UNIHEZ SOCIAL AND POLICY JOURNAL

School discipline is crucial to the learning outcomes in children at the primary school level. This paper is focused on school discipline as a tool to enhance pupils’ academic performance at the primary school level. The lack of discipline among pupils has been a source of concern amongst educators. The paper explained the concept of discipline and the relationship it has with academic performance. The paper discussed the forms of school discipline which included preventive discipline, supportive discipline and corrective discipline. The paper further emphasized the significance of school discipline and the challenges encountered in ensuring discipline in schools. The paper concluded that school discipline plays a great role in enhancing school discipline. Based on these suggestions were made amongst which was that teachers in public primary schools should employ the different forms of discipline in the classroom to be able to manage the class effectively and help pupils perform excellently well.