If a child doesn’t know how to read, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to spell, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to count, we teach. If a child doesn’t know how to behave, we . . .
Why can’t we finish the last sentence as automatically? Our school is a Positive Behaviour Support School. Behaviour is addressed in the same way as other curriculum areas. We have defined the behaviours we expect at KPS (see below). This is what we refer to, rather than a list of ‘school rules’.
Our focus areas are Care, Personal best and Responsibility, often referred to as CPR: The Heart of Our School. Each behaviour is taught to the students as a lesson, practised and reinforced through positive feedback and incentives like points and tokens.
Unexpected behaviours are managed in the same way as errors in other areas of learning, by correction and reteaching. A continuum of procedures to respond appropriately and consistently to unexpected behaviours from minor to major behaviours has been developed and identifies when intervention and appropriate consequences are required.
Good Standing at Karratha Primary
Good Standing is the standing students have during a school term that describes their behaviour status. All students receive two Good Standing points at the beginning of each term. These points indicate that students demonstrate school-wide expected behaviours most of the time and have not demonstrated violent, aggressive behaviour. A student loses Good Standing after a breach or serious breaches behaviour expectations.
Good Standing Process
At the beginning of each term all students will receive two Good Standing points. Students need to maintain a minimum of one Good Standing point in order to participate in the end of term reward and other non-curricula activities and events.
To maintain Good Standing, students need to:
- Comply with all school-wide behaviour expectations
Students will lose a Good Standing point for any of the following within the term:
- Suspension – 2 points
- Three or more office referrals – 1 point
- Withdrawal – 1 point
- Inappropriate behaviour whilst participating and representing the school in extra curricula activities and excursions – 1 point
Consequences of losing Good Standing:
- Students who have lost Good Standing are unable to participate in end of term rewards and other non-curricula activities and events.
- Parents/Carers are notified.
- If a student leader loses their Good Standing, they will relinquish their leader’s shirt and the right to represent Karratha Primary School for a period determined by the principal.
- Year 6 students who lose their Good Standing may jeopardise their participation in Year 6 Camp and Graduation.
Earning a good standing point back:
- Following loss of Good Standing, students must demonstrate school-wide behaviour expectations for a period of ten attended school days.
- Successful completion of this time will result in the reinstatement of one Good Standing point.
- When a student has zero points left and receives a consequence that results in the loss of an additional Good Standing point, a further five days is added onto the attended school days required before a Good Standing point is reinstated.
