Behaviour management

The Primary National Strategy and the Key Stage 3 Strategy promote positive behaviour as a precursor of effective learning. The Excellence in Cities (EiC) initiative comprising, in particular, the learning mentor strand and the establishment of learning support centres seeks to nurture the aspirations of children and young people and build a positive approach to learning.

As part of the National Strategy for Improving Behaviour and Attendance in Schools, Ealing's EiC partnership received targeted additional funding up to March 2006 for a behaviour improvement programme (BIP). BIPs form part of a new behaviour and attendance strand of EiC. The BIP funding is additional to that for learning mentors and learning support centres, which will continue as part of the new strand.

EiC's role in the national behaviour and attendance strategy is to ensure continuation of extra targeted support to areas facing the biggest challenges and augment existing services within LAs.

The strategy has a universal element supporting schools through provision of behaviour training, behaviour and attendance audit material, behaviour consultants in every LA (in Ealing, school improvement and achievement service consultants take this role).

The universal element is being rolled out in Ealing to all secondary schools as a strand of the key stage 3 strategy.