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Knox Park Primary School is committed to safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This will be the primary focus of our care and decision-making.
Knox Park Primary School is committed to safety and wellbeing of all children and young people. This will be the primary focus of our care and decision-making.
Knox Park Primary School is committed to providing a child safe environment where children and young people are safe and feel safe, and their voices are heard about decisions that affect their lives. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children and children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, as well as the safety of children with a disability.
Knox Park Primary School is committed to providing a child safe environment where children and young people are safe and feel safe, and their voices are heard about decisions that affect their lives. Particular attention will be paid to the cultural safety of Aboriginal children and children from culturally and/or linguistically diverse backgrounds, as well as the safety of children with a disability.
Every person involved in Knox Park Primary School has a responsibility to understand the important and specific role he/she plays individually and collectively to ensure that the wellbeing and safety of all children and young people is at the forefront of all they do and every decision they make.
Every person involved in Knox Park Primary School has a responsibility to understand the important and specific role he/she plays individually and collectively to ensure that the wellbeing and safety of all children and young people is at the forefront of all they do and every decision they make.
Acknowledgement of Country
Knox Park Primary School acknowledges the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which we gather, work, learn and play.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present.
KPPS Wellbeing Model
Our KPPS wellbeing model encapsulates the important connection between wellbeing and learning and our commitment to promote and allow opportunities for student voice, agency and leadership. The other components of the jigsaw puzzle demonstrate featured elements of our whole school approach.
Promoting Positive Behaviours
Token System
Our School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) values are to Be a Learner, Be Responsible, Be Respectful and Be Safe. All children can receive a Values Token for displaying any of the SWPBS values. In the junior school, these tokens are placed in a class jar. Once any value jar has 15 tokens in it, the class choose a whole class reward, as well as receiving a black token that contributes to a whole school reward.
Shared Agreements
From years 3-6 these tokens are placed in an individual jar that the children keep on their desks. Once a child receives 5, 10 or 15 tokens, they may choose an individual reward from a menu that was co-constructed by each class. Students in Years 5 and 6 can also receive white 'Leadership' tokens for displaying leadership traits. These individual rewards also contribute to the whole school reward.
Wellbeing Site
Our Teachers have developed a KPPS wellbeing site to show a child’s wellbeing journey throughout their Primary Schooling. Our purpose is the development of a whole school language around wellbeing. Each year the children explore concepts from the following 8 topics of the Respectful Relationships teaching and learning resources which include emotional literacy; personal strengths; positive coping; problem solving; stress management; help seeking; gender and identity and positive gender relations. Explicit lessons are also taught based on the positive behaviours around SWPBS to reinforce these skills.
Restorative Practices
Restorative practices assist with teaching our children about responsibility, accountability and empathy, while taking care of the relationships they build with others. This is a powerful and effective method of promoting harmonious relationships and resolving conflict. The ability to complete a restorative conversation is explicitly taught to children with teachers as the facilitators. Specific questions are asked through a non judgemental and open conversation with the goal to acknowledge how all parties have been affected. The goal is for all participants to agree on ways to move forward to ensure the behaviour doesn’t occur again.
Student Voice, Agency and Leadership
At Knox Park Primary School we endeavour to empower our children by providing opportunities for them to develop their voice, agency and leadership. Our goal is for leadership to be inherent within all learners, particularly our Year 6 children as they have an important role to set the positive tone for the school. Trust, autonomy and relationships are enhanced through the development of leadership qualities along with the commitment to our school wide positive behaviours of being responsible; safe, respectful and a learner.
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