In 2019 our kura joined the MOE behaviour initiative, PB4L.

The Positive Behaviour for Learning School-Wide framework, otherwise known as PB4L School-Wide, is helping New Zealand schools build a culture where positive behaviour and learning is a way of life. The framework has been designed so that it can be tailored to our school’s environment and social and cultural needs.

PB4L School-Wide looks at behaviour and learning from a whole-of-school as well as an individual child perspective. The framework is based on international evidence and incorporates a foundation of  Restorative Practice. 

Restorative Practice is a relational approach to school life grounded in beliefs about equality, dignity, mana and the potential of all people.

The Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) Restorative Practice model focuses on building and maintaining positive, respectful relationships across the school community and offers school staff best-practice tools and techniques to restore relationships when things go wrong. Our focus is building and maintaining positive, respectful relationships within a school, staff to staff, staff to student,  student to student, whānau to kura and vice-versa.

Our Paekākāriki School PB4L framework is based on a set of best practice tools and techniques to support a consistent and sustainable approach to managing positive, respectful relationships within the school.

When our tamariki are ‘caught’ upholding our values of belonging, connecting, exploring and thriving, they are rewarded for their Positive Behaviour by being given a ‘behaviour stone’. These stones are created each year by every student in the school, and added to the kete. Students record their earnings in class, which then adds a point to their termly house total. The winning house at the end of each term receives a celebration. Individual student names are drawn in assembly and are invited to a PB4L celebration afternoon tea with Whaea Julia. 

Ka pai to mahi!