By PB4L | Posted: Tuesday October 27, 2015
Timaru Boys’ High school has introduced a school wide programme that reinforces positive behaviour and fosters life skills for our young men. The programme is called “Positive Behaviour For Learning” (PB4L).
This is a
programme that the Ministry of Education is encouraging schools to take on. It
is based on the following foundation: “that positive behaviour can be learnt
and difficult/disruptive behaviour can be unlearnt.”
Our values were selected based around the school motto of ‘knowledge is power’; Pride, Our responsibility, Willing participant, Earning respect, Right attitude. Posters reinforcing these values are displayed in all classrooms and around school. The school values encourage and promote positive behavior with all students, in all settings.
Our student reward system has been fully introduced this year. Staff rewarded students based on behaviours that met the "POWER" values. Students started on a Bronze card with their completed card giving them entry into the weekly Bronze prize draws of Subway, Canteen, C-bay and Star on the Spot Dairy vouchers. Then the students moved on to Silver cards which, when completed, went in to the monthly draw for community prizes. We had fantastic community support for our prize pool, including sponsored prizes from Front runner, The Warehouse, Rok Fitness, Lone Star, Mac Shaw, Rebel Sport, Bloomers, U-Bake and CBay. Students then moved on to ultimate Gold cards which went into the end-of-year Noel Leeming major prize draw.
Noel Leeming generously contributed prizes for our major prize draw on the 28th of October 2015. We are continually grateful for the student and community support and inputs; these are central to the success of the PB4L process.
We are interested in increasing our community support to ensure the programme reaches its full potential in developing school-wide positive behaviour for learning.
If you are interested in contributing to our PB4L programme, please contact Timaru Boys’ High School on 687 7560.
Prizewinners on the day were: Blair Stevenson, Paddy Ahearn, Joseph Allen-Perkins, Isaac Beattie, Tom Page, Louis
Low, Tim Lindbom, Bede Wright, Caleb Nicolson, Ronan Galpin, Alvin Sutedja,
Thomas Scott, Cam Anderson, James Adams, Richard Irving, Gali Templeton, Anton
Faeldin, Sung Min Lee, Callum Smith, Jack Winsley, Charlie Stock, Zachery
Nicolson, Dillon Barker, Oli Anderson, Flynn Dey, Connor Perrin, Louis Low and Marshall Severinson.
