Positive Behaviours for Learning
Fortnightly Focus
This fortnight our whole school focus is to ‘be safe’ by being in the right place at the right time. Students can demonstrate this by:
- making their way to class quickly when the bell rings, including first thing in the morning and after break times.
- wearing a ‘mission pass’ to notify teachers and staff that they have permission to be out of the classroom.
- waiting in the courtyard or basketball court before school. Handballs can be used in the courtyard, basketballs on the basketball court but soccer balls are to remain still.
- staying in front of the red lines during break times. The red lines tell us that this is ‘out of bounds.’
Being Sun Smart at School
Please be reminded that it is ‘hats on’ at school during break times and PE lessons. There are still quite a few students either presenting without a hat or wearing caps that are not considered sun smart. Bucket hats and legionnaires hats are considered sun smart. They provide full protection to the face, ears and neck. Many hats at lost property are without a name or label. Hats that are easy to identify almost always make their way back to the rightful owner.
Rubbish
Our school provides a variety of options for the disposal of rubbish and food waste. As well as landfill bins, we have bins dedicated to recycling paper and packaging. We even have compost bins that collect food waste to distribute on our school worm farm. Despite these many options, there are still a lot of wrappers being dropped on the ground. If students have not finished eating at the end of the allocated eating time, they are reminded to take their food to the courtyard. Let’s keep our school environment clean and green!
eSafety Commissioner and Online safety
The school holidays are fast approaching, and this is when some students will be spending more time online. It is a timely reminder for families to have conversations about being safe, respectful and responsible users of smartphones, computers, tablets and gaming consoles. It is important for there to be transparency regarding access to age-appropriate content and who is considered safe to communicate with. The eSafety Commissioner provides advice for parents relating to online safety. This includes protecting personal information and building digital intelligence, through to how to set up parental controls.
For more information go to: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents
Within the esafety commissioner's website is a great go to Safety Guide which is frequently updated and provides parents with information on a large number of popular games, sites, apps and platforms that our young people may be accessing.
Safety Guide: https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/esafety-guide
If you would be interested in more information or the opportunity to attend a parent session on cyber safety, please reach out to our via our school email address. info@ngunnawalps.act.edu.au
Whole School Reward
The Yunggi Bengal target of 90,000 is approaching rapidly. Our current count is at 87 202! Students will be rewarded with a YES Afternoon, which means they can select a free choice activity that meets our PBL expectations.
Rainbow Awards
We are very excited to be celebrating our first Rainbow Award recipients for 2024. Please see our awards section for the names of our first recipients this year. Congratulations to you all!
These students have demonstrated excellence in all PBL areas. They will soon be invited to attend morning tea with our principal, Bec.
We are also very close to awarding our inaugural Yunggi Bengals badges. The Yunggi Bengal badges are awarded to Rainbow Award recipients who have also earnt 400 Yunggi Bengals this year. We cannot wait to award the first of these badges. This year we will use the bronze badge, with the silver in 2025 and the gold in 2026. Who can you collect them all?
The PBL team
