School Wide Positive Behaviour Support
Our Purpose:
At West Northam Primary School, our students learn to persevere and achieve their best. We foster a sense of belonging and support our students to respect, care and contribute to a positive school community.
Our Beliefs About Behaviour:
- Behaviour serves a purpose – it is designed to either get or avoid something.
- Explicitly teaching expected behaviours decreases negative behaviours.
- Positive language reinforces behaviour expectations.
- Positive feedback must be immediate and specific.
- Active supervision is critical and non-negotiable.
- Clear and consistent procedures in the classroom and playground will promote positive behaviours.
- High levels of student engagement will promote positive behaviours.
- By following 1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching for minor behaviours, we allow students the opportunity to respond appropriately to instructions.
- Negative behaviours should be responded to immediately and in a calm manner.
- Staff model and reinforce appropriate behaviours.
- Classroom teachers will develop with their students a set of classroom rules that reflect our behaviour expectations.
- The matrix will be displayed in all areas of the school to reinforce positive behaviours.
What is Positive Behaviour Support?
Positive Behaviour Support is about prevention, rather than intervention, and explicitly teaching the students the skills to make good behaviour choices.
Through Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), staff establish our values of belong, respect and learn, explicitly teaching the behaviour expectations linked to each value. PBS focuses on moving from ‘Managing Student Behaviour’ to ‘Student Engagement’ by building a sense of belonging, promoting a school culture in which students respect themselves and others, creating an inclusive environment where students can focus on their learning.
We have a PBS Team to support the implementation and sustainability of PBS via evidence-based strategies using the three-tier system.
Our Team’s Purpose:
The purpose of the PBS team will be to establish a process that will enhance development of a positive school culture, a consistent approach with clear expectations and a common language used by everyone, so that we develop students who care and contribute to the school and wider community.
Staff, students and community will be consulted and informed to ensure understanding and ownership.
Decisions will be evidence-based, relevant to WNPS and regularly reviewed.
WEST NORTHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL PBS PROCEDURES
By examining data, putting in place procedures, and implementing whole school practices, we aim to make West Northam Primary School a safe and productive learning environment. The link between student achievement and student behaviour is clear, therefore we want students who are on task and authentically engaged in their learning. PBS is based on the explicit teaching of skills that are stated positively. To support the adoption of our behaviour expectations, students are rewarded with Deadlies. Every two weeks, the Deadlies are placed in a raffle and the winners receive prizes at Rocket Assembly for the positive behaviours they have demonstrated.
Staff, students and the PBS Team have collaboratively constructed a behaviour matrix, which describes the WNPS behaviour expectations, which are visible in all areas of the school. Classroom teaching schedules have been established to ensure that the behaviours on the matrix are explicitly taught, and all staff provide opportunities for students to practise their skills across all school settings. In addition, the 123 Magic and Emotion Coaching procedures are taught to all classes so that students are also fully aware of the consequences for inappropriate behaviours. These procedures include a clearly defined, teacher-managed system for negative behaviours.
WEST NORTHAM PRIMARY SCHOOL BEHAVIOUR EXPECTATIONS
West Northam Primary School has established three major behaviour expectations for students, which are aligned with our school motto of: Belong Respect Learn.
