Positive Behaviour For Learning (PB4L)

In 2017, our school embarked on our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) journey. PB4L School-Wide looks at behaviour and learning from a whole-of-school as well as an individual child perspective. The framework is based on international evidence, and aims to support schools to build a culture where positive behaviour and learning is a way of life. The programme is implemented over a three-to-five-year period, in which we will have access to staff training and ongoing support for PB4L School-wide coaches and teams. Over that time, we are aiming to see:

• an increase in desired behaviours

• fewer incidents of inappropriate behaviour

• teachers spending more time teaching

• students more engaged and achieving.

Our first step as a school was to establish a PB4L team that included representatives from across the school community. We then looked closely at our school values. After consultation with students, whānau and teachers, we made changes to our values so that they truly reflected the attitudes and attributes that we, as a school community, think are most important and that we expect of ourselves and our tamariki. 

We then began to look at creating Behaviour Matrices through the use of our school values that would help remind tamariki of the expected behaviours in different contexts, i.e. in the classroom, at assembly, on the playground, etc. 

We are currently working on:

• gathering information about behaviour

• identifying and setting behaviour expectations

• teaching behaviour in the same way as other curriculum subjects 

• establishing systems for recognising and acknowledging expected behaviour

• establishing systems for responding to inappropriate behaviour

SHINE Team 

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SHINE VALUES