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.
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It promotes positive student behaviour by building student leadership capacity and teachers' knowledge, understanding and skills in applying effective school-wide behaviour systems.
Our School Behaviour Management Plan has been developed with PBL as the central system to ensure consistency with NSW DoE policy, and ongoing focus on maximising learning and personal growth in every student at Kellyville Ridge PS.
PBL helps to deliver the highest quality learning programs to improve student academic and behavioural learning outcomes.
It does this with:
- consistent school-wide discipline practices
- instruction in social skills
- self-regulation strategies for students
- improved behavioural interventions in the classrooms
- active supervision in all areas of the school.
At Kellyville Ridge Public School we have worked diligently to establish and embed the above practices as part of our school culture.
We will be providing regular information about PBL in our weekly assemblies and through our social media channels. Just ask your child what our school values, or expectations are. Also ask them what they can do to be safe, be respectful, be resilient or a learner at Kellyville Ridge.
The Resilience Project
As part of our Personal Development, Health, and Physical Education, we have implemented The Resilience Project. It is an emotionally engaging program, providing practical, evidence-based mental health strategies through presentations, school curriculum, community sessions, and Student Wellbeing Journals. Activities that foster connection are also incorporated as it is a foundational contributor to positive mental health.
To help children feel happier and build resilience, the program is centred around evidence-based principles proven to cultivate positive emotions and positive mental health. These principles are Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness (GEM) & Emotional Literacy.
Gratitude: paying attention to the things we have right now, and not worrying about what we don’t have. We practise this by noticing the positives around us.
Empathy: putting ourselves in the shoes of others to feel and see as they do. We practice this by being kind and compassionate towards other people.
Mindfulness: our ability to be calm and present at any given moment. We practice this by slowing down and concentrating on one thing at a time.
Emotional Literacy: being able to recognise and label your feelings and emotions as they happen.
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