The British School of Kuwait

Kuwait's Premier School

Sanctions for Unacceptable Behaviour

Our students appreciate the exceptional education on offer and are careful to follow our Golden Rules, negotiated with students at the beginning of each year, whereby they earn House Points, certificates and praise.

Our staff are careful to practice positive discipline, whereby correct behaviours are affirmed and unacceptable behaviour disconfirmed. Nonetheless on occasions rules are broken, creating the need for a fair and clearly defined procedure should sanctions need to be applied.

Just as each child is unique, so is each disciplinary matter and no set of rules and sanctions can fully cover every possibility. It is important therefore to understand the philosophy of behaviour management in the Lower and Junior Departments and to trust the school.

Some unacceptable actions incur a negative points allocation, as shown below. These values have been chosen to enable the logging of intermediate values if there are clear mitigating circumstances.

ATTENDANCE/ PUNCTUALITY OFFENCES	Not providing an absence note on first morning back to school	Tutor	-
	Lateness to a lesson (5+ minutes, without due cause)	Teacher	-
	Truancy from a lesson or registration period	DC	5
	Truancy from school	DC	5

INCORRECT APPEARANCE	Not complying fully with all required standards of uniform	All staff	-
INCORRECT APPEARANCE	Not bringing correct PE or swimming kit (without parent’s note)	PE staff	-

ILL-EQUIPPED FOR LESSONS	Failure to bring Student Planner/Log Book or use it properly	Tutor	-
ILL-EQUIPPED FOR LESSONS	Not bringing all required books and equipment to a lesson	Teacher	-

UNACCEPTABLE WORK	Homework not submitted in full and on time	Teacher	-
	Insufficient or inadequate classwork	Teacher	-
	Not following the presentation standards for written work	Teacher	-
	Not speaking English (except in Arabic, Islam, French)	Teacher	-

CHEATING	Copying individual work, or allowing such work to be copied	Teacher	-
	Plagiarism from a textbook, internet or other source	Teacher	-
	Breaking rules in an assessment or internal examination	DC	5

FOOD-RELATED

Bringing, having or using chewing gum or bubble gum

All staff

DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR	Disruptive behaviour (in lessons, corridors or break areas)	All staff	-
DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR	Seriously disruptive behaviour, with a malicious element	DC	5

DISRESPECTFUL BEHAVIOUR	Being impolite or discourteous	All staff	-
	Lying, or trying to conceal or misrepresent the truth	All staff	-
	Failure to comply immediately with reasonable staff instructions	All staff	-
	Using inappropriate language (not directed at anyone)	All staff	-
	Using sexual, racist or other deliberately offensive language	DC	5
	Being disrespectful towards any member of staff or the public	DC	5

PROPERTY OR ENVIRONMENT OFFENCES	Having an unauthorised item in school	All staff	-
	Littering, misusing recycling bins or spitting	All staff	-
	Failing to take care of another person’s or the school’s property	All staff	-
	Graffitiing or damaging another person’s or the school’s property	DC	5
	Theft	DC/HT	5

DANGEROUS ACTIONS	Being in an unauthorised area without staff permission	All staff	-
	Breaking the rules for safe movement around the school	All staff	-
	Breaking the Science Laboratory Safety Rules	Teacher	-
	Bringing, having or using smoking materials	DC	5
	Bringing or having anything dangerous in school	DC/HT	5+
	Setting off a false fire alarm	DC/HT	10

VIOLENT, ABUSIVE OR IMMORAL BEHAVIOUR	Inappropriate physical contact (not fighting)	All staff	-
	Physical bullying, fighting or retaliating physically	DC	5
	Emotional bullying, threatening behaviour or intimidation	DC	5
	Having, accessing or transmitting inappropriate material	DC/HT	5+
	Behaving irresponsibly towards a member of the opposite sex	DC/HT	10+
	Assault	DC/HT	10+

Sanctions

Points	Sanction	Parental Involvement
n/a	Teacher issues verbal warning. Tutor follows-up with student.	Issuing teacher records details of offence in Student Planner.
n/a	ADC follows-up with student.	ADC records details of offence in Student Planner and telephones home.
n/a	DC follows-up with student.	DC records details of offence in Student Planner and telephones home.
5	DC issues one-day suspension.	DC informs parents by telephone and arranges to meet them for a readmission interview. This can be conducted via telephone.
10	DC and Head Teacher (HT) issue three-day suspension.	DC or HT informs parents by telephone. HT’s PA arranges readmission interview with HT and DC.
20	Indefinite suspension. HT begins permanent exclusion procedures.	Parental interviews with HT and Principal.

Repeated one-day suspensions will result in a three-day suspension, at which stage a further 5+ point offence will result in permanent exclusion from the school, subject to the relevant Ministry of Education regulations.

A different procedure applies in instances of unacceptable behaviour on school buses.

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