Survey for staff
Behaviour consistency check
Shows where the behaviour system is applied unevenly, by place and by role, so leaders know where to put training and follow-up. Best run after a behaviour policy change or at autumn half term. About 5 minutes to complete.
What respondents read first
This survey asks how the behaviour system works in practice: your confidence using it, how consistently it is applied, and what happens after you report an incident. Leaders will use it to target training. It takes about 5 minutes and is anonymous: the school cannot see who answered, and results are only shown for groups of 10 or more. Written comments are read by the school. If one suggests that a child or an adult may be at risk of harm, including a concern about the conduct of someone who works with children, it goes straight to the school's safeguarding lead and is kept out of the report.
How anonymity works in this survey
- The school cannot see who answered. Nothing is reported until 10 people have answered.
- A group, such as one role or one year group, is shown only when 10 or more people in it have answered. Smaller groups are hidden.
- An answer chosen by fewer than 5 people is hidden, along with enough others that it cannot be worked out by subtraction.
- Written comments appear only once 10 people have answered.
The questions
Numbered in the order respondents see them.
Respondents choose
Which best describes your role?
- Teacher (including early career teachers)
- Support staff (including teaching assistants)
- Middle leader (for example head of department or year)
- Senior leader (including headteacher)
This places each answer in a group for the report. It is the only question about the person answering.
Using the behaviour system9
- Question 1.
The behaviour policy is applied consistently across the school.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 2.
I feel confident using the behaviour system in my day-to-day work.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 3.
Training on the behaviour policy has included practising the routines, not only hearing about them.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 4.
When I follow the behaviour policy, SLT back me up.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 5.
When I call for help with a pupil's behaviour, it arrives quickly.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 6.
Pupils move around the school calmly between lessons.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 7.
In a typical lesson or session you work in, roughly how much time is lost to disruption?
Choose one
- None
- Less than 5 minutes
- 5 to 10 minutes
- More than 10 minutes
- I do not work in lessons or sessions with pupils
- Question 12.
Detentions and other consequences are followed through consistently.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 14.
Recording a behaviour incident is quick.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
Consistency between adults5
- Question 8.
The colleagues I work alongside apply the behaviour policy in the same way as each other.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 9.
Adults challenge poor behaviour they see in corridors and shared spaces.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 10.
Behaviour expectations are upheld at break and lunchtime as well as in lessons.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
- Question 11.
Where is the behaviour policy applied least consistently? Choose up to two.
Choose any that apply
- In lessons
- In cover lessons
- In corridors between lessons
- At break and lunchtime
- At the start and end of the day
- Detentions and follow-up
- Uniform and equipment
- Mobile phones
- I have not noticed it being applied unevenly
- Question 16.
What one change would help adults here apply the behaviour policy more consistently?
Write your own answer
Follow-up after incidents2
- Question 13.
After I refer a pupil's behaviour on, I am told what happened next.
How often: Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Often, Always
- Question 15.
The follow-up I am expected to do after a behaviour incident takes a reasonable amount of time.
Agree scale: five points, strongly disagree to strongly agree
Free to run. The full report is £149.
Running it is free and gives you the headline result, with strengths and priorities. The full report adds every chart, comments grouped into themes and briefing slides.
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