 Designing behaviour programs to meet individual needs
 Becoming flexible teachers and consistently evaluating teaching strategies and class programs.
 Organising and structuring the classroom that provides a cooperative learning environment.
 Supporting children in achieving success through learning
 Involving parents in promoting acceptable behaviour from their children
 Providing counselling and remediation sessions.
 Positive modelling
 Evaluating positive behaviour management practices and ensuring they are fair
 Building a rapport with students that will assist in stimulating intrinsic motivational skills.

 Developing of social, ethical and values programs
 Developing and running programs such as peer support and SRC training
 Promoting seminar participation and other training
 Promoting and practising School values
 Encouraging whole school planning and monitoring of behaviour

* Class awards, stickers, certificates, classroom privileges
* Praise and display of good effort and work

* Letters sent home and phone calls to parents
* Use of parent/teacher interviews to report on achievement
* Informal meetings with parents
* Commendable work including student portfolios

* Display of work at assemblies
* Special awards presented on Presentation Day at the end of the year.
* Verbal recognition and commendation at assemblies – individual, group and class
* Presentation of weekly merit awards. Teachers are required to hand out 3 merit awards every week to
students in their class. If teachers have 24+ students in their class they need to hand out 4 merit awards.
*Morning tea with the school executives

* Bronze Award (for 5 certificates)
* Silver Award (for 10 certificates)
* Gold Award (for 15 certificates)
*Display of work at assemblies
*Special awards presented on Presentation Day at the end of the year

At Al Amanah College, procedural fairness is a basic right of all students at school and is generally recognised
as having two essential elements.

1. The hearing rule:
To know why the action is happening, to know the way in which the issues will be determined, to know
the allegations and that they can respond to them and to know that they can appeal

2. The right of a person to an impartial decision
This includes the right to impartiality in the investigation and decision process in addition to an absence
of bias in the decision maker. If the principal or his delegate is conducting both the investigative and
decision making stages, he or she must be reasonable and objective.
To ensure the elements of procedural fairness are met when suspending/expelling a student, it is appropriate to
provide students and their parents or caregivers with details of all allegations relating to the incident.

General Guidelines

 Suspension is only one strategy used at school for the purpose of teaching students responsibility and
not as a vengeful act against a child.
 It is most effective when it highlights the parents’ or caregiver’s responsibility for taking an active role,
in partnership with the School, to change the behaviour of their child.
 Al Amanah College will work with parents or caregivers with a view to assisting a suspended student to
re-join the School community as quickly as possible. Suspension allows students time to reflect on their
behaviour, to acknowledge and accept responsibility for the behaviours which led to the suspension and
to accept responsibility for changing their behaviour to meet the School’s expectations in the future.
 It also allows time for School personnel to plan appropriate support for the student to assist with
successful re-entry.
 The Principal of Al Amanah College will exercise his authority to suspend students or expel them
having regard for his responsibilities to the whole School community and to the principles of procedural
fairness.
 The Principal will exercise his right to suspend or expel according to those procedures in place to
dealing with such matters and to deal with complaints received on these grounds.
 In determining whether a student’s misbehaviour is serious enough to warrant suspension, the Principal
will consider the safety and welfare of the student, staff and other students in the class or School.
 The full range of School student welfare and discipline strategies will have been implemented, in most
cases, before a suspension is imposed.
 Suspension can be in or out of School and will be left to the discretion of the Principal having
considered all factors surrounding his decision to suspend in the way they affect the student, his family
and other students.
 In some circumstances the Principal may determine that a student should be suspended immediately. In
this case, the student will be supervised whilst waiting for the parents. This will usually be due to
reasons such as the safety of students or staff because of violence, threats of violence, and the presence
of weapons or illegal drugs.
 The decision to suspend must be taken by the Principal, or, in the Principal’s absence, his delegate.
 A student will not be sent out of the School before the end of the School day without notification being
made to a parent or caregiver.
 Suspensions can range from 1 to 20 days depending on the severity of the offence, previous suspensions
if any, while considering the educational welfare of the student in question and of others at School.

 Parents can appeal the decision to suspend. In such a case the Principal will look at the incident again
and make one final decision. If parents are not happy with the outcome parents are free to challenge the
School’s decision with the assistance of an outside agency.
 It is very rare that a student in Prep to Year 2 be suspended from School having exhausted all other
measures to correct the misbehaviour in question. Nevertheless the policy is there to be applied if such a
case may warrant suspension.
 Immediate suspension may happen in situation where the student becomes a risk to his own safety of the
safety of others around him. While waiting for his parents to arrive the student will be supervised.
 In the case of an immediate suspension all procedures mentioned below will still apply. The child will
be kept at School until parents can pick up their child.
 In the case of immediate suspension a full risk assessment will be conducted to ensure everyone’s
safety, including the student’s safety; even while on out of School on suspension. If the School believes
that the student may hurt himself, out of its Duty of Care the School will notify the parents of that
student and offer them all the support mechanisms available in order to assist the parents and child.

