School Wide Student Behaviour Support and Inclusive Education

Reservoir West Primary School is committed to the implementation of a whole school approach to Inclusive Education and Student Behaviour Support for engagement and learning. Our Student Behaviour Support approach integrates the Multi-Tiered System of Support framework[1], School-wide Positive Behaviour Support[2], Restorative practice[3], and the Effective Teaching and Learning Practices for Behaviour[4].

Our mission is for educators and students to have a shared understanding of our school values, learning expectations, behaviour rules and effective classroom routines. We strive to educate our students to build on their strengths, overcome their challenges and value respect, responsibility and resilience.

At Reservoir West Primary School, we believe:

Every student matters every day. All students can be high achievers.

We all have the right to learn, feel safe and are responsible for our behaviour.

WHAT IS THE MTSS FRAMEWORK / CONTINUUM OF BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT?

The MTSS framework is a tiered intervention designed to provide all students with universal teaching and learning supports, while planning additional interventions for those requiring more intensive assistance. The tiered supports are structured as follows:

Universal support (Tier 1): Supports for all students, staff and settings
Targeted support (Tier 2): Additional specialised group systems for students with at-risk behaviour
Intensive support (Tier 3): Specialised, individualised systems for students with complex behaviour needs, provided in addition to universal and targeted supports.

Reservoir West thinks of school-wide discipline systems as being important foundations for:

Supporting the majority of students
Preventing the development of chronic concerning behaviour for students with high risk backgrounds and learning histories
Identifying (screening) and providing more specialised and individualised behaviour supports for students with high intensity, difficult to change, problem behaviours

Strategies used at Reservoir West Primary to support and teach expected behaviours include:

Values and expected behaviours introduced and explicitly modelled during Learning to Learn, then referred in class daily
Weekly whole-school behaviour goals
Daily review: behaviour expectations
Monday morning wellbeing check-ins
Visual reminders placed indoors and outdoors
Friendship hour
Positive acknowledgment reward system
Principal's Award
Student of the Week awards
Clearly defined behaviours with general procedures for dealing with problem behaviours both in all settings
Student Behaviour Flow chart

For students who require individualised interventions we implement some or all of the following:

Student Profile
Student Behaviour Summary Profile
Individual Education Plans for students working 12-months below level
Check In, Check Out process
Daily Behaviour Observations
Create Behaviour Chronicles on Compass
Student Support Group meetings
Wellbeing Support
Referral to Allied Health services

Whole School Behaviour Expectations Matrix

Rights and Responsibilities

[1] https://mtss4success.org/essential-components

[2] https://www.vic.gov.au/SWPBS

[3] https://www.vic.gov.au/restorative-practice

[4] https://rypple.org.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2021/10/Rypple-ETLP-Map-1.pdf