Restorative Practice Conference 2011. Authors: Jane Harris and Jason Blount from Hull, UK

1. Jane Harris
Jason Blount

2.  Pro- active circles and building community
 Encouraging responsibility and setting ground
rules
 Responding to conflict and challenging
behaviour
 Resolvingtension and conflict and repairing
relationships through responsive circles

4.  Equality
 Safety and Trust
 Responsibility
 Builds connections
 Ownership
 Develops confidence
 Helps the learning process
 Encourages empathy
 Share experiences

5.  Re -name circle time ( if appropriate)
 Choose relevant topics
 Use restorative language-affective questions and
statements
 Train pupils as facilitators
 Encourage and empower staff
 Involve parents/carers
 Use a talking piece
 Establish clear ground rules
 Keep responsive circles solution focused
 Deal with non- compliance firmly as a group
 Introduce circles in learning and teaching

7.  Learning and teaching- starters, plenaries,
collaborative tasks, carousel activities
 Preparation for - visits, visitors, new class
activities
 Establishing ground rules/expectations for
behaviour
 Addressing class issues- homework, attendance,
fulfilling school’s key values
 Check in circles- feeling charts, fun go arounds,
friendship activities, welcoming new pupils
 KS4 specific issues- revision, post 16, application
forms, CVs

9.  What happened?
 What were you thinking about at the time?
 Who has been affected?
 How have they been affected?
 What do you think needs to happen next?

10. To address
 Challenging behaviour in class
 Relationship breakdown-pupil/pupil, pupil/
teacher, parent/teacher, teacher/teacher
 General unsettled/unfocused behaviour in
class activities
 Break and lunchtime problems