Students can be suspended from School if at any time while representing the School between School hours, on
site or on an activity outside the School premises, or travelling to and from School, or while still wearing their
uniform even after School hours and not on School grounds, they:
 Threaten the safety, health or wellbeing of others
 Act violently against others
 Cause significant damage to or destruction of property
 Get involved in the theft of property
 Use, possess or deliberately assist another person to use prohibited drugs or substances
 Consistently engage in physical or cyber bullying
 Consistently vilify, defame, degrade or humiliates the School and brings it into disrepute

1. In some circumstances, a formal caution letter (refer Appendix 10: Formal Caution) may be sent
home to parents before the decision to suspend is made.
2. When the Principal decides to suspend a student, in order to provide support to the student in
question and to explain the situation, a meeting is organised between the Principal, the student’s
teacher, the parent, the student for part of the meeting and whomever from the executive staff that
the principal deems fit to attend.

3. Depending on the situation, the Principal or his delegate may at times contact the parents to inform
and discuss the suspension by telephone unless requested otherwise.
4. Depending on the situation, at times the school may call for an independent private counsellor.
5. During the meeting or phone call, the Principal or his delegate will:
• Explain to parent and child why, when and where the suspension will happen (e.g. in-School
or out of School)
• Provide contact details for additional support services
• At times, provide the student with an Out of School Learning Program, proposing a set of
School work to be done for the period of the suspension
6. A formal letter (refer Appendix 7: Suspension Letter) will be provided to the parents addressing:
1. Why the student was suspended
2. For how long
3. The day of return to School
4. The right to appeal the School’s decision to suspend the student (refer Appendix 6: Appeal
Against A Decision to Suspend/Expel A Student)

 In extreme circumstances the Principal may expel a student from the School.
 Expulsion from Al Amanah College means that the student will not be enrolled in Al Amanah College’s
sister Schools Salamah College.
 Students and parents or care-givers, who consider that correct procedures have not been followed, or
that an unfair decision has been made, may appeal.
 The Principal will exercise his right to expel according to those procedures in place to dealing with such
matters and to deal with complaints received on these grounds.
 In determining whether a student’s misbehaviour is serious enough to warrant expulsion, the Principal
will consider the safety and welfare of the student, staff and other students in the class or School.
 The full range of School student welfare and discipline strategies will have been implemented, in most
cases, before expulsion is imposed.
 In some circumstances the Principal may determine that a student should be expelled immediately. This
will usually be due to reasons such as the safety of students or staff because of violence, threats of
violence and the presence of weapons or illegal drugs.
 The decision to expel must be taken by the Principal, or, in the Principal’s absence, his delegate.

 Parents can appeal the decision to expel. In such a case the Principal will look at the incident again and
make one final decision. If parents are not happy with the outcome parents are free to challenge the
School’s decision with the assistance of an outside agency.
 It is very rare that a student in Kindergarten to Year 2 be expelled from School having exhausted all
other measures to correct the misbehaviour in question. Nevertheless the policy is there to be applied if
such a case may warrant expulsion.
 Immediate expulsion may happen in a situation where the student becomes a risk to his own safety or
the safety of others around him. While waiting for his parents to arrive the student will be supervised.
 In the case of an immediate expulsion all procedures mentioned below will still apply. The child will be
kept at School until parents can pick up their child.
 In the case of immediate expulsion a full risk assessment will be conducted to ensure everyone’s safety
including the student’s safety. If the School believes that the student may hurt himself, out of its Duty of
Care, the School will notify the parents of that and offer them all the support mechanisms available at
the School and outside of School to assist parents and child.

1. When the Principal decides to expel a student, in order to provide support to the student in
question and to explain the situation, a meeting is organised between the Principal, the student’s
teacher, the parent, the student for part of the meeting and whomever from the executive staff that
the principal deems fit to attend.
2. Depending on the situation, at times the school may call for an independent private counsellor.
3. During the meeting the Principal or his delegate will:
 Explain to parent and child why and when the expulsion will happen
 Provide contact details for additional support services
4. A formal letter (refer Appendix 8: Expulsion Letter-Misbehaviour or Appendix 9: Expulsion LetterUnsatisfactory Performance) will be provided to the parents addressing:
1. Why the student was expelled
2. The effective date of the expulsion
3. The right to appeal the School’s decision to expel the student (refer Appendix 6: Appeal
Against A Decision to Suspend/Expel A Student)