Dojo Policy

DOJO Background: Class Dojo is a digital classroom management tool designed to help our teachers improve pupil behaviour and communicate more effectively with parents. Each pupil gets an avatar, and teachers award Dojo points for each area of the SHANARRI Wheel aspects, achieving, being healthy, etc. Teachers can give points throughout the school day. Each pupil’s points can be displayed via a smart board, and parents, via their app, can see these.

Teachers and senior members of staff can communicate with parents on a 1:1 messaging service or via the class page where general class messages can be shared.

Aims:

To establish more effective communication links with parents.To run alongside the current effective house point system in school

Expectation of staff:

Teachers are expected to create a Class Dojo account via the website www.classdojo.com and log in on their class computer and phone.
Teachers are expected to send out invitations to the parents in their class, and regularly encourage parents to join up – teacher’s need to remember to add children and invite parents throughout the year.
Class Dojo points are to be used as an alternative to collecting physical house points that do not replace house points, but enhances them.
Teachers and support staff are encouraged to post updates on their class page - the amount is at your discretion, but the following should be a minimum - regular reminder posts about PE days/homework deadlines and other important class events such as trips or assemblies. In addition, celebrations of work and star of the week should be shared either individually to parents or via the class page.
All members of staff using Class Dojo are encouraged to set a ‘quiet hours’ on their page, this is where parents are informed that you may not read or reply to messages out of the designated hours. It is suggested that quiet hours are between 4.30pm and 6.30am, but this is at your discretion.
Teachers are respectfully reminded not to engage in any conversations about personal matters via the class page or the messaging service.
All users of Class Dojo are to make themselves fully aware of those children who have not given permission to have their photographs shared on websites and social media from the school.

Expectations for children:

Children are expected to encourage their parents and carers to join the Class Dojo; they should be given the invitations and any update letters when sent out.

Monitoring of the Policy:

It is the responsibility of all members of staff who use Class Dojo to ensure it is used according to this policy. Monitoring of the policy will be carried out by Senior Leaders. SLT monitors Dojo pages at regular intervals to ensure the policy is being adhered to.

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