Mutual Respect Agenda
What is a Mutual Respect Agenda?
This is our commitment to teaching and supporting mutual respect as part of daily life at Montgomery Academy. Working together, staff and students will repeatedly revisit what it means to be respectful, and will explicitly practice and repeat respectful actions both in and out of the classroom.
How does it work?
Students will vote for termly priorities that they commit to focus on to support high levels of respect. These priorities will be expectations already in place, but ones that students believe we can do even better at. This agenda will be revisited each term with new student voting to add more actions to our agenda.
Why create a Mutual Respect Agenda?
Behaviour and respect has to be taught. Every human being must learn how to act in a safe, mature, appropriate, respectful and kind manner. This is our commitment to doing just that. Having it student focused and created by students through voting and student voice will support student ownership and increase buy in. It also contributes to creating a sense of belonging and ‘team spirit’ at Montgomery Academy, working together to make school a happy and safe place for all.
What does a Mutual Respect Agenda look like?
It is a physical document that will be revisited and updated over the academic year. Each time it is revisited, the latest respect priorities will be included, portraying what students have voted for in terms of their commitment to being respectful around the school site. The agenda will be repeatedly communicated to all students and staff in school to reinforce the message and purpose behind the initiative, and will also be made live via the school website for all key stakeholders to view.
Our vision is for respect to become a natural part of our language at Montgomery Academy, similar to terms such as ‘standards’, which is used on a daily basis by all students and staff. We want it to become the norm where the term respect is used as part of daily conversations and interactions between all members of the Montgomery Academy community.
This is a live working document - in the early stages, there will only be a small list of actions as students begin to vote about what they want to work on.
As this document is revisited over time, the agenda will grow into a ‘crib sheet’ of sorts, highlighting explicit actions that students are working on in order to promote high levels of respect.