PB4L VALUES

Our school has created a culture that encourages positive behaviours and interactions between all. Our approach is to teach students the positive behaviours we expect to see, to remind them to use these positive behaviours and to acknowledge student when they show these positive behaviours.

The restorative practice essentials are made up of three fundamental elements:

• Relational Approach.
• Effective Communication
• Restorative Conversations

The Relational approach recognises that people exist in a world of relationships and that a person’s character is developed through their relationships with others. The underlying principle is that all people are equally entitled to enjoy respect, care and dignity. It focuses on the ways in which we connect with others and how these connections value each person in a relationship.

Effective Communication supports schools to build positive and respectful relationships across the whole school community. The skills include effective questioning, listening, clarifying, summarising, and using language that students relate to.

Restorative Conversations are solution focused and they provide a best-practice to de-escalate and manage low level behavioural situations. The conversations appear informal and are grounded in a process of three essential phases – preparation, participation and follow-up. The conversation script held with students allows the student to tell her story, explore the harm, and repair the harm and to reach an agreement with planned follow is going.

We have championed the story of our Te Arawa ancestress TE AO Kapurangi and have woven her qualities into our PB4L (Positive Behaviour for Learning) expectations using the following acronym:

T = the willingness to LEARN (Resilience)

E = Engaging to ACHIEVE (Integrity)

A = Always shows RESPECT (Respect)

O = Offers to SERVE (Empathy)

Each term we focus on teaching and recognising one of these values. In Term 3 the TE AO value was: A = always shows RESPECT (Respect).

This looks like:

• · Positive greetings from students and staff
• · Using our manners
• · Putting devices away when not being used for learning
• · Keeping our school environment clean and tidy
• · Listening politely to others
• · Using polite language
• · Wearing our school uniform with pride

The BIG focus in this value is wearing our Uniform with Pride.

We welcome Yugeshwari Naidu to our Year 11 Dean position she replaces Whaea Felicity Kaiwai and Rikirae Hohepa to our Year 13 Dean position she replaces Whaea Trish Pike.

Late to School – whanau time begins at 8.40 am. If your child is late to school she needs to see Tracey Dender, our Attendance Officer in her office in B Block to gain a late pass to take to class.

Leave Pass – If your child needs a pass to leave school and with a note from their parent, she must organise this with the front office first thing in the morning and collect the pass to take to the class she will be leaving early from. This will then allow her to leave class.

Raewyn Krammer
Deputy Principal – Human Resources/Pastoral Care