SWPB and Classroom Systems

Acknowledging Positive Behaviour

Acknowledging students for what they are doing that is positive, is integral to Mackellar's approach to School-wide Positive Behaviour (SWPB) and creating a safe, inclusive and supportive social and educational environment. 

The consistent delivery of specific positive feedback and related reinforcement establishes predictable and positive classrooms. Research tell us when teachers increase their rates of specific positive feedback and reinforcement of desired classroom behaviour, student behaviour and learning improves and teacher-student relationships are enhanced.

Our Buzz Award Acknowledgement system has grown from school-wide outdoor acknowledgements to classroom acknowledgments through Classroom Systems.

If they haven't already, your child/children will soon share their classroom matrix and buzz awards with you.   The process of creating classroom expectations and routines has involved negotiation between students and their teachers.   You will notice that your child's classroom matrix reflects our whole school matrix values; Learning, Respect, Resilience and Teamwork. The settings within each class are; 'whole group learning, small group learning, transitions, independent learning and when I need assistance'.  This te, we will provide a brief survey for parents/carers via XUNO to measure how students have communicated the process to their families. 

Classroom Systems aims to improve: 

• student behaviour through consistency and explicitly stated behaviour
• academic achievement and individual student outcomes
• student engagement and increased time on task for students and teachers by minimising classroom disruptions
• wellbeing of students, and
• student voice.

Lunchtime Clubs - A Menu of Choices

Lunchtime Clubs is a strong builder of social and emotional learning skills as students with shared interests connect with children from other grades and year levels.  They really enjoy having a menu of choices about how they may spend their unstructured time.  Clubs is also one of the many contributing factors that builds a sense of belonging for children in a positive school community.

Clubs start at the beginning of lunchtime and finish at 2.05pm.  This means that students still have a chance to enjoy unstructured time outdoors.  

Here is our most recent timetable that is promoted in all classrooms.