Mount Erin College is a Learning Community. Learning is most effective when the College and classrooms are a safe and orderly environment based on School Wide Positive Behaviours.

Our aim is to foster a positive Learning Culture where, as a community, we are able to achieve our potential. Our College matrices are based on having an orderly school environment where all members of the school community are respected and valued and everyone has the capacity to achieve their learning potential.

We follow a School Wide Positive Behaviour Support framework and a Cooperative Classrooms approach, and we use these steps to support students to take ownership of their behaviour and support them to effectively engaging in learning.

Mount Erin College has developed a School Wide Positive Behaviour Support program that helps students grow as members of the MEC Community, and as members of the wider community. 

These behaviours are tied into the new school values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience in all areas of the students’ lives. 

It is all about common language and creating and instilling positive values consistently for our college community, which includes staff, students and parents/guardians.

School-wide positive behaviour support (SWPBS) is a framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures.

SWPBS assists schools to improve social, emotional, behavioural and academic outcomes for children and young people.

When SWPBS is implemented well, teachers and students have more time to focus on relationships and classroom instruction. Students and staff benefit from:

• increased respectful and positive behaviour

• increased time focused on instruction

• improved social-emotional wellbeing

• positive and respectful relationships among students and staff

• increased adoption of evidence-based instructional practices

• a predictable learning environment with improved perceptions of safety and increased attendance.

Teaching Expected behaviours

College staff will teach our respectful and responsible and resilient behaviour expectations to our students in an age and context appropriate way. 

Reinforcing Expected behaviours

College staff verbally reinforce positive behaviours and issue Positive Behaviour Points via compass

Managing Minor Challenging Behaviours

Teachers assist students to improve their behaviour by reminding students of the behaviour expectations and then reteaching the behaviour expectations as required during their interactions with students. 

Teachers also provide appropriate behavioural choices and students with opportunities to re-engage with their learning if they have demonstrated a minor challenging behaviour.

 Following a minor challenging behaviour staff will also have a restorative conversation  with students and issue logical consequences for the minor behaviours.

Mount Erin School Values Defined

Respect

• To feel or show an understanding for your own or other’s beliefs / rights / religions or environment.

Resilience

• The ability to recover from setbacks, adapt to change, and persist in the face of adversity.

Responsibility

• Being dependable, making good choices, and taking ownership and accountability for your actions. 

Mount Erin College Matrices

Mount Erin College General Classroom Matrix

SWPB is a multi-tiered– three tiers, to be exact. be exact. 

Each tier aligns to the type of support students 

need. These three tiers are:

Tier 1: Universal Prevention

Tier 2: Targeted Prevention (Some)

Tier 3: Intensive, Individualized Prevention (Few)

Tier 1: Universal Prevention

Tier 1 systems, data, and practices impact everyone across all settings. 

They establish the foundation for delivering regular, proactive support and preventing unwanted behaviors. 

Tier 1 emphasizes prosocial skills and expectations by teaching and acknowledging appropriate student behaviour.

Tier 2: Targeted Prevention (Some)

Tier 2 systems, data, and practices provide targeted support for students who are not successful with Tier 1 supports alone. 

The focus is on supporting students who are at risk for developing more serious problem behavior before those behaviors start. 

Tier 2 supports often involve group interventions with 10 or more students participating. 

The support at this level is more focused than Tier 1 and less intensive than Tier 3.

Tier 3: Intensive, Individualized Prevention (Few)

At most schools, there are 1-5% of students for whom Tier 1 and Tier 2 supports have not connected. 

At Tier 3, these students receive more intensive, individualized support to improve their behavioral and academic outcomes. 

Tier 3 strategies work for students with developmental disabilities, autism, emotional and behavioral disorders, and students with no diagnostic label at all.

Frequently asked questions about Positive Behaviour Support at Mount Erin College

What is Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)? 

School-wide positive behaviour support (PBS) is an evidenced based framework that brings together school communities to develop positive, safe, supportive learning cultures. 

When SWPBS is implemented well, teachers and students have more time to focus on relationships and classroom instruction. Students and staff benefit from: 

∙ increased respectful and positive behaviour

∙ increased time focused on instruction 

∙ improved social-emotional wellbeing 

∙ positive and respectful relationships among students and staff 

∙ increased adoption of evidence-based instructional practices 

∙ a predictable learning environment with improved perceptions of safety and increased attendance 

Why is Mount Erin College focusing on teaching and reinforcing positive behaviours? 

At Mount Erin College we are Respectful and Responsible and Resilient learners. To support our community to demonstrate our expectations we know teaching students positive behaviours and then reinforcing their behaviour will support them to learn and begin to perform these behaviours regularly with ease.

When will these positive behaviours be taught? 

The positive behaviours will be taught during College Pastoral Care program and PDS in VM. Each lesson will be 2-12 minutes long. Some initial lessons may be longer for Year 7 students during their transition to secondary school. 

Which positive behaviours will be taught to my child/children? 

The positive behaviours from our School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support Matrix will be taught to every class each year. The matrix categorises behaviours by our expectations respectful Responsible and resilient and by setting eg. the classroom, the office/first aid, the canteen etc.