The Pt England Way
[a positive, intentional values programme for Pt England School]
The Pt England Values are delivered via the Key Competencies and are thoroughly integrated with all curriculum and school life.
The values of the Pt England Way have been thoroughly discussed with the school community and developed over years. They are:
Learning
Hope
Service
Co-operation
Honesty
Respect
Responsibility
Caring
Joy
We believe these values easily cover the intent of the New Zealand Curriculum which encourages:
excellence
innovation, inquiry and curiosity
diversity
equity
participation
ecological sustainability
integrity
The values of the Pt England Way come under the expressed mission we have shared as a learning community for the last eighteen years:
"To work in partnership with our community to build a Path To Success for the children we share."
The Pt England Way is placed firmly under the kaupapa of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and seeks to honour and ensure the values of:
partnership
protection
participation
The Pt England Way is designed to make Pt England School and the Pt England Learning Community one of character where:
'We will be honest about our weaknesses and work to remediate them.
We will celebrate our successes.
We will have a priority commitment to Hope."
The Pt England Way is designed to make our school a safe and joyful learning community for all who are part of it. It emphasises and teaches how to behave rather than teaching against how not to behave as we have evidence that this is what works in our community.
The Pt England Way does include consequences and disciplinary measures where necessary but the intentional instruction is toward the desired behaviour.
We believe this approach successfully covers the Curriculum, Good Practice and Ministry requirements for programmes that:
develop healthy habits
develop positive behaviour
reduce substance abuse
eradicate bullying
reduce negative behaviour
1. Programme Delivery
3 of the nine values are embedded in the school culture and emphasised every year.
They are:
Learning
Hope
Joy
The other 6 values are each taught and emphasised for a year at a time so that by the end of a child's 6 years at Pt England, they have been exposed to each one intensively for a year. The other values get consolidated and maintained during each year.
Every Friday at School Assembly the 'Korero' for the week is presented by the principal and introduces or emphasises the aspect of the annual value or maintenance of one of the other values, that the staff have decided is timely or important.
These aspects are presented in a positive mode emphasising the desired behaviour or characteristic. Media used for this presentation include:
drama
movies
songs
stories
multimedia
Every Friday at School Assembly there is a quiz to see who can remember the values or aspects of the past weeks in the term. A weekly reward system acknowledges those who are noticed practicing the weekly virtue.
During the subsequent week the Korero is consolidated by teachers in classrooms, by playing an aspect of it on P.E.N.N. our daily television news service, by playing it weekly on schoolTV our weekly public broadcast, and by having students create digital work on the subject and publish it on the internet.
2. Programme Design
The Pt England Way or Fa'a Pt England is a responsive kaupapa that we develop over time. It is never finished and often is evolved to meet current needs. Within this design and change we have some constant parameters:
We identify desired behaviour
We agree on a 'saying' that everyone can use to identify and emphasise the desired behaviour
We agree on a school wide method for enculturing the behaviour
We integrate it with our Termly theme
We teach the desired behaviour throughout the term or the year
We model the desired behaviour all the time
We select appropriate media to deliver or emphasise the important idea (often these are songs we write)
Current Agreed Sayings:
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
Finish it off properly
Champions never give up
Are you in the zone?
Keep it real
Purua to Potae
4. Programme Resources:
We have an extensive bank of songs, movies, animations, slideshows etc. on our school network. Some of these were created by students, some by staff, some co-created.
Our Student Care & Management structure is a network of caring people, rather than a ‘steps’ system that locks us into particular punitive consequences for particular student actions or infringements.
Our School Rules are:
I must always be respectful towards other people.
I must keep my hands and my feet to myself
I 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.
Consistent practices:
These are things that will 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 that, if they are 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. It is not to lock the teacher in so that they must be applied on each & every occasion.
Consistency of Application:
1. Classroom Re-think
Place will be referred to as the ‘Thinking Corner’
This will have some kind of prompts/cue cards or Reflection form.
Time in this space must be followed up by reflection with the teacher.
2. Re-think in Another Room
Use the ‘Look of Horror’
Letter of apology to the class
Reflection with time out teacher & class teacher.
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
Weekly tidy class prize
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.
Key Competencies Current Focus
Teaching Student Behaviour:
Managing self
Relating to others
Participating and contributing
Collaboration
Relating to others
Participating and contributing
Thinking
Thinkers Keys
Using Language, Symbols and Texts
Reading & Writing, Speaking & Listening for a real Audience
Integrating Reading/Writing, Speaking/Listening with digital media
These are to be completely integrated into The Pt England Way
Communication
Participating in a Group
Global reasons for appropriate behaviour:
For everyone to be happy and safe
To have a successful life
Language for appropriate behaviour:
Using names properly
Using polite language; -words & body
Ideas for teaching behaviour:
Sharing Circle
Positive Statements
Thinking Activities
Scenarios
Short Cuts to Communication
Sports & Games
Role play/reinacting
Modelling appropriate behaviour
Talking frames
Complete integration with Speaking & Listening, Social Participation, Specific Behaviours
Personal Responsibility
Taking Charge
Language of Responsibility
I can
Take Charge
Contexts for Teaching Responsibility
My Things
My Learning
Classroom [My Class/My House]
People
School
Environment
Integration with Individual Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Specific Behaviours