The Behaviour Strategy

Current fortnightly focus: Follow procedures and routines

Procedures and routines are essential facets of our lives. Procedures help us to achieve something by following steps in a particular order. It could be how we make breakfast, get ready for school, catch the bus, or get ready for bed. Once you have practised these procedures repeatedly, they become a routine where you automatically complete the task without thinking.

Staff and students are practising procedures at school that will help set routines for a specific activity, such as entering the classroom, walking in the hallway, using equipment, sharpening pencils, attending an assembly, etc.

When students form routines, it will help them meet expectations stated in the rules on our behaviour matrix.

Can you think of procedures you may want to set up at home? You can teach the steps like you would follow the steps in a recipe, explicit and step by step.

You can also become involved by asking your child what procedures and routines they have practised and perhaps mastered this fortnight.

Miss Elizabeth Moorby I Behaviour Communicator