POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING

Teachers have almost set up the Bridge Builders online learning program.  There will be some explicit teaching around the lessons in class time with follow-up in homework time.  I have heard a number of stories where families have adopted the language and strategies with great success.  Spending time with your child as they work through the follow-up learning really helps set them up with successful conflict resolution skills.

Last Friday, interested students undertook training in Peer Mediation.  It is a big day of some revision but also new learning as the seniors learn how to assist our young students to resolve their conflict.   Peer mediators only deal with the small conflict.  If it involves physical or more serious issues, they will alert the teacher on duty.

The team revised the Rules Matrix at Monday’s meeting.  The updated version will be in classrooms and on the website by next week.

We also downloaded our minor behaviour records for the first 4 weeks of school.  The idea is that if we can identify some ‘hot spots’ early, we can proactively implement strategies to further reduce further, and perhaps major, misdemeanours.

On assembly, we revised the expectations around play and eating areas as outlined in the Rules matrix.  Year 2/3 covered play area is our exemplar!