ABSTRACT
You also need to discuss as a staff what you expect from children by way of conventional good manners, such as opening doors for other people, letting adults go first, greeting visitors and everyone needs to insist that these rules are kept and praise children when they behave accordingly. These are only conventions, however, and conventions vary with the community and differ at different points in time and you must bear this in mind in what you decide to establish. On the other hand, the fact that the behaviour you wish to establish is not current in your community should not deter you, since it is part of the job of the school to make children socially mobile so that they can fit into quite different communities. You may therefore wish to set standards of behaviour that allow this.
