Wellbeing

At our school, student wellbeing and learning go hand in hand. We want every student to feel safe, included and ready to learn. Whether your child needs help with their mental, emotional, social or physical wellbeing, we are here to help them thrive at school and in daily life.

How we support student wellbeing

Supporting each student’s mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing is part of everyday school life.

We do this through:

• teachers who help students feel welcome and included
• access to school counsellors, school psychologists and specialist staff
• programs that support health, social skills, attendance and positive behaviour
• help for students who are new or changing year levels
• clear expectations for behaviour and respectful relationships
• staff who get to know each child and work closely with families
• developing health care plans for students
• open communication about wellbeing and support.

Visit Our principal and staff to learn about our wellbeing and specialist support staff.

Positive Behaviour for learning

Positive Behaviour for Learning  (PBL) is a system of school wide processes and individualised instruction designed to prevent and decrease problem behaviour and to maintain appropriate behaviour. This process facilitates the development of quality learning environments in which all students will feel safe, secure and can flourish as individuals. Attention is focused on creating and sustaining primary (school-wide), secondary (specialised) and tertiary (individual) systems of support that makes problem behaviour less effective, less efficient, and less relevant and desired behaviour more functional.

Features of PBL

• Focus on prevention of problem behaviours.
• Appropriate student behaviour is explicitly taught.
• Positive behaviour is rewarded and acknowledged.
• Ongoing collection of data supports identification of school needs and assists decision making.
• School discipline systems are regularly reviewed.

Blaxland East Public School has implemented PBL as an integral part of its welfare and discipline systems.  PBL is a systems approach for establishing the social, cultural and behavioural supports needed for schools to be effective learning environments for all students.  PBL is a whole school system as it promotes clearly defined and explicitly taught behaviour expectations. School communities work together to form an agreement about behavioural expectations and then explicitly teach those expectations to the students. A number of PBL lesson plans covering appropriate behaviour on various school settings have been included in the appendix of this document. Blaxland East has developed the following school Core Values, incorporating the DET core values and school motto:

Be Respectful

Excellence Always

Participate Courageously

Serve Others

Our school Core Values highlight the student expected behaviours to provide safe, supportive and responsive learning environments for everyone. These expectations incorporate the DET Behaviour Code and Core Values. Our school community has developed agreed routines to explicitly teach students the expectations of our School Core Values to enable all students to be successful.

At Blaxland East Public School we use the following PBL Systems:

1. Free and Frequent Tokens

Our school PBL token is a called a Warin, which is Dharug for Rainbow Lorikeet. Our Warin is called Lori. When a child has been seen being respectful, demonstrating excellence, participating courageously or serving others in the playground areas of our school, they will be given a Lori. The child’s name will be written on the back, then placed in the class box. At assembly, a Lori will be drawn from each class. These students will receive a lolly pop.

Twice a term at our Aussie of the Month Assembly, there will be a Big Bucket winner from K-2 and 3-6. The lucky winner from each bucket will receive a $5 canteen voucher.

All of the Loris will then be placed in a combined school container. When this reaches an agreed level, the whole school will receive an award determined by the Student Representative Council, in conjunction with staff and the Principal.

2. Merit Certificates

Class merit certificates will be given out at K-2 and 3-6 assemblies. Children can also receive a merit certificate during Library, Fitness and other specialist lessons.

3. Bird Badges

Each child has a sticker/reward chart that is kept in their classroom. Class merit certificates come with 4 Blaxland East Public School stickers for the sticker charts, and specialist lessons merits receive 2 Blaxland East Public School stickers for the charts.  In 2025, we are discontinuing the Bird Awards (tawny frogmouth, kookaburra, bowerbird and cockatoo). Students will continue to complete their sticker chart and work towards receiving a Lorikeet certificate and a badge. For students in Years 1-6 in 2025, this includes a Rainbow, Green, Yellow, Red, Blue, Silver and Gold badge. Starting in 2025, Kindergarten students will begin with the following sequence: Green, Yellow, Blue, Red, Rainbow, Silver, and then Gold.

Example of  PBL sticker chart

4. Student Behaviour Management Process

A Student Behaviour Management Process has also been implemented. We have introduced yellow and red slips. Children are being taught during weekly PBL lessons the expected behaviours for playground and classroom settings. A yellow slip is classified as a minor behaviour and red slip as major behaviour.

Student Behaviour Management Process  (PDF 277KB)

All expected behaviours for our school are outlined on the Blaxland East Public School  PBL Expectations Teaching Matrix. Please familiarise yourselves with the expectations in all areas of our school. Our core values underpin the framework of PBL at Blaxland East Public School. All behaviours are taught explicitly and repeatedly throughout the year.

Distinguishing between minor and major infringements is a matter of teacher judgement. “Minor” behaviour infringements are generally first offences that do not seriously hurt other people or property. “Major” offences are repeated or continuous, intentional misbehaviour or deliberately hurting someone or damaging property.

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