Your Child's Wellbeing

Students are active participants in their own learning and wellbeing, feel connected and use their social and emotional skills to be respectful, resilient and safe. We understand that students reach their full potential only when they are happy, healthy and safe. We assess, design, implement, review and promote evidence based wellbeing initiatives. This work builds consistent best practice at TPS. We work closely with families, community and allied health professionals.

I Am Deadly - Marramb-ik Deadly

School - wide positive behaviour support (SWPBS) is a framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures.

We use our community language of "Deadly" to explain our high expectations. If you are "Deadly" at TPS you are highly regarded.

Students, staff and members of our school community are encouraged to live and demonstrate our Deadly values of Respect, Trust, Working Together, Integrity and Perseverance at every opportunity.

Bully Prevention - Stop (barra), Walk (yana), Talk (dhumba)

Our community and students define bullying as:

"Bullying is picking on someone repetitively, in a physical, verbal or psychological way. It’s about having power over someone else. Bullying can be sexist, racist or because of other differences. It can happen online, at school, outside of school or anywhere. It doesn’t just affect children, it happens to adults too. It makes the other person feel unsafe. It usually doesn’t happen around teachers or other adults. Bullying affects everyone, the person bullying needs help, the person being bullied needs help and the people who may see the bullying need help."

Bullying will not be tolerated at Thornbury Primary School. We take all reports of Bullying seriously using our Bully Prevention policy and Stop Walk Talk. Stop Walk Talk consists of teaching students to use 3 simple and progressive steps: Indicating through words and gesture to stop, walking away if the problem continues, and finally talking to an adult if the issue is not resolved.

Reflection

We recognise and respect our students Balit Nurrun (Strong Spirit). On the occasions where students are unable to meet the schools behavioural expectations or regulate emotions there are formal and sequential responses for each situation. Our staff will respond in a calm, consistent, brief, immediate and respectful manner.

All responses to behaviour are premised by first understanding the function of the behaviour and how to respond respectfully. They are seen as learning experiences for students to understand the impact of behaviour on themselves and others. All staff aim to re-teach more positive coping strategies and skills to communicate effectively.

Buddies

We take care of our Mob at TPS. Buddies are established in Term one for the foundation students to have a Year 4 Buddy. We align Steiner Foundation students with Class Four.

Our buddy system helps Foundation students to feel valued and supported, teach important social skills and create a caring ethos in our school.

Working with Parents/Carers

We value the input of our community and we strive to support our community to engage in their child's learning and build their capacity as active learners. We assist families to support and promote mental health and wellbeing. We regularly communicate to families through Compass.

Respectful Relationships

Respectful Relationships supports schools and early childhood settings to promote and model respect, positive attitudes and behaviours. It teaches our children how to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. The Respectful Relationships curriculum is taught from Foundation to Year Six.

Zone of Regulations

The Zones is a systematic, cognitive behavioural approach used to teach us all to self-regulate our needs as well as our emotions and impulses in order to meet the demands of the environment and be successful socially.

This program categorises emotions into four colours - Blue (sad, tired), Green (Ready for learning), Yellow (excited, nervous), Red (Mad, angry). The students then identify tools that they can use to move back to feeling green.

Find my 5

We take care of our mob and if we have a problem I speak to a teacher. To help students identify their helpers at school and at home we use "Find my 5" where children name 5 people (using their hand as a template) that they feel that they can ask for support.

Cultural Safety

Cultural safety is about creating an environment that is safe for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This means there is no assault, challenge or denial of their identity and experience. Cultural safety is about: Shared respect, shared meaning and shared knowledge.

Safe School

We are a proud to be a Safe School. Safe Schools ensure schools are safe places for all students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) students, and are free of discrimination. We demonstrate our deadly value "I am proud of who I am and I respect your story".

Child Safety Standards

Thornbury Primary School is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people and comply with the Child Safety Standards. Our Child Safety officer is Emma Cornish-Giles (Wellbeing Leader). Staff, Students, Carers and Members of our community are encouraged to speak with Emma regarding any concerns in relation to a child.

Safeminds

Our staff are trained in SAFEMinds to them identify children with early signs of mental health issues, and offer them school-based interventions and/or external referrals.

School Nursing Program

All foundation students will be sent a pack from our School Nurse Program. We encourage every family to return this and participate in the program. School nurses specialise in nursing that advances the well being, and primary healthcare of students and staff within a school community. School nurses facilitate positive student responses to normal development, promote health and safety, intervene with actual or potential health problems and provide case management services.

eSafety

We utilise digital technologies to support student learning across the curriculum. All members of our learning community are expected to be responsible, safe and ethical users of digital technologies. Our students, staff and community are regularly provided training opportunities for training in eSafety. This learning and empowerment is based on the eSafety modules BeSafe, BeKind, BeCurious, BeSecure. All students annually sign the TPS Deadly ICT Agreement for Responsible, Safe and Ethical use of technology at TPS.

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Issue 2021 · 22 Oct 2020

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