Behaviour Sanction Pattern Analyser
Whether sanctions cluster by pupil, teacher, time of day or subject — often uncomfortable reading, which is the point.
School sanction data reliably shows three patterns that pupil behaviour alone does not explain: a small number of pupils receive most sanctions, a small number of staff issue most of them, and sanctions rise sharply in the last period of the day.
Behaviour Sanction Pattern Analyser
Frequently asked
Why analyse sanctions by staff member?
Because the distribution is always uneven and rarely examined. Where three staff issue a third of a year group's sanctions, that is information about practice and support needs rather than about which classes contain the difficult pupils.
Is SEND over-representation in sanctions normal?
It is common, documented across several national datasets, and it appears in exclusion figures too. Common is not the same as acceptable — it usually indicates behaviour arising from unmet need being treated as a choice.
What about the time-of-day pattern?
A sharp rise in the last period is one of the most consistent findings in school behaviour data and is generally about fatigue — pupils and staff — rather than about the subjects timetabled there.
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