Managing Behaviour

STUDENT CARE & MANAGEMENT

As noted in other documentation the basis of our Student Care & Management is more a network of caring people, rather than a ‘steps’ system that locks us into particular punitive consequences for particular student actions or infringements.

Another foundation of our Student Care & Management is a notion of Values that underpins all that the school is trying to achieve. These values form a basis for how we interact with each other as staff, how we view success for our children and families and provide a platform for our first Teaching Unit of every year. -’The Pt. England Way’.

From these values an emphasis or priority is chosen annually and then aspects of this emphasis are presented at assembly each week. P.E.N.N. is used to consolidate and reinforce this aspect during the subsequent week. Teachers then continue to emphasise and consolidate these in their classrooms.

The values we have selected are:

• Learning

• Hope

• Service

• Co-operation

• Honesty

• Respect

• Responsibility

• Caring

• Joy

Our Values Theme for 2017 is Responsibility

Our slogan is 'Kaitiakitanga i nga wa katoa'

Our School Rules are:

• I must always be respectful towards other people

• I must keep my hands and my feet to myself

• I must respect school property and the property of other people

• I must leave my toys, gaming devices and gum at home

• I must ask permission and sign out from the office before I leave the school grounds

• I must play in the correct places and stay outside at interval and lunchtime on fine days

• I must be Cybersmart and use my device responsibly

Just as we have worked to develop a consistent pedagogy in the Thematic delivery of our Topic areas, and then subsequently our micro-teaching approach for the delivery of Foundational skills, knowledge & understanding in Literacy & Numeracy, so we have worked to develop greater consistency in the way we care for and manage our students.

We have agreed on certain schoolwide methods for helping maintain consistent behaviour in our school. These are:

• Classroom Volume Indicators as appropriate

• Stop, Look, Listen/ Eyes on Me

• Stop, Think & Do

• Use your W.I.T.S.

• Go Round the Outside

• Wear it with Pride

• Walk in Line

• Bin It

• Be kind to visitors

• Play the right way

• Right time, right place, right attitude

• Champions never give up

• Purua to Potae

These are all taught and practiced during ‘The Pt. England Way’.

During 2015 we met as a staff and then as Management Team to discuss further consistent practices that would help us as teachers and help our students behave well, whilst retaining a warm positive environment. The idea behind the proposal of these consistent practices, is not to lock the teacher in so that they must be applied on each & every occasion, but so that if by and large applied consistently across the year levels, as children move up through the school they will have become accustomed to and successful in these expectations.

Challenging behaviour in the classroom:

Please note; we have no wish to specify types of behaviour which precipitate this process. Key indicators would be preventing others learning and direct disobedience of the teacher.

Please also note; we have only stood down one child in the last ten years so we would expect in almost every case, that this chain of action when surrounded by a network of support, should be successful.