Wellbeing

Evidence shows that teaching, recognising, acknowledging and rewarding positive behaviour helps reinforce these social skills and is an important step in our student’s education.

What is the purpose of SWPBS?

The purpose of SWPBS is to increase our student’s learning opportunities, and prevent or decrease problem behaviours. We can do this by all working as a team using problem solving strategies. We also can’t assume that students know these social skills so students must be explicitly taught the behaviours we want them to demonstrate.

What does SWPBS look like at Fleetwood Primary School?

All students will be explicitly taught the positive behaviours the school expects students to demonstrate (see Matrix below). This can be done during morning meetings, house time activities, assemblies and incidentally throughout each day.

• Staff teach the behaviours as they would teach academics or any other skill.
• Staff talk about the expected behaviours and discuss why it is important.
• Staff demonstrate and model the social skills.
• Staff acknowledge, pre correct, supervise and provide positive feedback.
• Staff reflect on what they need to change to ensure the student is successful?

Behaviour Expectation Matrix

The Matrix translates our CORE values (Responsible, Safe and Respectful) into behaviours being taught.

It is displayed in each classroom around the school and is referred to and discussed regularly with students.

How can families help?

Teaching behaviours that we expect to see works best when there is a consistency across home and school settings.

SWPBS is an approach to help all students learn to self-manage behaviour. Family involvement is a key feature and important in all aspects of SWPBS. A strong partnership between school and family is important because when families are involved, outcomes for students are better.

You can be involved in SWPBS in many ways;

• read materials offered by the school through compass and various school communications
• make yourself familiar with the Matrix – perhaps put it on your fridge for easy reference?
• teach behaviour expectations to your children, use and reinforce SWPBS strategies at home for example:

1. Teach your child what behaviour you want to see
2. Verbally acknowledge and recognise when they meet the expected behaviour
3. Respond consistently and with meaningful consequences when problem behaviour occurs

What is the purpose of Morning Meetings?

The purpose is to provide children with opportunities to check-in with their emotional state by labelling or naming feelings. Establishing this psychological safety and trust among children and staff a crucial process of the meetings. There is also plenty of opportunity for children to express their views, opinions and passions. Social skills are also explicitly taught in these meetings, especially in the junior school. Overall a Morning Meeting creates a classroom culture where children feel safe, supported and ready to learn.

What do Morning Meetings look like at Fleetwood Primary School?

All meetings include some variation of the following:

• Greeting – Children and teachers greet and welcome each other.
• Sharing – Children share something about themselves or their lives, and the rest of their peers listen, then follow-up questions or offer comments.
• Activity – The class completes an activity that encourages teamwork while re-emphasising social or academic skills.
• Morning message – Children read or listen to a short message from their teacher, usually describing what is to come in the day ahead.