Restorative practice helps to build positive, healthy relationships, resolve difficulties and repair harm where there has been conflict rather than punish negative behaviours.  At Parkview, we believe when harm has been caused by inappropriate, sometimes thoughtless, negative behaviour then all sides need:

• a chance to tell their side of the story and feel heard
• to understand better how the situation happened
• to understand how it can be avoided another time
• to feel understood by the others involved
• to find a way to move on and feel better about themselves   

As part of the process, we ask children a series of questions to enable them to repair any harm caused and/or repair any relationships which may have been caused by negative behaviour. This approach has been very successful in our school.