School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support

At Garfield Primary School our values and behaviour management falls under the banner of “Aim for the Stars”.

Our values are:

I AM SAFE, I AM RESPECTFUL, I AM RESILIENT, I AM A LEARNER

                                                                                     
​‘Aim for the Stars’ is based upon a framework known as the School Wide Positive Behaviour System (SWPBS) which has been researched by experts in behaviour.  SWPBS is a whole-school framework which helps schools to create positive learning environments. As a school (staff, students, parents and school council) we have developed our framework based on some underlying ideas. These are:

• Recognising, acknowledging and celebrating positive behaviours
• Prevention of problem behaviours by:
• Teaching students the skills to be safe, respectful and a learner
• Documenting problem behaviours, recording this as data and using the data to identify areas we need to build on
• Implementing consistent and agreed upon consequences for problem behaviours, which are also documented and communicated as required with home.

A series of videos have been created to explain to our community what our SWPBS framework looks like in action and they can be viewed here.