What is it?
School Wide Positive Behaviour Support is a whole school framework for promoting and explicitly teaching appropriate and positive behaviours.

Teaching, modelling and reinforcing positive social behaviour is an important part of a student’s educational experience.

It is a proactive approach and focuses on teaching all students agreed expected behaviours and pro-social skills rather than just reacting to inappropriate behaviour.

In addition, a small number of students will require highly individualised and intensive interventions. These interventions are:

• planned by a transdisciplinary team
• function based
• student centred
• utilise strengths and interests
• aim to teach the student skills
• continuously evaluated and enhanced
• linked to the School Wide positive Behaviour Support approach.

Key components of SWPBS

• An agreed upon common approach.
• A matrix  of positively stated expectations.
• Explicit teaching of expectations.
• Regular and frequent opportunities to practise expected behaviours.
• Incentives/rewards for meeting behavioural expectations.
• Consistency of language.

Acknowledging students for positive behaviour that demonstrates our school values through:

• classroom reward systems: working towards specific activities
• school-wide reward systems: shop tickets, certificates/awards at whole school assemblies.