We strive to be an inclusive, high quality learning community that is child-centred empowering collaboration, promoting catholic faith and gospel values so that our students can flourish and enrich the world.
‘More than ever, we should be humble and patient, charitable and forgiving’
Mary MacKillop
St Monica’s Catholic School is a safe and supportive learning community that works together to make a difference for and in our children by:
- Embracing and modelling Christian ideals in the Catholic tradition
- Celebrating, respecting and valuing our diversity
- Valuing and acknowledging the students’ development through education
- Promoting life-long learning so as to thrive actively in an ever changing global community
- Upholding a strong view of social justice that builds trusting relationships
At St Monica’s Primary School we have introduced the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Framework to establish a calm, supportive and organised learning environment. This allows our students to flourish as individuals and as a whole school community, in all areas of learning and wellbeing.
The PBL framework ensures the wellbeing of our children and promotes life-long learning so that they thrive actively in an ever changing global community. Celebrating , respecting and valuing our diversity are all very much part of our school vision and gives us a clear direction in creating our school culture.
At St Monica’s we aim to support our children to manage themselves as individuals, emotionally and throughout their learning journey and in relation to others around them; to understand the world in which they live and to act effectively in that world.
What is Positive Behaviours for Learning (PBL) Framework?
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) is a framework that helps schools to plan and implement practices across the whole school in order to improve educational and behavioural outcomes for all children, staff and families.
The PBL framework is founded on a positive approach to whole school well being, with targeted approaches for children with higher levels of need.
As a school community, St Monica’s has the four core values of being SAFE, RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE and RESILIENT which are explicitly taught from Foundation to Year 6. We have a number of ROUTINES which have also been embedded throughout the school day to support transitioning to and from workspaces calmly. There are routines for entering the school at the beginning of each day, along with other routines to support learning and teaching, promoting a sense of calm and order for our school community.
Introducing, modelling and reinforcing positive social behaviour is an important component of a child’s educational experience. PBL works on the assumption that we cannot assume that children know how to behave. Children must be explicitly taught the behaviours we want them to demonstrate. Behaviours need to be taught, modelled, practised and rewarded.
