PBL

At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) – a whole-school approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can learn and develop. Our whole school community works together to establish expected behaviours and teach them to all students.

Our school has three core behavioural values that all children are expected to follow:

• Be Safe

• Be Respectful

• Be a Learner

Blacktown South Public School students learn each week about one aspect of our school expectation matrix. These lessons focus on aspects of our playground and classroom expectations, the weekly lessons focus on topics such as:

• reporting problems to a teacher

• waiting your turn in class.

The students have loved learning how to be safe, respectful learners in the classroom and on the playground and we are excited to share more of our school positive behavioural learning with our parents and wider community in 2020.

Our school motto is 'Strive to Achieve' and everyone is encouraged to be the best they possibly can be in any given situation. Our students are recognised through the school's PBL reward system and work towards becoming shooting stars.

South Stars are handed out as recognition to students who are demonstrating that they are safe, respectful learners.

These South Stars are then collected and traded in for fun rewards!

Students can also earn Shooting Stars. When a student earns 10 Shooting Stars they earn their Bronze Award. From Bronze, students will then move through to collect their Silver, Gold, Sapphire and Star Pin Award.

Download the school expectation matrix (PDF 154KB) for further details about behaving properly at school, or view the class expectation matrix (PDF 98KB) for details about behaving properly in class.

Download a copy of our Anti Bullying Plan for details about how this is addressed at our school.