Parent Reminders

• When collecting students’ early, parents and carers are asked to remain in the office to wait for their child/ren or if approaching the classroom they are to wait outside the room. Classroom learning is always paramount and the disruption to this environment is to be reduced as much as possible to ensure maximum learning is achieved.
• If a classroom is unattended parents/carers and students are not permitted to enter at any time without expressed permission by the classroom teacher.
• Parents and carers are to wait below the astro-turf in front of the Year 1 and 2 classrooms to ensure the safe dismissal of students in the afternoon. This was discussed at the Stage 1 parent information sessions as a duty of care concern for our teachers safely dismissing students with a clear line of sight.

We thank our community for supporting these efforts.

Positive Behaviours for Learning

Positive Behaviours for Learning (PB₄L) is an organisational framework for behaviour support to enhance respectful relationships and engagement of students in their learning. It is an evidence-based framework that is implemented across Kindergarten to Year Six.

The PB₄L Framework includes: 

• Improving and maintaining the social climate of the school by reducing problem behaviours, whilst increasing prosocial behaviours and respectful relationships;
• Promoting the social and emotional skills students need to be successful in life; 
• Supporting and enhancing the learning and teaching environment, and engagement of students to improve student learning outcomes; 
• Increasing a proactive approach and reducing a reactive response to problem behaviours through a continuum of support.

Identifying Problem Behaviour

LOWS: Students who are exhibiting low level behaviour such as calling out and are not responding to prompts to re-direct will receive a Minor. Three Minors in a term will involve parents being contacted by the Stage Leader and booster lessons implemented to support the identified behavior

HIGHS: A high-level behaviour, with impact and intent i.e., foul language, aggressive physical behaviour will lead to parent contact, continued patterns of high-level behaviour will lead to the development of an individualised Behaviour Plan and activation of the suspension policy, if appropriate.

At St Pius X our behaviour data is reviewed weekly by the Leadership Team. We pride ourselves on dealing with issues promptly and proactively. The safety and well-being of the students is our absolute priority.