Engagement & Wellbeing

Respectful Relationships

In 5/6 Byron this week, we have been identifying the strengths required to deal with everyday challenges. We have applied this learning by exploring several scenarios that we may face in our own lives. In groups, we discussed each scenario, formed our own opinion and shared these with our class for further discussion and reflection. 

One of the every day scenarios discussed was: ‘Jack’s Maths homework was particularly challenging this week.’ We looked at some of the strengths Jack may use to try to finish his homework and do his best. We also thought about the advice we would provide to Jack. Some of the responses from the 5/6 Byron students included that Jack would need to show determination, resilience, belief in himself and to be able to ask for help if he needed it. 

In our reflection, we discussed the rationale for choosing certain strengths and how we could use this lesson of identifying strengths, as a strategy of doing our best during everyday scenarios we face as individuals.

SWPBS

A safe and orderly school environment is important to learning. Disruptive classroom behaviour is known to interfere with learning and is a cause of stress and concern for students, teachers and families.

Most children start school with the social skills they need for success. They have learned these socially valued behaviours from their parents, families, carers, early childhood learning experiences and their social networks. Children learn behaviours very quickly, but often they also learn “misrules” or behavioural errors.

At Spring Gully Primary School we adopted the Schoolwide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) framework almost 3 years ago. This is an evidence-based, whole school framework that guides expected behaviours and values.

The strengths of this framework are:

• Good behaviour improves teaching and learning for your child and other students.
• Expected behaviour is taught directly to all students.
• Students will be acknowledged when they get it right and encouraged to keep improving their behaviour as they develop i.e. GuGu stickers
• Problem behaviour will be discouraged by a continuum of appropriate consequences.
• Parents are valued partners in the education of their children.