Teaching and Learning
School Wide Positive
Behaviour Support
What is it?
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support is a whole school framework for promoting and explicitly teaching appropriate and positive behaviours.
Teaching, modelling and reinforcing positive social behaviour is an important part of a student’s educational experience.
It is a proactive approach and focuses on teaching all students agreed expected behaviours and pro-social skills rather than just reacting to inappropriate behaviour.
School values are explicitly taught across the school and teaching reflects the developmental level of the student.
Our School Values: Safe, Responsible, Friendly, Respectful
In addition, a small number of students will require highly individualised and intensive interventions. These interventions are:
- Planned by a transdisciplinary team
- Function based
- Student centred
- Utilise strengths and interests
- Aim to teach the student skills
- Continuously evaluated and enhanced
- Linked to the School Wide positive Behaviour Support approach
Key components of SWPBS
- An agreed upon common approach
- A matrix of positively stated expectations
- Explicit teaching of expectations
- Regular and frequent opportunities to practise expected behaviours
- Incentives/rewards for meeting behavioural expectations
- Consistency of language
Acknowledging students for positive behaviour that demonstrates our school values through:
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Classroom reward systems: working towards specific activities.
- School-wide reward systems: shop tickets, certificates/awards at whole school assemblies.
- Principal award
