ABSTRACT
In conversation with Tracey Smith just as she was leaving her position as the head teacher of New Marston School in Oxfordshire, and Rachel Vlachonikolis, the head of inclusion and deputy head. We have expectations for our pupils and if they don't meet those expectations, then the result is a conversation rather than a sanction and that was significantly different from where the school had been before. So on the first big INSET [in-service training] day we had, it was based on the school culture, based on openness, trust, mutual respect and the way we speak to each other, so the way that adults model conversations for children to hear. We have a really good member of staff who runs it. The conversations that we've recently had about people that tend to go into social work tend to be people that have lived through some sort of traumatic event.
