Overview
Yanco Agricultural High School is committed to explicitly teaching and modelling positive behaviour and to supporting all students to be engaged in their learning, in a fully residential setting.
Our goal is to inspire every child to participate positively in society. We focus on promoting excellence, opportunity and success for every student, every day. We value and strive to develop safe, respectful learners in a caring learning community.
The principles of positive behaviour support, trauma-informed practice, inclusive practice, and social emotional learning underpin our daily practice. High expectations for student behaviour are established and maintained through effective role modelling, explicit teaching, and planned responses.
Our processes are founded on the idea that students must learn to take responsibility for their own actions and to ensure all staff respond to these challenges consistently to support students to acknowledge harm and learn from their behaviour.
The Yanco Agricultural High School Strategic Improvement Plan focuses on the development of a planned approach to wellbeing as part of strategic direction two. This involves the review and development of the whole school, evidence-based practices to address the unique residential context of our school.
Partnerships between the school, parents, community, and other agencies will reinforce a collaborative approach to support the attendance, well-being and learning of students.
To achieve our mission, key approaches and programs prioritised and valued by the school community are:
● Restorative Practice
● Supportive wellbeing team, led by the Head teachers Wellbeing, focussing on wholistic support
● A wellbeing hub for time out and reflective practice, led by a team of wellbeing staff
● A strong approach to anti-bullying and supports available
● Behaviour monitoring, focusing on positive behaviours
● A Positive Behaviour for Learning focus
● The Resilience Project
These programs prioritise social and emotional learning which supports good mental health, positive relationships and supports prevention of bullying.
Restorative practice is a whole school teaching and learning approach that encourages behaviour that is supportive and respectful. A restorative approach focuses on building, maintaining and restoring positive relationships, particularly when incidents that involve interpersonal conflict or wrongdoing occur.
If you would like the full document, our School Behaviour and Management Plan (Microsoft Word document .docx) can be downloaded to your device.