Year. It is essential for all pupils to experience working together to achieve goals. 
• Teachers use a system of positive reinforcement, congratulating pupils for their merits or asking them to reflect over their negative actions.): in this programme there are five steps used to help children understand how to cope with their emotions, motivate themselves, feel empathy towards others, and develop their social skills to work and cooperate as part of group.
• SEAL Programme (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) consists of explaining five basic concepts that will help students to get to know, understand and control their feelings, to be motivated, to empathise with others and to use their social skills in order to work in a group.
• Socio-metrical questionnaires to receive information directly from pupils about how they feel about school and other pupils. This is carried out in Y5 and Y6 in order to detect any possible situations of isolation or bullying. 
• Bus & patio supervisors – annual training: this takes place at the start of every school year and is followed by regular meetings with supervisors to ensure that our Good Relations Plan is adhered to.

In Secondary, we work on different aspects of bullying at school during the Tutorial sessions and in PSHCE classes. In addition, the following activities are carried out:

• Termly Discipline Assemblies: These allow the teaching staff to reinforce and develop a positive ethic within the school and to help students to reflect on their own civic responsibility, giving them the chance to actively participate in it. In the assemblies they will be informed and reminded of the rules and expectations of the school.
• Annual Respect Assemblies: In which respect for all the teaching and non-teaching staff in the school is instilled and reinforced, as well as respect for their school-mates, especially those who come from different countries.
• Use of positive reinforcement: Students are given extra responsibilities, they are congratulated by their Head of Year or Key Stage, notes are written in their diaries and they receive special certificates, High Levels are awarded (these are given to students for sustained effort or good behaviour and may be given by any adult in the school), verbal praise, etc.

In addition, in both the Primary and Secondary stages of their education, students carry out group activities designed to improve relations in general, such as:

• Questionnaires designed to obtain information directly from the students themselves about their preferences and the perceptions they may have of their classmates, and which enable to detect situations of isolation, harassment or bullying.
• Training for Playground and Bus Monitors which is carried out at the beginning of every school year and which continues with regular meetings with the supervisors, so that they too can apply the same policy as the rest of the school.