School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)
SWPBS is a framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures. SWPBS assists us in improving the emotional, behavioural, and academic outcomes of our students. Through the SWPBS framework, we have identified our school’s needs and responded by developing our new school values and clear positive behaviour expectations within the different school areas. Evidence shows that teaching, recognising, acknowledging, and rewarding positive behaviour reinforces positive social skills and is an important step in our student’s education.
At Hillsmeade, we began our SWPBS journey in 2023.
Throughout this journey, we have so far:
- Assigned a SWPBS leader – Sophie Strickland.
- Created an SWPBS team, who have all completed the Universal Prevention Part A training (all relevant modules of the SWPBS process)
- Developed our new school values of Kindness, Respect & Resilience. In consultation with students, staff & the wider community.
- We implemented the values across the school with specific lessons & teaching.
- An indigenous artist designed new values artwork in consultation with the school.
- Developed our new matrix of expected behaviours. In consultation with staff & students and relevant student leaders, identifying positive behaviours across our school in line with our new school values.
- Expected behaviours are taught across the school, during positive starts, and in every classroom on a daily basis.
- Developed our new Hillsmeade actions, a classroom process of recognising positive behaviours in the classroom in line with our school values & matrix of expected behaviours.
Our next steps will include:
- Developing a whole school rewards system aligns with our values & house system.
- Updating our school vision/mission statement.
