Student Wellbeing

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support is an approach being introduced to help teach our students improved social and communication skills. These are based on Lucknow Primary School’s core values of Respect, Inclusiveness and Resilience.
Evidence shows that teaching, recognising, acknowledging and rewarding positive behaviour helps reinforce these social skills and is an important step in our student’s education. We also know that social and communication skills are learnt, and each child will learn these abilities at their own pace.

A school-wide positive behaviour support framework helps to ensure teachers and students have more time to focus on relationships and classroom instruction. Students and staff benefit from:

• increased respectful and positive behaviour
• increased time focused on instruction
• improved social-emotional wellbeing
• positive and respectful relationships among students and staff
• increased adoption of evidence-based instructional practices
• a predictable learning environment with improved perceptions of safety and increased attendance

Lucknow Primary School has a clearly defined set of expected behaviours

Positive Behaviour Expectations

Students as Learners

Lucknow Primary School is committed to providing a safe, secure and stimulating learning environment for all students. We understand that students reach their full potential only when they are happy, healthy and safe, and that a positive school culture helps to engage students and support them in their learning. Our school acknowledges that student wellbeing and student learning outcomes are closely linked.

Our Learn to Learn @ Lucknow initiative, a program that runs for the first few weeks of the year, aims to develop a supportive and challenging classroom culture where the classroom is resourceful and expectations are consistent throughout the school.

The establishment phase of the year is crucial to the positive, working, relationship of teacher and students alike. It is important to remember that we are working with natural student readiness; students expect us to clarify routines, rules, procedures. We need to positively engage and focus on readiness and expectation.
(Rogers, 2015)

Students engage in a variety of tasks to develop and strengthen strategies that will assist them with their learning throughout the year. They will also experience both challenges and successes, whilst learning that challenges help us to grow too. Developing a growth mindset, self acceptance, risk taking, mutual respect, increasing independence and thinking first are key aspects of classroom lessons and discussions throughout the year.

Support

We have a student counsellor who works closely with staff, students and parents to guide and support wellbeing. We also have access to a number of outside programs to enhance outcomes for student wellbeing.