Restorative Justice

What Is Restorative Justice?

This year we are using this as a strategy to manage behaviour and empower our teachers and students. It is based on Daniel Goleman's emotional intelligence model. We want our children to ...

• Be aware of and manage difficult feelings

• Motivate themselves

• Recognise the feelings of others and understand the effect of their behaviour on others

• Get along with others

Think relationships, not just the rule and the consequence when thinking about Restorative Justice

• The purpose is to help the student understand the effect of their behaviour on relationships (empathy)

• It provides a method of accountability and repair to those relationships

• It helps build the needed skills for better behaviour