The safety and wellbeing of all members of our school community is paramount. We endeavour to maintain a calm, gentle and respectful school environment, which allows learning to take place in the best possible circumstances. We expect our students to allow their teachers to teach and their classmates to learn. We acknowledge the power of affirmation with our students and seek ways to encourage them to meet expectations and thrive as enthusiastic and motivated learners .
At St. Paul’s Primary School the values of love, respect, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, repentance, reconciliation and justice, are foundational to who we are and how we are. These core values are at the heart of the way in which we promote school-wide positive behaviour.
School expectations and consequences are in place to ensure safety, to point out inappropriate behaviour, to guide students to more appropriate behaviours, to restore relationships and to enable personal growth.
St. Paul’s has a student engagement team consisting of a Learning Diversity Leader, Student Wellbeing Leader and a MHips Leader (Mental Health in Primary Schools).
We are a Positive Behaviour for Learning School (PBL) that provides a framework to help St. Paul’s plan and implement practices across the whole school to improve educational and behavioural outcomes for all students.
Our school has a personalised list of always expectations which are promoted each school day.
Our Always Expectations are:
- Be a kind and good friend
- Treat people the way you would like to be treated
- Be respectful to others and their property
- Follow all instructions
- Use your manners
- Have a GO and try your best
- Listen carefully to and track the speaker
- Be a role model and help others
- Take pride in your school
We are also apart of the Respectful Relationships initiative run by MACS where our staff are being trained to successfully implement the Respectful Relationships program.
St. Paul’s has a variety of programs and personnel in place to ensure the wellbeing of all members of our learning community, including:
- An onsight school psychologist
- An onsight speech pathologist
- Specific support programs for students-at-risk including Canine Comprehension, A Sensory Pod, Kimochis for Junior Levels.
