Behaviour Management

At Grey Lynn School we aim to create a caring environment, developing respectful relationships with our school wide community (parents, staff and students), to improve social, cultural and academic outcomes. To do this we will consistently model, teach, acknowledge and praise positive behaviours.

The Grey Lynn Way aims to ensure the school’s culture is one where:

• Positive behaviour and learning thrive.

• Students feel safe and loved coming to school

• Differences and diversity are celebrated

Students will be taught what behaviours are expected of them so that there is a consistent response to these ‘desired’ behaviours across the school. The school-wide values approach focuses less on the individual students as the problem and more on changing the environment around them to support positive behaviours (preventative vs reactionary). 

The purpose is to focus on:

• Preventing problem behaviours from occurring.

• Developing students’ social skills.

• Reinforcing desired behaviours.

• Consistently addressing and reducing inappropriate behaviours.

We achieve this through:

• Positively stating clear and concise expectations for all students and staff. To be regularly reinforced and encouraged through a blend of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.

• Teachers will ensure consistency across the school in the explaining, modelling, practising and acknowledging.

• A clear set of logical procedural steps to discourage and manage problem behaviour.

CODE OF BEHAVIOUR

Everyone at Grey Lynn School (staff, students and parents) is expected to act in accordance to the school’s core values - The Grey Lynn Way.  All expectations for behaviour fall under the umbrella of the Grey Lynn School values identified in the charter.