Our SPB4L focus for this week (Week 10) is the No! STOP! DON’T! 3 Step Plan
We teach this to the students so that they have a way to manage situations with other students if they are being treated disrespectfully, irresponsibly or unsafely.

In the explicit teaching lessons the expected behaviours taught will be:

NO, STOP, DON’T - 3 Step Plan

Step 1:
Say NO, STOP and/or DON’T
Tell the person assertively

NO
“No I won’t …..”
“No I don’t want to …….”

STOP
“Stop it!”
Stop doing that!”
Stop saying those things!”

DON’T
“I don’t like it …….”

Step 2:
Tell the person assertively
“Stop it or I’ll tell a teacher”
“Stop saying that or I’ll tell a teacher”
“Stop doing that or I’ll tell a teacher”

Step 3:
Tell the nearest teacher

Our SPB4L focus for next week (Week 11) is Good Manners.
In the explicit teaching lessons the expected behaviours taught will be:
* Saying ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you’
* Saying ‘Excuse me’
* Saying ‘Good Morning”
* Asking ‘May I’
* Waiting my turn to talk
* Looking at the person speaking
* Using the other person's name

Examples of behaviours that negatively impact respectful, responsible and safe behavior when using Good Manners to be taught include:
* Not saying please, thank you or excuse me
* Interrupting
* Walking away when someone is talking to you
* Ignoring others

We would very much appreciate your discussing these weekly focuses with your children and reviewing the expected and non-acceptable behaviours in our endeavour to see that St Patrick’s is a more respectful, responsible and safe learning community for all.

SPB4L Data

It is with great pride that I inform you that over the last two weeks 49 students were given Citizenship, Merit, Library or Uniform Awards or Playground Affirmation Awards whilst there were just 2 incidences of inappropriate behaviour recorded.

WE’RE GOING GREENER - NUDE FOOD EVERYDAY

Quite simply what we’re asking you to do is to send your children to school with food that is not wrapped in foil, plastic or commercial packaging. Our hope is that all food will come to school in containers that can be taken home rather than in wrapping or packaging that ends up as rubbish in our bins. We wish to eliminate single use plastics and food packaging to make a significant impact in reducing rubbish that goes to landfill.

It is our response to instilling in our students an ecological consciousness that aligns itself with the efforts and expectations of the wider community and puts into practice the principles of the Papal encyclical, ‘Laudato Si.”

Requiring students to bring Nude Food empowers students to make conscious choices about what they eat, and encourages them to think about their impact on the environment and their health.

We have had a great response so far this term.

Mr Gavan Hoctor
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL