We challenge everyone within our school community to live and breathe our values every day:

RESPECT | RESPONSIBILITY | RESILIENCE |

Our 3Rs (Respect, Responsibility, Resilience) underpin our conversations with students so everyone understands our expectations.

In summary a St Katherine’s student is expected to:

• be respectful by listening and speaking politely
• be responsible by arriving on time and fully equipped
• be resilient by remaining on task and working hard

READY TO LEARN SYSTEM

Every student at St Katherine’s has the right to learn in an environment that is free from disruption where all students can learn and all teachers can teach

Ready to Learn is based on the belief that all students can and should take responsibility for their actions. It is built around our expectation that all students be ’ready to learn’ so teachers can focus on the learning taking place within the classroom to maximise student progress.

Ready to Learn covers all aspects of school life, ensuring fairness and consistency and maximising achievement and success. Ready to Learn will strengthen the ‘learning triangle’ between staff, students and parents/carers to ensure we are all participants in our young people’s education and support them to learn in an environment where they can make great progress in every lesson, every day.

Expectations of all students

Our expectations of all students are very clear. students must meet our expectations and take responsibility for being a St Katherine’s student by being Ready to Learn. If a member of staff asks a student to do something, they must do it. We will always use clear language in our expectations – “This is a reasonable request. I expect a reasonable response”.  If the student refuses or walks away they will be sent to the Ready to Learn room.

In the classroom and around the school students are expected to:

Be respectful

• Treat everyone and everything with respect at all times
• Listen carefully and follow all staff instructions first time
• Listen when others are talking
• Put your hand up and avoid calling out
• Respect school property
• Speak appropriately with no bad language or prejudicial bullying language or behaviour
• Engage when being spoken to and never walk away
• Show good manners i.e.holding doors open for each other, greeting visitors politely
• Clear away after yourself
• Respect the needs of others
• Keep left in corridors and avoid contact

Be responsible

• Have a positive attitude
• Be punctual
• Show kindness every day
• Arrive in class within 4 minutes of the bell
• Have all the required equipment
• Keep mobiles phones and earphones out of sight during the school day
• Walk around the site and run only on the courts and fields
• Eat and drink outside or in the canteen at break time and/or lunchtime
• Go to the toilet at break time and lunch time
• Put your litter in a bin
• Speak calmly to each other without shouting
• Wear all items of uniform correctly and with pride at all times

Be resilient

• Work hard to complete all work to the best of your ability
• Understand and accept your own strengths and weaknesses
• Develop problem solving skills
• Display self control
• Set personal goals with realistic expectations
• Learn from your mistakes
• Be willing to overcome difficulties rather than avoid problems
• Be optimistic in your thinking
• Refuse to give in when facing a challenge or set back
• Be able to recognise your own emotions and those of others
• Develop social skills and the ability to seek assistance from others