Behaviour:
Education Queensland is committed to provisions
that ensure all young Queenslanders have a right to and receive a quality
education. All members of the Park
Ridge State School community acknowledge their commitment to the underpinning
beliefs of the Code of School behaviour with its stated goals of Better
Behaviour Better Learning. All members
of the Park Ridge State School community will use the Code as a basis for
providing:
· Positive
support to promote high standards in student achievement and student behaviour;
and
· Clearly articulated responses
and consequences for inappropriate behaviour.
Park Ridge State School is widely
acknowledged as the ‘Harmony School’ where the entire school community work
together to create a safe supportive environment where achievement/learning is
the goal for all. Parents, staff members and students spend time developing
positive, exciting proactive programs, believing a successful focus on Harmony
School will create more time for curriculum focussed language rather than
management focussed language. The Responsible
Behaviour Plan for Students is designed to support this focus, facilitating
high standards of behaviour to ensure quality learning outcomes.
At Park
Ridge State School, all members of our school community are expected to conduct
themselves in a lawful, ethical, safe and responsible manner that recognises
and respects the rights of others. Our
Responsible Behaviour Plan for Students outlines our system for facilitating
positive behaviours, preventing problem behaviour and responding to unacceptable
behaviours (access the
full plan here).
Harmony
School Motto:
‘Living and Learning in Harmony to be
the best we can be’
School Rules: Park Ridge State School has identified the following
school rules to teach and promote our high standards of responsible behaviour:
Be Safe,
Be Responsible, Be Respectful, Be a Learner
Embedded
in the rules is a core system of values which are promoted. Our core values are:
Care,
Honesty, Rights, Responsibility, Respect, Citizenship, Excellence & Harmony
Positive Behaviour:
Park Ridge
State School has an effective and proven range of school approaches which allow
the development of the Harmony School Philosophy in the whole school as well as
in each classroom.
Consequences – Low
Level Behaviours:
All incidents will be supported
on a least intrusive to more intrusive continuum. Students may be managed in a local
context by the class teacher so that resolution occurs as close to the
student’s usual learning context as possible.
Low level
behaviours (level 1 and 2) are managed by the class teacher utilising the
‘essential skills’, planning tables, buddy classes, restitution, logical
consequences, parental contact and differentiation. Persistent
disruptive behaviours may result in the teacher liaising with Administration to
develop a more intensive, individualised plan (meetings
with parents, individual support plans and / or Special Needs Committee
referrals).
Consequences – High
Level Behaviours:
Level 3
and 4 behaviours are
deemed as those requiring targeted support. Students demonstrating behaviours identified
as being level 3 and 4 disruptions are referred to a member of the
Administration team. At this level, staff, Administration (Principal, Deputy Principal, Head
of Learning and Teaching, Head of Special Education Services) and parents work together to support and improve the
student’s behaviour. Consequences are
determined by the Administration team and are based on the intent, severity,
frequency, impact on others and actual harm caused by the demonstrated
behaviour(s). Consequences could
include:
º Writing a
plan (focusing on the disruption and
strategies to make more responsible choices in the future. The plan is then monitored in the classroom)
º Withdrawal
from class (work at the office)
º 
Restitution
º Review
current plan
º Parent
contact
º Individual
support plan
º School
based Chaplain referral
º Send home
º In-School
Suspension
º Suspension
º Exclusion
º Police
º Referrals
to outside agencies (e.g. The Spot, Paediatricians, Psychologists, Behaviour
Support)
Across all levels of behaviour, communication
with parents as soon as possible after an incident has occurred, is deemed
imperative at Park Ridge State School.
Teachers utilise a range of communication modes, including telephone,
letter, communication books and email.