School pupils will be less disruptive if teachers greet them individually at classroom door, report suggests

Students could become less disruptive in lessons if teachers greeted them individually at the door of a classroom, a report suggests.

A study from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) finds a lack of evidence that controversial “zero-tolerance” behaviour policies – where a strict approach to discipline is adopted in schools – have an impact.

Under such policies – which National Education Union members have criticised – pupils will often automatically receive detentions for being late or forgetting homework.

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