SWPBS Update

Behaviour Response Continuum

Matthew Bodley, Andrew Rayment and Tate Hopkinson

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 how staff acknowledge and reward positive behaviour. In this newsletter we will be highlighting the in-class process for managing negative behaviours.

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 has been reviewed yearly to create an excellent 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