BEHAVIOUR
BEHAVIOUR
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Our focus is on learning and any behaviour that impacts on this requires redirection.
Bluff School has an emphasis on natural justice and the expectation that the consequence is to be relevant to the offence.
All situations that arise are looked into and many recorded on our SMS HERO. For more serious altercations that arise such as hurting another child intentionally or because of silly behaviour, is investigated and a suitable outcome is agreed to by all. The outcome remains confidential to all involved.
At Bluff School we use our card system to correct, redirect and reward behaviour. There are 4 different coloured cards, with 6 opportunities for the tamariki to redirect and make a better choice. Each card and colour reflects a different stage in the redirection.
Every child starts the day with a Green Card. Every week children will have the option to attend Kōwhiringa for the entire duration or not based on their choices that week.
Any child who has a Green Card week will attend Kōwhiringa for the entire time. Kōwhiringa is a reward system where children choose a desired activity to participate in every Friday for the term.
If a child has a yellow, orange or red card during the week they will attend Ka Ngaro (Loss of Kōwhiringa) with Whaea Dee.
This is where they lose some or all of their Kōwhiringa based on their choices and spend time reflecting on the different choices they could have made throughout the week.
Communication
We will make contact with you if there are any issues or concerns about your child at school.
Regarding behaviour, it is important that all parents/whānau understand that most students, at some stage, are going to make mistakes - it is how they deal with these that matters most and that they learn from them.
We all need to work together to make this happen.
Please feel free to get in touch with us if you have any concerns about what is happening at school for your child or if you think there are things going on that we are not aware of - we can only deal with what we know about and things are far better dealt with early, before they escalate.
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