Behaviour policies at Ted Wragg Schools

Dear Sir / Madam

 

I write to acknowledge receipt of your FOI Request dated 18^th September
2023 and note that this now replaces a your previous FOI request received
11^th September 2023.

 

I can confirm that the Trust appoints an external Data Protection Officer
(DPO) Service, Judicium Education, to fulfil their legal requirement for
compliance.  Any Freedom of Information (FOI) Request can be made via our
JEDU platform located on each school and Trust website under the “Contact
Us” page.  To make a FOI Request to the Trust, you can make this by
completing [1]Freedom of Information Request.  However, I can confirm that
I have already logged your FOI Request on our platform so there is no
requirement for you to duplicate this.

 

It is noted that you have requested information from different schools and
I can confirm that the Trust will co-ordinate these requests for
information made to individual schools and provide you with one response. 
On that basis, we would therefore request that an extension of time to
deal with your request by a further 20 school days to be added to the
already allowed 20 school days taking us to 21^st November 2023 which
takes into account the half term period.

 

In the meantime, we are considering your request and will endeavour to
provide the information requested to you.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

 

 

 

[2]cid:image002.jpg@01D77741.633387A0   Jayne Powney
QA &
Compliance
Co-ordinator

Please note that I am working flexibly and can be
most easily reached by mobile or email

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Dear Mr Stapleton

 

We write further to your Freedom of Information request submitted by email
on 18th September 2023.

 

We have now completed searching for the information you requested and our
response is noted below:

 

Please provide me with the following information as a first priority:

 

 1. When was the Ted Wragg Trust established?

 

I can confirm that the Trust was established in 2013.

 

1a. Was a "Ready to Learn" behaviour policy ever used at Cranbrook
Education Campus, St James School, or St Luke's Academy?

 

The Trust does not use the term “Ready to Learn” Behaviour Policy. The
Trust provides all our schools with a template Behaviour Policy which each
Head Teacher adapts for their own school.  However, this is completed in
consultation with our Trust Lead for Behaviour and Culture and needs to be
in line with the Trust’s Written Statement of Behaviour Principles which
is available on our website and can be viewed using the following link
[1]TWT Policy Page.

 

1b. When were "Ready to Learn" behaviour policies first introduced at Isca
Academy, Queen Elizabeth's (QE), West Exe School, and any of the schools
mentioned in [1a] that did use the system.

 

I can confirm that ISCA joined the Trust in 2013 and did have in place a
“Ready to Learn” policy in the early days of the Trust which has since
been replaced with a Behaviour Policy.  No other school within the Trust
has ever had a “Ready to Learn” Behaviour policy. We no longer hold a copy
of that policy.

 

2. Copies of the behaviour policy used at each school PRIOR to any changes
made in/for 2023—i.e. during the 2021-22 or 2022-23 school year.

 

In line with our Retention Schedule, which can be found on our website
[2]Retention Schedule you will note that policy documents are only
retained until replaced.  Therefore, each school will only hold the
Behaviour Policy for the current year. 

 

The Behaviour Policy is reviewed annually and is approved at the Trust
Board.  I have provided a link to each school’s behaviour policy for your
attention:-

 

┌──────────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────┐
│All Saints Church of England │[3]Behaviour Policy │
│Academy │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[4]Rewards, Reflections and Behaviour│
│Cranbrook Education Campus │Policy │
│ │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[5]Behaviour Policy │
│Exwick Heights Primary School │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[6]Behaviour Policy │
│Honiton Community College │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[7]Rewards and Behaviour Policy │
│ISCA Academy │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[8]Behaviour Policy │
│Lipson Co-operative Academy │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[9]Behaviour and Learning Policy │
│Marine Academy Primary │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[10]Behaviour and Learning Policy │
│Marine Academy Plymouth │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[11]Behaviour Policy │
│Matford Brook Academy │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[12]Behaviour Policy │
│Queen Elizabeth School │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[13]Behaviour Policy │
│Sidmouth College │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[14]Behaviour Policy │
│St James School │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[15]Behaviour and Learning Policy │
│St Luke’s Church of England School│ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[16]Behaviour Policy │
│West Exe School │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[17]Positive Behaviour Policy │
│Whipton Barton Federation │ │
│ │  │
├──────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │[18]Written Statement of Behaviour │
│Ted Wragg Trust │Principles │
│ │ │
│ │  │
└──────────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────┘

 

If provision of the following information would cross the threshold into
'imposing a significant burden' then please disregard the remainder of
this message and focus on items 1 and 2.

