Our ‘Compassionate School’ Policy is founded on these underlying principles:

• We are non-judgemental and have unconditional positive regard for young people.
• We are compassionate towards young people and the staff who support them.
• Our approaches are child centred and personalised.
• We use a scientific approach to understanding why the person behaves in the way that they do (function).
• Support is well planned, implemented and monitored.
• Our interventions are evidenced based - we collect hard and soft data and use it to inform how we support young people, as well as information from professionals and others.
• We use strategies that are pro-active and reactive and those that promote resilience for young people.

We believe that a pupil who is motivated, encouraged and made to feel worthwhile, and given the appropriate specialist support, will thrive.

Our compassion model