SWPBS Update

Assistant Principal

Xavier McLaurin

The School Wide Positive Behaviour Framework is our whole school approach to creating safe and orderly learning environment. It is a world renowned best practice system that the Department of Education endorses stating that " School-wide positive behaviour support (SWPBS) is a framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures".

In our last newsletter we discussed Safe and Orderly process. In this newsletter we will be highlighting the in-class processes for managing negative behaviours which was a focus of improvement at the Curriculum Day held towards the end of Term 2.

Teaching staff manage this behaviour via our Behaviour Response Continuum. This process is shown below and gives students and teachers the roadmap for creating predictable responses to negative behaviour from students. This process was created five years ago in consultation with students, staff, parents/carers and is reviewed yearly to create a consistent and robust model of practice for behaviour support.

In the coming newsletters we will highlight more elements of the processes we have put in place to create safe and orderly learning environments at Western Port Secondary College. Please click on the image below to see our classroom practice