Useful Articles

What and How

In this article from teachers TV Brigid Medlam, a Restorative Justice in Schools project co-ordinator, looks at the range of concerns that restorative approaches can be used to address. She also outlines the process of restorative conferencing.

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Why Use Restorative Approaches?

This article, from the Times Educational Supplement, was written by Graham Robb, the previous HT of Drayton school, Oxfordshire. In it he explains the reasons for adopting restorative approaches and how they have benefited the school.

(A short video from Drayton School showing restorative practices in action can be found via the “Video Examples…” link in this section.)

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Step by Step

In a second Graham Robb (see above) looks at the steps that need to be taken to start a Restorative Justice scheme in your school. This piece is published by Teachers TV.

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Implementing Restorative Approaches

In this brief article Sam Hunt, Head of House and the Head of PSHE and Citizenship from Sandhurst School in Berkshire, discusses her schools' experiences of implementing restorative approaches.

The Talking Teaching web site is a partnership of the Teaching Awards Trust, learn.co.uk and BT and aims to provide a web-based best practice forum - by teachers for teachers.

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Primary Behaviour

This article from the TeacherNet web site investigates how restorative justice can be used to deal with behaviour and other problems in two Primary schools. Staff from the schools discuss how they have used restorative justice to help improve behaviour in both the classroom and the playground.

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