Nursery World - Positive Relationships: All about ... our policy for behaviour

Adhering to agreed terms for how children behave at nursery, and how challenges are dealt with, is a team effort involving staff, children and parents, as head Michael Pettavel explains.

Picture the scene: a child comes to you crying. They're not often upset and usually busy and content at nursery. They tell you that another child has hit them on the head with a hockey stick. It's halfway through the afternoon, it's been raining all day, and you have spent your time changing children who are wet and sorting out squabbles. The activity that you'd planned carefully and bought resources for during your valuable weekend collapses before your very eyes. After administering first aid and some much-needed tender loving care, you go in search of the accused, who has been earmarked as a child who is causing concerns. What next?

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