Brunswick North West Primary School (BNWPS) strives to make students responsible for their own pro-social and learning behaviour, as well as that of their peers. At the beginning of each year personal and collective rights and responsibilities are discussed. These are displayed in the classroom and revisited often throughout the year.

BNWPS school values

Respect: Valuing each others’ point of view, accepting people as they are, being polite and kind, treating others the way you would like to be treated.

Connectedness: Developing a sense of community through friendship, care, compassion, cooperation, acceptance, belonging and sharing.

Resilience: Recognising strengths and maximising potential; developing self-management, self-confidence and self-respect; and nurturing optimism, perseverance and wellbeing.

Achievement: Attaining personal success in a range of human endeavours, pursuing individual excellence and displaying pride and satisfaction in personal achievement.

Creativity: Valuing original ideas, demonstrating enterprise and innovation, and engaging with and responding to aesthetic qualities of the natural and constructed world.

Integrity: Acting honestly, ethically, and consistently.

Responsibility: Accepting both individual and collective responsibility and contributing to sustainable community development.

Equity: Developing tolerance and commitment to social justice, acknowledging diversity, respecting difference and encouraging distinctiveness.

The school is committed to using Restorative Practice with students as it is consistent with our school values. Most concerns with student behaviour are expected to be dealt with through the use of Restorative Practices.

Restorative practice is a process that plainly distinguishes between “managing behaviour” and “managing relationships”. A restorative approach holds that the best way to deal with a problem or incident where people have been harmed and relationships damaged is to have those involved take part in a structured conversation. In this process, those involved are supported to listen, share and exchange ideas and work together towards a resolution that focuses on repairing the harm done to people, not simply punishing the wrongdoers.

Bullying
BNWPS does not accept bullying behaviour at any level in the school, between any members of the school community.

We believe students, parent(s) / carer(s) and staff play an essential role in identifying and responding to inappropriate behaviour. The following practices are in place at BNWPS to respond to bullying and unacceptable behaviour, as per the DEECD guidelines:

• Explicit teaching of what to do if you are bullied
• Restorative Practices
• Buddy Systems
• Schoolwide positive behaviour support
• Promoting cybersafety

Yard Duty and Supervision

Student safety at Brunswick North West Primary School  is our highest priority and the safe and appropriate supervision of students is an important element of our duty of care to students. Part of this duty is ensuring parents and students are aware of our student supervision arrangements before and after school.

Before school: School grounds are supervised from 8:45am.

After school: School grounds are supervised until 3:45pm.

Students on school grounds outside these times will not be supervised (unless they are attending a before or after school care program or supervised extracurricular activity).

Parents/carers are requested to ensure that students do not attend school outside of these supervised times unless they are attending before or after school care, or a pre-arranged supervised activity (i.e. sports practice).

Families are encouraged to contact Brunswick North West Primary School on 03 9386 4624 for more information about the before and after school care facilities available to our school community or if you would like any further information about our student supervision arrangements.

This policy includes Example School’s student supervision arrangements across the school day, including before and after school.