School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) The foundress of the FCJ Society Marie Madeleine d’Houet once said “Good example does much good.” Staff at FCJ College work hard on educating and witnessing this good example.

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support provides a foundation of thinking to guide our school’s work for defining, teaching, acknowledging appropriate behaviour and correcting inappropriate behaviour.

School behaviour expectations are explicitly taught – if a child or young person does not know how to behave, we teach the expected behaviour. SWPBS is for the whole school, it is preventative, and switches focus from negative behaviours and exchanges to positive expectations and interactions – leading to the promotion of academic, social and emotional competency.

Introducing, modelling and reinforcing positive social behaviour at FCJ College is an important step in a child’s educational experience. Explicitly teaching our behavioural expectations and acknowledging students for demonstrating them is key to success. Below is the FCJ College SWPBS Matrix. This document indicates the behavioural expectations we expect and teach in each area of our school, based on the FCJ Characteristics of Companionship, Justice, Gentleness, Courage & Confidence.