 

Inasmuch as it will not cause the FOI request to fall under any
exemptions, I also request the following further information:

 

3. Copies of any surviving communication or comment from students or
ex-students that remarks upon Ready to Learn or the behaviour policy at
any of: All Saints Academy, Cranbrook Education Campus, Isca Academy,
Marine Academy, St James School, St Luke's Academy, QE, and West Exe
School.

 

We do not hold this information.

 

4. Any internal communications since the introduction of Ready to Learn or
any behaviour system that uses lesson removal after one, two, or three
warnings about mass incidents of misbehaviour or defiance (including any
event in March 2023 at West Exe School)

 

We do not hold this information.

 

5. Any internal communications since the introduction of Ready to Learn or
any behaviour system that uses lesson removal after one, two, or three
warnings that relate to students' refusal to accept or students'
opposition to any school behaviour policies.

 

We do not hold this information.

 

We do have available data which provides information about the number of
hours lost through lesson removal.  The term ‘reset’ is not used as a
recording mechanism in our management information systems in our schools.
For the purposes of this request, we have provided the link to this data
(link). [19]Lesson Removal Data

 

Again: if provision of the following information would cross the threshold
into 'imposing a significant burden' then please disregard the remainder
of this message and focus on items 1 through 5.

 

Inasmuch as it will not cause the FOI request to fall under any
exemptions, I also request the following further information:

 

6. Information about when "Lighthouse", "Compass", "Reset", etc was
introduced at each school and all available back-editions of the behaviour
policies at All Saints Academy, Cranbrook Education Campus, Isca Academy,
Marine Academy, St James School, St Luke's Academy, QE, and West Exe
School since the introduction of policies that involve students being
removed from lessons after receiving one, two, or three warnings.

 

The terms “Lighthouse”, “Compass” and “Reset” are all generic terms which
are not terms used by the Trust so therefore we do not have any policies
using these terms.  As indicated in 1a above, the Trust uses the term
Behaviour Policy and each school adapts the Trust template to suit their
own specific school, in consultation with our Trust Lead for Behaviour and
Culture and in line with the Trust’s Written Statement of Behaviour
Principles.

 

Finally: if provision of the following information would cross the
threshold into 'imposing a significant burden' then please disregard the
remainder of this message and focus on items 1 through 6.

 

Inasmuch as it will not cause the FOI request to fall under any
exemptions, I also request the following further information:

 

7. A copy of the 2018-19 “Ready to Learn expectations” poster used at West
Exe School

 

I can confirm that we do not hold a copy of the 2018-19 poster used at
West Exe School.

 

8. Copies of any surviving student-facing explanatory materials used to
introduce Ready to Learn or any behaviour system that uses lesson removal
after one, two, or three warnings.

 

Whilst we do not hold previous front facing behaviour expectations, we
provide below a copy of our current front facing behaviour expectations
for all our Schools.

 

┌───────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│All Saints Church of England Academy │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Cranbrook Education Campus │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Exwick Heights Primary School │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Honiton Community College │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ISCA Academy │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Lipson Co-operative Academy │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Marine Academy Primary │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Marine Academy Plymouth │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│ │  │
│Matford Brook Academy │ │
│ │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Queen Elizabeth School │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Sidmouth College │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│St James School │  │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│St Luke’s Church of England School │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│West Exe School │ │
├───────────────────────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────┤
│Whipton Barton Federation │ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

 

9. Appropriately anonymised (i.e. personal data removed or redacted)
copies of any Ready to Learn, Lighthouse, Compass, Reset, etc appeal forms
which have been kept on file, or information about what happens to these
forms if they are not retained

 

We do not hold this information.

 

However, there are no formal arrangements for appeals, there is in place a
process for students to engage in discussion in relation to the removal,
however the schools dispose of any documents in relation to their school’s
process. There are no computerised versions of the forms and where
completed, they are in paper format and disposed of.  

