Student Wellbeing

Aussie of the Month

We are excited to announce that St Raphael's will be participating in a Federal Government initiative called Aussie of the Month.

Aussie of the Month is a free primary school civics program, delivered by the same network that presents the prestigious Australian of the Year Awards.

Operating for over twenty years, Aussie of the Month encourages and recognises personal endeavour, achievement, kindness and contribution to the community and reflects some of the values we share, such as fair go, mateship, respect and inclusion.

Each month staff, students and the school community can nominate one of our students who has been recognised in displaying any of the above values and attributes. 

This week we will announce our first Aussie of the month for February at this week's assembly. 

If you have any nominations for future months please email amcnaughton@srprestonwest.catholic.edu.au

Student Representative Council 2022

Our year levels have voted for their representatives for this year. We congratulate the following students and look forward to working with you all this year.

Foundation: Eloise Dittmer (FL) & Charlie Seddon (FM)

Year 1: Zoe Riordin

Year 2: Nicholas Christensen

Year 3: Alessandro D'Ercole

Year 4: Dean Sciulli

Year 5: Livio Tomasiello & Billy Sapountzis

Behaviour Management Policy

St Raphael’s aims to provide a happy and safe environment for all members of the school community with a focus on respect, justice, equality and forgiveness. As a school we have developed a behaviour management policy that encourages positive behaviours from students and provides strategies to help students change behaviours that may be harmful to self or others. 

We believe that developing positive leadership skills, social skills and encouraging conflict resolutions helps to create a climate where students take responsibility for their actions, develop self-reliance, resilience and respect for themselves and others.

All children, staff and parents endeavour to live the Gospel values in our everyday lives, with a strong personal commitment to well-being of each child.

Promoting positive behaviour at St Raphael’s

At St Raphael’s, we promote positive behaviours to maintain an affirming and encouraging atmosphere in all learning areas and in the playground. 

Teaching strategies that support positive behaviours begin by making expectations clear, teaching children how to meet them and reinforcing children’s appropriate behaviour. (Be You)

Whole school expectations have been developed in consultation with staff. These have been discussed, explicitly taught and displayed in each of the homerooms. 

Psychological research has shown that following up a person’s behaviour with something positive makes it more likely that the behaviour will happen again. Praise and other kinds of acknowledgement are motivating, and are often needed to help children change their behaviour.

Children learn positive behaviours through them clearly knowing what is expected and praising or rewarding them when they do it.  (Be You)

Proactive strategies are aimed at decreasing behaviours of concern and replacing them with pro-social skills that lead to enhanced social competence. 

Schools work towards creating a climate where positive behaviour is explicitly taught and reinforced and prevention approaches are emphasised. Incidences of negative behaviour are responded to systematically and consistently. (CECV Positive Behaviours Guidelines)

Please find the St Raphael's Behaviour Management Rubric below: