St Mary’s School is committed to creating the values of safety, responsibility and respect throughout our learning community.

 

A whole school approach to support the wellbeing and social and emotional learning of all students includes:

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• Daily Mindfulness and Meditation

• Berry Street Education Module Morning Routine

• Circle Time

• Resilience Project

• Weekly, explicit Social and Emotional Learning lessons 

• Regular Brain Breaks

• Whole School Behaviour Matrix

• Restorative Conversations

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Learning design assists students to develop Emotional Literacy, Personal Strengths, Positive Coping, Problem Solving, Stress Management, Help Seeking, Gender and Identity and Positive Gender Relationships.

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Teaching strategies incorporate evidence based trauma-aware teaching, positive education, and wellbeing practices, striving to improve the social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for all students. Programs include: 

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• School Wide Positive Behaviour Support Framework

• Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships 

• The Berry Street Education Module

• The Resilience Project

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At St Mary’s School, a whole school restorative approach to behaviour management is implemented. This promotes respectful, responsible and safe behaviours and increases positive behaviours.

 

The explicit use of the St Mary’s School behaviour matrix, behaviour flowchart and restorative conversations create consistent language, expectations and consequences across the school. ​

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