 

10. Minutes from any governors’ or trustee meetings that mentioned or
concerned Ready to Learn or the implementation of any behaviour systems
that use lesson removal after one, two, or three warnings.

 

We rely on Section 12 – Request where the cost of compliance exceeds the
appropriate limit for this request.  There are 15 Local Governing Boards
(LGBs), 1 Trust Board and 5/6 sub committees to the Trust Board meeting
4-6 times per year, per school.  In addition, “Ready to Learn” is not a
term used by the Trust.  The Behaviour Policy is reviewed annually and
approved by the Trust Board at their meeting.  The Trust has access to 1
year of minutes for all its schools and prior to this any records will be
held by the individual schools within the Trust. 

 

So that we can assist you, and to narrow the search so that this falls
within the threshold for fees, we would be grateful if you could provide a
time scale within which to search.

 

We trust the above information is helpful and we would like to offer you a
meeting should you wish to discuss any of our responses or require any
further clarity.

 

If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the
right to ask for an internal review.  Internal review requests should be
submitted within two months of the date of receipt of the response to your
original letter and should be addressed to:
[20][email address]. Please provide full details of the
reasons why you believe your request was not handled properly.

 

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9
5AF.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

[21]cid:image002.jpg@01D77741.633387A0   Jayne Powney

QA & Compliance Co-ordinator

Please note that I am working flexibly and can be most easily reached by
mobile or email

[22]www.tedwraggtrust.co.uk | [23][email address] |

Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust is a limited company registered in England
and Wales

Company number: 08545109 Registered Office: Tillhouse Road, Cranbrook EX5
7EE
The views in this message are personal; they are not necessarily those of
The Trust. This email is confidential and privileged, if you are not the
intended recipient please do not disclose, copy, or distribute information
in this email nor take any action in reliance of on its contents: to do so
is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

 

 

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Dear Mr Stapleton

 

We write further to your email dated 2^nd November 2023 in response to our
FOI Reply dated 26^th October 2023 and note the contents.

 

We acknowledge that within our reply to 1b, we responded that, “no other
school within the Trust has ever used a “Ready to Learn” behaviour
policy”.  Upon reflection and in view of your email, we should have used
the term “to our knowledge, no other school within the Trust has ever used
a Ready to Learn behaviour policy”. Apologies for any confusion this has
caused.

 

To assist, we attach our Journey of schools joining the Trust which we
believe you will find useful in providing our explanation [1]Our Journey .

 

You will note ISCA joined the Trust in 2013 and we understand that they
had in place a Ready to Learn Policy when they joined the Trust in 2013.

 

As you’ll see from the Our Journey diagram, West Exe joined the Trust in
March 2018. The letter you have shared pre-dates West Exe being a part of
our Trust of schools and we had no internal record of this which is why we
didn’t share this in our original response.  As explained in number 2 of
our Reply, in line with our Retention Schedule, which can be found on our
website [2]Retention Schedule, policy documents are only retained until
replaced.  Therefore, each school will only routinely hold the Behaviour
Policy for the current year.  On that basis, I’m afraid we are unable to
confirm whether any historic policies were ever named Ready to Learn.

 

Each of our schools reviews their Behaviour Policy annually and as a Trust
we publish a [3]Written Statement of Behaviour Principles which can be
found on our website.  The Trust does not use the term “Ready to Learn”
Behaviour Policy.

 

We hope the above clarifies the position and we apologise for any language
which proved contrary to the information you have discovered.  However, as
indicated in our response to you, we would like to offer you a meeting
with our Trust Leader for Behaviour and Culture should you wish to discuss
any of our responses or require any further clarity.

 

Yours faithfully

 

 

 

[4]cid:image002.jpg@01D77741.633387A0   Jayne Powney

QA & Compliance Co-ordinator

Please note that I am working flexibly and can be most easily reached by
mobile or email

[5]www.tedwraggtrust.co.uk | [6][email address] |

Ted Wragg Multi Academy Trust is a limited company registered in England
and Wales

Company number: 08545109 Registered Office: Tillhouse Road, Cranbrook EX5
7EE
The views in this message are personal; they are not necessarily those of
The Trust. This email is confidential and privileged, if you are not the
intended recipient please do not disclose, copy, or distribute information
in this email nor take any action in reliance of on its contents: to do so
is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.

 

 

 

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