Wellbeing

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support

On Monday I will be spending the day at Stawell Secondary College sharing our work in Wellbeing and School Wide Positive Behaviour Support. 

In preparation for that visit, I was asked to collect some data from our staff and students about our approach.

The questions I asked checked in to see if our students and staff coud name our school values, talk about our reward system and talk about how we work together to make positive behaviour choices.

I am very proud to share that 100% of those surveyed could name our values, and the students could give me examples of how they demonstrate those values in the classroom, in Music & Performing Arts, in Kitchen Garden and on our playground. 

Everybody I spoke to likes our reward system, especially our "LEAVES", and the teachers felt that we have a calm, orderly learning environment. 

This means we can get on with the business of learning!

I am looking forward to sharing this with my colleagues on Monday.

Attitudes to School Survey

Last term our Years 4 and 5 students repsonded to the yearly attitudes to school survey. I have shared the results of this with staff, School Council and the students themselves. We scored very highly - above both state and similar schools, in many areas. The students scored us at 92% positive endorsement for effective teaching and 97% for effective classroom management.

There was one area that I wanted to investigate closer, and that was help seeking. In past years we have recieved strong positive endorsement from the children in this area, with scores over 75% showing students found it very easy or easy to seek help. This year we scored 55%, significantly lower than in the past.

I have shared this with staff and School Council. I have also discussed this with our students. 

The staff will be revisiting this area in our Curriculum for the remainder of this term and into next term.

The students gave me excellent feedback, coming up with proactive strategies such as keeping Standing Tall mentors, checking in on your mates, talking to teachers or Education Support Staff if you are worried that your friend needs help, and being brave enough to speak up.

I was asked what sort of questions the children were answering in the survey, and this week, analysed the data further.

These are the results recorded against the questions about Help Seeking:

The students had a choice of the following: very easy, easy, don't have or see this person, difficult, or very difficult.

This data is telling me that 37% of our students in Year 4 & 5 either don't have or see this person for the first 4 categories, or find it difficult or very difficult to seek help from someone. 

75% of our kids in Year 4 & 5 don't have another trusted adult in the community. 

I think this is an area of work for all of us in our Cavendish Primary School Community. Please, have these converstaions with your children.  Who is in their safety network? 

We know it takes a village to raise a child. Who is in your child's village?