SANCTIONS

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No member of staff at Wellington may use any degree of physical contact which is deliberately intended to punish a pupil, or which is primarily intended to cause pain or injury or humiliation. This ban on corporal punishment is absolute. It applies regardless of the seriousness of the pupil's misbehaviour, or the degree of provocation. The staff do have access to the school's Restraint Policy.

Some sanctions are available for prefects to use in house.  Details can be found here.

Sanctions specifically addressing issues in the classroom or about academic matters are dealt with on another page.

For minor and relatively low-level infringements, the Proctor's Point system is in place. these are entered via the Reward and conduct section of iSAMS and e-mails get sent to the hm, the pupil and the Proctor. Approaching five points the pupil may be called to talk to the Proctor, and on reaching five points the pupil will be given a Saturday evening detention. Proctor's Points can accumulate throughout the year but have a lifetime of 4 months.

Often for the first infringement of the College Rules, Detention will apply.

Depending upon the severity of any breach of the College Rules, response in terms of punishment will be decided, as appropriate and if necessary in consultation, by HM, Second Master or Master.

A combination of sanctions may be applied, as deemed appropriate.

The more serious centralised sanctions applied by the Second Master are as follows. These are the sanctinos that will be recorded as serious disciplinary sanctions for the purposes of ISI returns.

Fatigues
A pupil placed upon fatigues will, for a set period, follow the programme designated.

Gating
A pupil who is gated will, for a set period of time, have limitations set upon his or her movements within and from College.

Rustication
This involves a requirement for a pupil to be removed from the College and to return home or to a guardian for a specified length of time. A request will be made to staff for academic work to be undertaken during this absence.

Internal Rustication
This involves depriving a pupil of normal liberties in school time. Lesson time will be unaffected. This will mean that the pupil concerned will be required to do academic work in the Library rather than attend any extra-curricular activities or have free time; this could last for two weeks in serious cases.  This punishment is an alternative to rustication and will be used when it is deemed thta sending the pupil home would seriously interrupt the academic progress of the pupil concerned.  It is occasionally used when a pupil has had a series of poor effort grades. It will be under the direction of the relevant Head of Year when the issue is to do with grades. 

Suspension
A pupil who is suspended ceases to be a member of the College whilst their future career as a pupil at Wellington is considered. The Vice President of the College, as Chairman of Governors, is informed of any such case. It would usually be expected that both the pupil and his or her parents would write formally to the Master to request reinstatement. A Suspension may therefore become deemed a rustication, may result in reinstatement under set conditions, may result in a parental decision to withdraw their son or daughter from Wellington, or may result in formal expulsion from College. A Suspension would be formally recorded in any reference from the College, unless the Master should decide that the pupil's subsequent behaviour warranted the expunging of that information from a pupil's record.

Expulsion
A pupil who is expelled from College ceases to be a member of the College, is required to leave the College, is required not to return to College and loses membership of the Old Wellingtonian Society. Any remission of the bars determined and the timing of any such remission will be at the discretion of the Master.

The complaints procedure  against any of these punishments can be found here.

RIHBD

Reviewed by RIHBD 21/04/2011 (no changes made)