Today, my colleague the Education Secretary has launched a consultation on how to strengthen discipline and behaviour in schools, asking teachers, parents and school leaders for views on managing good behaviour, including on the use of mobile phones in the school day.
As a mother and an MP, I know we all want children to learn in a safe and calm environment, where they are free from the disruption caused to teachers and pupils by poor behaviour in schools.
This next step follows the department’s £10 million behaviour hubs programme which partners heads and leaders from England’s highest performing multi-academy trusts with schools struggling with poor behaviour and discipline. That is why we have launched a call for evidence asking teachers and parents for their views on how to enforce good behaviour in schools – including on maintaining a calm classroom, the usage of removal rooms, and creating mobile phone-free school days.
The six-week consultation seeks views on how schools maintain calm classrooms, the use of removal rooms and creating mobile phone-free school days, among other measures. I believe this will help to strengthen behaviour standards in schools – levelling up opportunity so that every child, no matter where they grow up, can get a world class education.
The move follows the Education Secretary’s speech to the Confederation of School Trusts earlier this year, where he set out the importance of good behaviour as part of the Government’s continuing drive to raise standards and support young people to recover from the impact of the pandemic.