Children are our future - we are their example

Children need praise and correction. Both are an expression of God's love and our love for our children.

All children attending Locksley Christian School are encouraged to have a positive attitude to learning and life, and are shown how to make good decisions.

Our code of conduct is a benchmark to guide students in making such decisions and in retrospectively assessing their situations and relationships.

Our code of conduct requires that:

• We will seek to honour the Lord in all things
• We will care for one another and be sensitive to the needs of others
• We will respect those in authority
• We will respect others and their property
• We will take responsibility for what we say and do
• We will take time to pursue our work and activities to the best of our ability
• We will seek to serve one another and receive help graciously
• We will enjoy the achievements of others
• We will maintain the good name of the school
• We will ask God's help in all these things, forgive one another and accept forgiveness

In the lower school this is simplified to:

• We will love the Lord Jesus as our closest friend
• We will be honest and polite
• We will listen and obey (our response to authority)
• We will be kind to each other (our response to others)
• We will take time (our response to work and activities)
• We will take care (our response to and respect for property)

Earned privilege and loving, firm discipline combine to minimise problems and promote respect.

When a person assumes greater responsibility in life or sets and achieves higher goals, he or she earns greater privileges. This principle is taught through a graduated incentive system of:

Rewarding achievement is a sound principle and encourages children to press on for greater achievement. Privileges are rewarded according to scale of industry and good behaviour.

Conversely, from time to time children need discipline. The system of demerits leading to detention, helps the staff to train each child in areas of self-control and decision making.

Discipline plays an important part in the school life of any child, and it is a condition of admission that parents guarantee to support the staff in this important area so that the child fully understands that we are working together for their well-being.

A child's attitudes, conversation, and behaviour will be expected to be in harmony with the standards of conduct that have become the accepted norm at Locksley Christian School. School policies reflect Christian and inclusive standards in courtesy, respect, kindness, morality, honesty, dress, and general demeanour.