Be safe, respectful and Responsible -
Coming back to school...

As the students are returning to school after our 2 week holidays, we will be focussing on re-establishing strong routines within the classrooms and across the playgrounds. This will help to maintain an environment that is conducive to learning.

Teachers will take the time to revisit and re-teach the classroom and playground routines and expectations to the students.

Students will continue to unpack the weekly target and then journal on something that was positive for them during their school week. 

The target that we are focusing on for the first two weeks is ‘At St Paul's, we are respectful’.  This is done by:

• Practising the classroom expectations matrix - these are respectful behaviours
• Role playing respectful behaviours in the classroom and on the playground
• Looking and listening to the person who is speaking 
• Using kind words and good manners
• Raise your hand to speak
• Don’t talk back to the teacher
• Discussing consequences of not being respectful in the classroom and on the playground
• Praising students who are being respectful.
• Redirecting students in the classroom who are not showing respect and explaining why this is. Tell them the correct choice of behaviour to display next time. For example, a student is running in the classroom. Say to the child: ‘This is not respectful because… . You need to…
• Giving tokens to students on the playground who are respectful.
• Following the classroom/playground correction sequence for students who are not following the target.