School Values & School Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS)

Our core value statement: Respectful Positive Learners underpins all that we do.

School Values

Our core value statement: Respectful Positive Learners underpins all that we do.

We celebrate the efforts of our students, their passions and their achievements. We recognize that students bring different knowledge and life experiences to new learning. We strive to develop socially responsible individuals and foster a community of life-learners.

CPS Statement of Values

Our Statement of Values acknowledges that parents and school staff are strongly motivated to do their best for every child. Everyone has the right to differing opinions and views and to raise concerns, as long as we do this respectfully as a community working together. It sets out our behavioural expectations of all members in this school community, including the principal, all school staff, parents, students and visitors.

You can download the CPS Statement of School Values here.

School Wide Positive Behavior Support(SWPBS)

The framework of School Wide Positive Behaviour Support with the purpose of establishing a safe, supportive and positive learning environment is implemented throughout our school.

Churchill Primary promotes a continuous focus on the codes of behavior with a strategy supporting respect for others and learning in our classrooms. All students are taught that bullying and disrespectful attitudes and behaviours are not accepted at school. Instead we encourage a positive attitude where we look out for one another in a supportive way that is explicitly taught to all.

Staff at Churchill Primary, using our framework of Positive Behaviour Support, look at social behavioural error as similar to learning errors to help us be professional and objective in our responses. As a SWPBS school, we aim to provide a consistent, predictable and fair use of consequences for all, using similar language that children understand.

When students do not follow the agreed CPS Code of Conduct and behaviour expectations, staff follow these SWPBS guidelines in dealing with incidents:

BE CALM - Use a composed voice tone and volume.
BE CONSISTENT - Respond the same way to all children who display minor behavioural mistakes.
BE BRIEF - Short and meaningful responses are best to redirect behaviour.
BE IMMEDIATE - Respond quickly after a mistake is made.
BE RESPECTFUL - A polite response is better, free of put downs or threats.
BE SPECIFIC - Tell the child exactly what they are doing is wrong and what you want them to do instead.