Principal’s Message
We aim to provide a positive environment in which each child is respected and his/her right to learn is encouraged and protected.
Teaching and Learning Principals
At Carlisle PS our teaching and learning principles:
• Provide a happy, safe learning environment.
• Offer learning experiences that connect with and challenge existing skills and values.
• Encourage and support risk taking.
• Integrate critical and creative thinking in teaching and learning programs.
• Practice and model timely and constructive feedback.
• Respect and accommodate differences between learners.
• Participate in goal-setting and encourage action and reflection.
• Implement a balance of cooperative, group, partner and individual learning opportunities.
• Offer relevant learning experiences connecting to real life.
• Promote self-motivated, confident learners through inquiry and active participation in challenging and engaging experiences.
Core Values
- A pursuit of knowledge
- Respect of self
- Respect the rights of others
- Social and civic responsibility
- Safe environment
School Rules
- Respect the rights of others
- Let others learn
- Be prepared and on time
- Respect personal and school property
- Act in a safe and caring manner
The following principles underpin Carlisle Primary Schools’ approach to managing student behaviour:
Consistency.
All staff embrace the policy and implement it as it is written. Staff follow the procedures so that issues of fairness and equity are minimised.
Process.
The children learn a framework within which they can work. Children can see a logical progression and a relationship between their behaviour and the consequences.
Counsel.
It is unfair to punish a child for infringing the rules without offering a means for the child to address the situation and assimilate strategies that will help them overcome similar situations in the future. Counselling must be offered at the point of error or conflict.
Responsibility.
Children are responsible for their behaviour and need to accept this. The first step in changing the behaviour is an understanding that if they choose the behaviour, they are also choosing the consequences of the behaviour.
Communication.
Children are at school on loan from their parents. True education involves a partnership between the school and home. It is vital that the children’s behaviour, both positive and negative, be reported to parents, sooner rather than later.
Relationships.
It is recognised that positive working relationships between the students and staff is essential for mutual respect in the school community.
Behaviour Management
The discipline procedure provides consistent, logical, clear rules and consequences made familiar to all involved. The support of parents, teachers and children is needed to ensure the development of self-disciplined students.
AIMS: Carlisle Primary School’s behaviour management policy aims to:
- To provide a happy, positive learning environment.
- To help students reach their full potential.
- To provide a physically and emotionally safe environment.
- To encourage students to accept responsibility for their own behaviour – choose the behaviour – choose the consequence.
- To ensure rules are applied consistently, fairly, consequentially and reviewed regularly.
- To enable teachers to teach in a purposeful and non-disruptive environment.
- Establish procedures so that conflicts can be resolved in a positive non-violent manner.