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BBC news item: Schools can avoid excluding very young children through techniques to manage behaviour that includes running off, biting and swearing, inspectors say.

24.06.09

Behaviour experts to help schools

BBC news item: Teams of behaviour experts will be sent into schools in England where behaviour is rated as merely "satisfactory", Schools' Secretary Ed Balls has said.

16.04.09

Action over truancy and behaviour

BBC news item: The role of parents is being emphasised in a new action plan to promote positive behaviour and attendance at schools in Wales.

31.03.09

Unruly pupils 'need more support'

BBC news item: Schools should band together to provide social workers for unruly pupils and support groups for parents, according to the government's "behaviour tsar".

17.02.09

1947's Mr Grimes still hits the behavioural spot

TES news item: Thousands pick up tips from US-made Maintaining Classroom Discipline film clip unearthed after 60 years. Gangs and knife crime might have been unthinkable, and canes were the only violent weapons found in the classroom - but lessons learnt about behaviour more than 60 years ago are still proving popular among trainee teachers preparing to work in today's schools.

06.02.09

School action urged on behaviour

News item: Poor behaviour in schools can be down to a failure to identify special education needs early enough, says a government adviser.

06.02.09

Behaviour classes 'lack impact'

BBC News item: England's flagship primary school social and emotional learning programme has had little impact on pupil behaviour, a study has suggested.

04.12.08

Pupils 'behave better than 1970s'

BBC News item: Primary school pupils are better behaved within the classroom than in the 1970s, says a long-term study by educational psychologists.

26.11.08

Pupils' behaviour 'has worsened'

BBC news item: Nearly half of England's teachers think pupil behaviour has deteriorated in their school in the past five years, a survey for the government suggests.

24.10.08

Public 'over-worried by bullying'

BBC news: The general public is over-concerned by the problem of bullying in England's schools, research suggests.

01.08.08

Girl guides' warning on self-harm

BBC news item: Girl guides' leaders are warning that girls face sexual and consumer pressures to grow up too soon and many see self-harm as "normal behaviour".

21.07.08

School tips on anti-gay bullying

BBC news article: Teachers in England are being alerted to guidelines on how they can tackle homophobic bullying.

30.01.08

Pupils to learn about emotions

BBC news video report: Millions of pounds of government money are being spent on social and emotional learning in schools. Sarah Campbell reports.

13.11.07

Drugs may not help ADHD

BBC news video report: Using drugs to treat children who have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is not effective in the long-term, research has shown.

13.11.07

Primary children 'suffer stress'

BBC news article: Primary school children and their parents are suffering from "deep anxiety" about modern life, according to a study of education in England.

12.10.07

Political lessons from discipline

BBC news article: Whenever a politician wants to talk tough, a speech about classroom discipline is never far away. David Cameron, assailed by leadership doubts, set out his own no-nonsense credentials with a speech that called for head teachers to be given more power to control and exclude disruptive pupils.

01.08.07

Male teachers 'help boys behave'

BBC news article: Male teachers can have a positive impact on the behaviour of primary school boys, a survey suggests.

31.07.07