Positive Behaviour for Learning

Every child has the right to learn and every teacher has the right to teach. 

        Lesson Plan: School Expectations; Safety

Step 1: List Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

We are learning to :

• Explain what safe behaviour looks like
• Show safe behaviour in different school settings
• Identify unsafe behaviours and suggest safer choices
• Explain why safety helps everyone learn.

It will look like:

• Keeping our hands and feet to ourselves
• Moving around the school calmly, walking if in a walking zone
• Keeping left when walking in the corridors or stairs 
• Reporting things that are unsafe (people or things)

Step 2:  List a rationale for teaching the behaviour 

Why is it important?

Holy Rosary School Values: 

Relationships, Respect, Resilience, Integrity, Kindness.

Holy Rosary School Expectations: 

Safety is our right. Learning is our responsibility. Respect is our way. 

Step 3:  Identify examples and non-examples of the desired behaviour

 What would the behaviour look/sound like?                      

Examples

Using resources as intended

Carefully placing bags in lockers

Using toilets responsibly

Using exit passes before leaving a space

Sitting down when eating 

Moving to the line calmly when the bell rings

Lining up in alphabetical order

Walking bike/scooter on school grounds

Keeping hands, feet and objects to self

Moving safely and calmly at all times

Reporting safety concerns

What would the behaviour not look/sound like?

Non-examples

Leaving resources, equipment or devices on the floor

Hitting, kicking, pushing

Walking around when eating 

Running down the ramp to the playground

Leaving toilet paper on the floor or playing with soap in the toilets

Riding bikes or scooters across the yard at the end of the day

Playing ball games, other than downball, in the mornings before school

Arriving at school before 8.30am.