About Positive Behaviour
The Scottish Government is committed to supporting the creation of peaceful learning environments and promoting positive behaviour in schools.
The Scottish Government will work in partnership with local government towards agreed outcomes. This includes the outcome that all our children and young people will become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens.
Improving relationships and promoting positive behaviour in schools, and indeed wherever we work with children and young people, underpins the delivery of this outcome.
The approaches we will use
To this end the Positive Behaviour Team currently supports schools and local authorities to introduce and embed approaches to positive behaviour. The approaches include:
- staged intervention
- solution-oriented approaches
- The Motivated School
- Social and Emotional Learning Frameworks (SELF)
- restorative practices
- Being Cool in School
- nurture
- emotional literacy
- inclusion for pupils with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties.
The team
Each member of the Positive Behaviour Team (all seconded educational practitioners) is responsible for a local authority. You can email Maggie Fallon, the Team Leader, to find out who to contact in your local authority.
The Positive Behaviour website
This site is for everyone who has an interest in promoting positive relationships with children and young people, including teachers, headteachers, additional support staff, local authority staff, Directors of Education, partners from children’s services and the voluntary sector: everyone who works to improve the lives of Scotland’s children and young people.
This website will be developed over the next few months, and will be updated with the latest information and examples of good practice. In the meantime you can continue to access information and resources on the Better Behaviour Scotland website.
Improving relationships and promoting positive behaviour in Scotland's schools leaflet (434 KB)