Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)

PBS Update
Our Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) program continues to evolve and influence the way we approach ‘managing student behaviour’ at Caralee.

Our agreed core values are:
Being Responsible, Respectful and always being our Best, and these were reached by consensus through a thorough and consultative process.

A set of expected behaviours has been defined and scheduled to be explicitly taught across the school year, and are reinforced through our popular TED values program. We have also incorporated a Departmentally directed ‘Good Standing’ policy. All students retain a status of ‘good standing’ until they receive three detentions in a five-week period.

Losing good standing will result in exclusion from school and class rewards and/or other school events such as inter-school competitions and visiting incursions. Each case will be considered individually and may be managed at the discretion of the principal.

Assessments
On our School Development Day, our staff revisited a writing assessment tool called Brightpath. Our core business of school improvement is driven by the ongoing collection and analysis of student performance data, which Brightpath delivers in a very useable way.

Current longitudinal data in writing shows that Caralee students are achieving high performance and high progress, which is a credit to our teaching staff. In order to maintain and further improve this, Brightpath provides teachers and students with two critical areas of feedback –  what students did well in, and what they need to do to increase their score.

Feedback may include 5-10 points that incorporate spelling and grammar, punctuation writing conventions and authorial creativity. In Years 4 to 6, the writing process simulates the NAPLAN on line submissions which simulates NAPLAN conditions, and streamlines the marking process for teachers.