We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.
We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:
- the behaviour code for students, which outlines the standards of behaviour expected in all NSW public schools
- anti-racism education
- anti-bullying programs
- conflict resolution and mediation training
- peer support
- road safety education
- the Healthy School Canteen Strategy.
For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.
Like all NSW public schools, we promote the healthy development of students through:
- school programs and practices that protect and promote health and safety
- supporting individual students who need help with health issues
- providing first aid and temporary care of students who become unwell or who have an accident at school.
Student wellbeing
Like all NSW public schools, we provide safe learning and teaching environments to encourage healthy, happy, successful and productive students.
The department is committed to creating quality learning opportunities for children and young people. These opportunities support wellbeing through positive and respectful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging to the school and community.
The Wellbeing Framework for Schools helps schools support the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development of students and allows them to connect, succeed and thrive throughout their education.
Positive Behaviour for Learning
At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning – a whole-school approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can learn and develop. Our whole school community works together to establish expected behaviours and teach them to all students.
PBL is an evidence-based whole school system that addresses the diverse academic and social needs of every student to support them to be successful. It enables schools to establish a continuum of supports that are intensified to meet the needs of every student.
It is team driven, using a problem solving approach (data, systems and practices) that engages students, parents and all school staff. It establishes positive social expectations for all in the school community. It provides a framework for the school and its community to collectively support the wellbeing of every student. With a well implemented PBL structure, students respond positively as they have been taught what is expected of them. Staff deliver consistent responses to student learning and behaviour. Students feel valued and cared for at school. Their parents, family and community are more involved in their school. Unproductive and challenging behaviour can be significantly reduced for most students.
What are the practices at Robertson Public School that support Positive Behaviour For Learning?
- Tiered Systems for Behaviour
- Awards
- Community Engagement
- Use of Data to Inform Progress
- School Wide Consistency in Implementation
The scope and sequence was developed by the members of the PBL committee and derived from the "all settings" focus areas established by data received from staff, students and parents. All teachers contributed to the weekly lesson plans during a SDD and PBL lessons K-6 focus explicitly on agreed expected behaviours across school settings. Lessons align with the term and weekly overview so that all students are receiving the same focus at the same time within lessons. Signs support the teaching of expected behaviours in each setting.
Students, through dedicated PBL lessons, understand the behaviours, attitudes and expectations that are expected and star charts in class, and subsequent receipt of colour coded wrist bands assist teachers to promote a daily focus on students who have displayed positive behaviour. Assembly awards identify students who are demonstrating positive behaviour. Teachers understand the behaviours that can be locally managed and those that require referral to the exec team. Pink slips allow teachers to record the detail of a negative behaviour. These are recorded on our LMBR system - Student Wellbeing. The pink slip consequence flow chart and the tiered award system assists teachers, students and parents to understand the decision making in regard to behaviour and consequences/rewards.
Information regarding PBL is communicated yearly to parents at PBL parent workshops that are led by the Principal in conjunction with "Meet the Teacher" evenings. They are also held for new parents during the Kindergarten Orientation cycle in Term 4 each year. Regular communication in the newsletter informs parents of our weekly focus and the key ideas within the PBL lessons being taught at that time. The core values adopted for our school align with the core values of our feeder high school, Moss Vale High School, maximising the opportunity for students to have a smooth transition to the high school setting.
For more information, download:
- PBL Award System (docx 36 KB)
- Pink Slip Decision Tree (docx 23 KB)
- PBL Matrix (docx 21 KB)
- RPS Discipline Policy (doc 646 KB)
- Weekly Focus T1 (docx 19 KB)
- Weekly Focus T2 (docx 60 KB)
- Weekly Focus T3 (docx 62 KB)
- Weekly Focus T4 (docx 60 KB)
Student representative council
A Student Representative Council leads student fundraising activities and special student events/days. Student representatives are voted upon each term in each class, where upon two representatives are selected.
Meetings occur fortnightly and are headed by Year 6 ministry representatives and overseen by Mrs Keat and Mrs Roodenrys. There are two fundraising events for charity each year along with two fundraising events for the school.