Disciplinary procedures

Whilst the majority of our students have excellent behaviour and attendance, parents and students should be aware that the College has a four stage disciplinary procedure in place. This includes:

1A verbal warning is carried out by your child’s personal tutor when previous informal action has not had the desired effect on the student’s behaviour.

3If no improvement is seen, or a third act of misconduct occurs, you will again be invited into the College to try and resolve the situation and a final written warning will be issued to the student.

In addition, our security team are able to issue warning cards for poor behaviour in public areas. These yellow, red or blue cards will feed into the disciplinary process above. 2 If the issue has not been resolved, or a second act of misconduct is committed, a written disciplinary warning will be issued to the student. You will be contacted by phone and letter to come to a meeting with the relevant staff and your child to discuss a plan of action.

4If your child fails to meet the agreed conditions from stage 3, or in the case of gross misconduct, your child may be suspended on a short term fixed period exclusion, pending a thorough investigation. In a minority of cases, there is a chance that your child could be permanently excluded following a stage 4 disciplinary hearing. In exceptional cases, students can go straight to stage 3 or 4.