Hi I am Marie Van Kleef, I am Arnika, Chelsee and Caleb's mum. We have been part of the Main school community for 5yrs. I joined the PB4L team a few years ago so I could get a better understanding of what it actually is and since being part of the team it has helped me understand so much more! POSITIVE, BEHAVIOUR, FOR LEARNING It is a positive way for school to help our Tamariki learn, by recognising and rewarding positive behaviours, rather than constantly punishing kids and focusing on the bad. So from a Parents point of view, we have PB4L wrist bands which are awarded to students who have really shown our school values of Think, Care and Achieve. These are, ‘Free and Frequent’ throughout the day, which is why you’ll see students with lots of red, yellow and blue bands around their wrists, given out by staff and by the student PB4L Team. We also have black bands which are awarded at assemblies for students who go above and beyond to demonstrate what our school values are, Think, Care and Achieve (ourselves, others, learning, environment, school) We have a traffic lights system in our classrooms. All children start the day on the green light and can be moved to orange for continual negative behaviour, and red if the behaviour doesn’t improve, with clear consequences for minor and major behaviours. The Tamariki really try to stay on the green light as they know it’s good! I Love being apart of the team and we are always looking at improving our PB4L for the students and checking stats to see if the systems we have in place are working. Marie