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There are times when an adult does need to intervene because children are indignant and there is a position where they feel that they're aggrieved, and they need to-- and they're angry. And although that's rare, when that does happen, then an adult will move into the situation. And in this school, we try and use something called restorative justice. So, again, it's about listening and it's about not having value statements in the questioning that the adult makes. So instead of saying, who started this problem? Who is at fault? We will say things such as-- it's quite open-ended-- such as, what happened? Yeah, who's been affected by this? How are you feeling about this now? How can we put this right? And with those questions punctuated with the children's responses, it doesn't always resolve issues, but the children calm down. Nobody is being blamed, certainly not in the first instance. And there's a greater awareness of actually what happened during that because we all see the world from our own point of view, and this is a way of encouraging children to listen to somebody else's point of view. So actually those conflicts are quite useful in developing resilience and developing an appreciation that somebody else has a different point of view, and also learning how to work with conflict resolution, even over whose turn was it to be it. You know, it's early days, but it's a step in the right direction for our learning within society and how we need to conduct ourselves as adults.