School Wide Positive Behaviour Support

Thank you to our Year 3/4 cohort of families, staff and students for trialling School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) this term. Your support has been invaluable.

We have received a great deal of positive feedback from families, and during our recent student forum, students shared overwhelmingly positive reflections on the impact SWPBS is having on both classroom and playground behaviours. It has been encouraging to see students developing a shared language and clearer understanding of expectations.

We are excited to continue this work and look forward to gradually rolling SWPBS out across the whole school in 2026. Please note that implementing SWPBS is a long-term process, typically taking around five years. We have made a strong start and will continue to share regular updates, so families are aware of our progress.

The SWPBS team will continue to engage in ongoing professional learning to ensure we are building a shared understanding and providing a consistent, high-quality rollout of SWPBS across the school. This professional learning supports staff to implement agreed practices with confidence and consistency.

Attached to this newsletter is a copy of our Behaviour Expectations Matrix. We encourage families to use this same language at home when acknowledging respectful, responsible and safe behaviours. Using consistent language across school and home helps reinforce positive behaviour and supports children to feel confident about what is expected of them.

In the first few weeks of 2026, all teachers will explicitly teach the expectations we are focusing on this term across all year levels. Research shows that when expectations are clearly taught and consistently reinforced, students feel more supported and experience lower levels of anxiety, as they know what to do and how to succeed in different settings. This shared approach helps create a safe, predictable and positive learning environment for all students to start 2026.

SWPBS will also be incorporated into our Respectful Relationships program. Together, these frameworks are integral to enhancing the educational experience and fostering healthy, respectful relationships among students. By aligning behaviour expectations with social and emotional learning, we are supporting students to develop the skills they need to thrive both at school and beyond.

Thank you for your ongoing support as we continue this important work together.