ABSTRACT
Storms have a number of defining elements and are a natural feature of environment and part of a system of global weather patterns. So it is that a brief cloudburst, even of small proportions, is linked to a bigger set of environmental factors. A school staff that takes the trouble to work out a set of policies all underpinned by an explicit belief in the maximum possible development of every child will have at least one policy covering positive management of behaviour within a caring and humane framework. The whole-school environment, can be thought of as the ethos of the school, and includes the physical, curricular, and social environment. Some practitioners may think that children and young people should be internally motivated to achieve and behave well and that external motivators are inappropriate. However, children only learn to internalise their motivation over time and in conjunction with feeling that they want to belong to their family's values and belief systems.
