Our school fosters a warm, supportive environment where students can be happy and where optimal learning can take place.
A major part of the teacher's role is to ensure that children will learn and develop within their school environment by managing disruptive behaviour that hinders their success and enjoyment of learning. It is also expected that students will respect the teachers' fundamental right to teach without disruptive behaviours hindering his/her success and enjoyment of teaching. We also acknowledge that if students are to become productive members of society, teachers must help them to develop responsibility for their actions by both teaching explicitly and practising problem solving skills.
The establishment of good discipline in our school depends upon both school personnel and parents working towards the same goals and insisting on acceptable standards of behaviour being maintained for the enhanced outcomes of our students and our school. Our strategy is grounded in the belief that the practices and behaviours of teachers and other adults within the school can, and do, influence student behaviours.
As there is nothing that builds success like experiencing success, there is a strong emphasis on noticing positive behaviours and rewarding them. Positive Behaviour For Learning (PBL) is the school wide approach used by Esk State School as the framework to manage and promote positive behaviours. Staff practices include a range of approaches and are deliberately chosen and responsive to data based interpretations about the actual behaviours of students in the school. The social and emotional general capabilities of the Australian Curriculum are taught in conjunction with PBL.
Further information and greater detail are available through the menu on the left of the page (drop down the menu by expanding Behaviour Management), or in the downloadable documents on the right of the page.
Our school motto
We value
- Safety, Respect and Learning
Our behaviour expectations (rules)
- Be safe, Be responsible, Be respectful, Be a learner.