Positive Education @ Anson

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

Each week students participate in PBL lessons to practise using positive behaviours in all areas of the school. There are whole-school behavioural expectations that apply across all areas as well as specific behavioural expectations that focus on areas such as the playground, gym, spa, hallways, bus travel and outings. Lessons are structured to include teaching, modelling, role play (practise), reflection and feedback. Lessons include social skills, social stories, rule reminders and self-reflection. The PBL focus forms the basis for new lessons.

The current PBL focus is:

Be Safe - keep your hands and feet to self

Students are encouraged to use their words, visuals and signs to express their wants, needs, actions and emotions. Keeping hands and feet to self allows everyone to learn and play safely.

PBL Stars:

Congratulations to these students who have been recognised by staff as respectful, responsible and safe role-models for their peers. Well done!

Julie Hudson

PBL Coordinator

Deputy Principal

Positive Wellbeing for Learning (PWL)

Why do we teach Kindness at school?

Scientific studies have shown that kindness has a great number of physical and emotional benefits, and that children require a healthy dose of the warm and fuzzies in order to flourish as healthy, happy, well-rounded individuals.

Patty O’Grady, PhD, is an expert in the area of neuroscience, emotional learning, and positive psychology with special attention to the educational arena. She believes that “kindness changes the brain by the experience of kindness. Children and adolescents do not learn kindness by only thinking about it and talking about it. Kindness is best learned by feeling it so that they can reproduce it. Kindness is an emotion that students feel and empathy is a strength that they share.”

There are many ways to show kindness, see if your family can complete some of the acts of kindness in this chart.

Jenny Rosser

Deputy Principal