Student Care and Management @ Pt England School
What is best for the children?
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Partnership Protection Participation
What is best for the children? is the question always asked when Staff and Management consider options at Pt England School.
The BOT and Management of Pt England School actively promote the 3 P's of the Treaty of Waitangi in many ways; one of which is
the Student Care and Management Programme.
Mrs Toni Nua and Ms Jody Wild have the responsibility of making home visits when necessary to help students and whanau to solve a
wide range of health and welfare issues or just give moral support. The reasons for home visits are wide ranging covering such things as:
family bereavement, health of students or whanau, finance, food, social/emotional problems, attendance, friendship. These teachers are
released from class for 1/2 a day per week to follow up referrals given to them by staff, Special Needs Committee, School Management and
requests from children,. This programme is into it's 3rd year and has proved extremely beneficial to the school community.
The visiting teachers are well known by the parents and a strong element of trust has built up over the years.
Notes are kept on a google doc and only shared with those involved. Mrs Nua and Ms Wild communicate effectively with staff to ensure that
they are kept informed about their students.
The Special Needs Committee
The Special Needs Committee meets twice a term and consists of the Principal, both Associate Principal's, all 5 Team Leaders, Ms Wild,
and other interested participants such as a Tamaki Community Trust representative, the Public Health Nurse, Police and Specialists.
Students are referred to the committee, discussed and plans are made for their learning, health, social/emotional wellbeing as appropriate
and further referrals are made if necessary. Student Care and Management teachers give feedback on their visits and accept referrals.
The meetings are Chaired by Mrs Jarman and Ms Wild or Mrs Nua take full Minutes which are stored on google docs.
SWIS
2014 is the second year a Social Worker in Schools has been working full time at Pt England. The SWIS has become a very valuable asset
to the school community helping families in a different way from the Care and Management Team. Parents call in and ask for support with
a wide variety of needs. The SWIS has the knowledge and mandate to contact agencies and professionals, as appropriate, for the parents.
The SWIS also runs social skills groups and take an active role in supporting individual students socially and emotionally. Many students have approached him unprompted seeking support.
Counsellors
Pt England has access to several Counselors for students. Glen Innes Family Centre and Tamaki Community Trust are the main groups used.
Tamaki Community Trust Counselors work with the student while their social workers work alongside the families taking a holistic approach.
This has proved to be of great benefit to many students and their families over the last 10 years.
The Following Systems are in place for Student Care and Management at School that support the Values Programme.
Our School Rules are:
I will always be respectful towards other people
I will keep my hands and my feet to myself
I respect school property and the property of other people
I will leave my toys and gum at home
I will ask permission from the office before I leave the school grounds
I will play in the correct places and stay outside at interval and lunchtime on fine days
I will be a good friend to others and have a good attitude when I’m working or playing
I will always eat healthy food at school
Just as we have worked to develop a consistent pedagogy in the Thematic delivery of our Learning 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 school wide methods for helping maintain consistent behaviour in our school. These are:
Classroom Volume Indicators
Stop, Look, Listen
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 in the right place
Right time, Right Place, Right Attitude
Be Kind to Visitors
These are all taught and practiced during ‘The Pt. England Way’.
During 2005 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. Although reviewed yearly these practices have only had minor modifications made to them. The biggest focus is being consistent.
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.
1. Classroom Time-Out
We will all use the ‘Stop, Think & Do’ form
Place will be referred to as the ‘Thinking Corner’
Time-Out must be followed up by reflection with the teacher.
2. Time-Out in Another Room
Use the ‘Look of Horror’
Letter of apology to the class
Reflection with time out teacher & class teacher.
3. General Behaviour
We will all insist on politeness; please, thank-you, excuse me, titles, polite language to strangers.
4. Corridor Travel
Lunchtime - No one
Classtime - Corridor Pass
5. Inside Classrooms
Only when teacher is present
6 .Computers
Only when teacher is present
7. Rubbish
Clean-up after morning Tea and lunch. Monitors only, -no more than 5 mins
Make offenders clean up
House Captains to help enforce
8. Friendly, kind behaviour
We will all work to reduce the culture of inappropriate challenge.
9. The Pt. England Way
We will all use this phrase to discuss appropriate and inappropriate behaviour.
School Detention
School Detention is a consequence for challenging or inappropriate behaviour outside the classroom and is supervised by Mrs Jarman.
Teachers/Support staff make a decision to place a student on detention they feel that is an appropriate consequence for the behaviour.
The event is entered onto a google doc recording all relevant information. Staff will often discuss their referral before detention takes place.
Students are called to the Library at 1.10pm. The following process occurs:
1. Students are asked:
What rule did you break?
Why did that happen?
What could you have done instead?
What can you do to make it better?
These questions are discussed with the student.
2. When the student and teacher have decided on an appropriate action is carried out.
Consequences may include:
Meeting with the interested parties/victim
Apologies - written or oral
Work around the school - fixing/cleaning the damage as appropriate
Writing out the relevant school rules
Writing a letter of explanation
Time out of the playground
Letter to parents
Meet with parents (at school or home)
Meet with the Principal
3. Mrs Jarman will discuss the issue with the Team if the student is referred more than 3 times or the behaviour increases or becomes a more serious
concern. Behaviour plans will be put in place after discussion with the Team and further referrals may be made to Special Needs Committee, RTLB,
or Specialists as appropriate. Google docs are kept on some individual students to keep a record of behaviour to help identify patterns or trends.