The Royal Manor School

Graham Sawyer, Head of Behaviour Support at The Royal Manor School in Dorset gives his response to our feedback questionnaire:

What features of sleuth originally interested you in the system?

1. A way of recording behaviour and then being able to track patterns, etc, very easily
2. Giving forms of presentation to feed back to staff

How do you feel that sleuth will benefit behaviour management at your school?

1. It will highlight issues in a very clearly defined way
2. Should highlight areas of strength/weakness

There are a number of potential benefits to behaviour management strategies reinforced through the use of sleuth, how would you rank the following in order of importance from 1 to 10, where 1 is the most important?

1. By improving incident tracking and follow-up
2. By its ability to analyse incidents and behaviour
3. By encouraging consistent sanctions
4. By improving incident reporting
5. By improving access to incident and behaviour data
6. By assisting in the development of pupil support plans
7. By reducing administrative effort
8. By assisting in the development of staff support plans
9. By improving incident recording
10. By meeting DfES guidelines on incident recording

In what ways do you think sleuth will help members of staff with behaviour management?

1. It will be an early warning system to target individual pupils
2. It will clearly identify patterns to work on for that pupil
3. It will address consistency issues across the school

How do you feel sleuth could be used to support other strategies - e.g. in terms of direct work with students and parents?

It will be used to show parents concerns about son/daughter and to set failure targets.

What procedural changes were required as a result of implementing sleuth at your school? e.g. to your existing policy, to your paper-based system

1. Referral system was modified to fall in line with sleuth
2. Teacher assistants were given time to impute data

The system claims to be "easy to use"- do you feel staff feedback would support this claim?

Very easy to use although can become time consuming if large amounts of data have to be inputted

Why did you choose sleuth over other behaviour recording systems and which other systems did you consider?

Looked at the Leeds model, sleuth fitted our requirements better

Do you have any other comments regarding sleuth or School Software Company .com?

We have been very impressed with the software back-up we have received.

The Royal Manor School
Weston Road
Portland
DT5 2RS

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