Primrose strongly believes who children become is just as important as what they know. Prevention and positive guidance are the primary methods we use to manage challenging behaviors.

We use a set of simple guidelines, the "Primrose Rules of the Roost" to teach children how to safely interact in the classroom. Your child will review these regularly at school. We encourage parents to also remind their children about these expectations at home.

Primrose Rules of the Roost:

• Be kind to yourself and others.
• Use your listening ears and looking eyes.
• Keep your hands and feet to yourself.
• Use your walking feet and inside voices in the classroom.

Our priority is to provide a safe, nurturing environment where children are challenged and allowed to grow at their individual rates. Our goal is to create a nurturing atmosphere with developmentally appropriate activities to promote children's health, safety, and educational well-being. Conflicts may arise when children interact in a classroom setting. We will take every opportunity to teach each child ways to solve their differences in a peaceful manner. We will praise and recognize positive behavior, while discouraging & constructively addressing negative behaviors.

By using encouragement and positive reinforcement/redirection as well as providing children choices, talking about conflicts, modeling appropriate behavior, and allowing children to verbalize their frustrations, teachers give children the opportunity to cope with their feelings in a manner that helps them develop self-control. We use storybooks, "Primrose Friends" puppets and discussion to work through common conflicts.

When Further Action Is Required

At Primrose, one of our primary goals is to create a pleasant environment for all of the children we serve. We understand that children may use occasional misguided behavior because they have not yet learned what is acceptable behavior. However, at times a child's behavior may endanger themselves or others. Problem behaviors may also repeatedly interfere with other students' learning. Examples of behavior issues that will require further action may include:

• Leaving the classroom or playground without permission.
• Refusing to come in from playground time and running from teachers.
• Repeated use of extreme language that is not age appropriate. Repeated hitting, kicking, biting, scratching, pushing, pulling hair, or spitting on other children or teachers.
• Repeated unsafe misuse of classroom materials that results in injury to self or others or destruction of property.

When issues such as those described above arise, the school leadership team will determine the best course of action. When practical - the following steps may be utilized. However, Primrose School reserves the right to skip any step or repeat certain steps as we deem necessary.

• The behavior will be communicated via an incident report.
• The behavior will be communicated via both an incident report and a phone call to the parent. The child may be temporarily removed from the classroom environment.
• The parents will be called and the child will be sent home for the day. A parent- teacher- head of school conference will be scheduled to discuss strategies to eliminate the misguided behavior. Referral for outside advice and evaluation may be suggested.
• School and parents will work together to implement strategies discussed in the conference.
• If behaviors continue, parents will be required to pick child up from school and child may be required to remain out of care for a longer period of time.
• If there is no measurable improvement in child's behavior, Primrose will dismiss the child from our program. (Any prepaid tuition will be refunded. Registration and Supply fees are not refundable.)

 

Additionally, Primrose reserves the right to terminate any child's enrollment when we feel that any of the following conditions exist: 

• The parents are not able to work with the school constructively and positively. 
• An excessive amount of the teachers' time is needed to attend to a single child's needs, to the extent that it deprives the other children in the classroom from receiving a positive learning experience. 
• Challenging behaviors endanger the well being of other children/staff or the child engaging in the behavior.

Please sign below to acknowledge your understanding of Primrose Schools Behavior Management Policy.