At Trinity Catholic Primary School, we believe that the social, emotional, moral, spiritual and physical wellbeing of our students is pivotal to student health, safety, learning and success. All members of the Trinity Community have a significant role to play in supporting a whole school approach to positive behaviour. Where all members work collaboratively, each child and young person has the opportunity to fully participate, engage in the process of schooling and become a successful learner.

The characteristics of our whole school positive behaviour approach include prevention, instruction, use of evidence based practices, and utilising data for informed decision making. A positive behaviour approach supports teaching and learning environments so that the academic outcomes of students are maximised.  This provides a structure and process for our school community and classroom procedures so that a positive social culture is established.

At Trinity, we have four School Wide Expectations. Our expectations were created in 2020 with input from staff and students. They are in line with our School Vision and help to provide a common language and experience for the entire school community.

With faith, hope and love, we use our actions to be:

Responsible

Respectful

Resilient

Safe

Our four School Wide Expectations are explicitly taught through the Victorian Curriculum Personal and Social Capabilities and modelled in our words and actions.

Choice Theory

At Trinity we use Choice Theory as an approach for students to understand their behaviour and how to manage themselves both in good times and bad. Choice Theory is based on the work of Doctor William Glasser and it is an approach, not a program. It build’s resilience within students and helps them to identify how they are feeling, why they are feeling that way and what they can do to manage these feelings.  Choice Theory explains how and why we make the choices that determine the course of our lives.  It states that all we do is behave, that almost all behaviour is chosen, and that we are driven by our genes to satisfy five basic needs – survival, love & belonging, power, freedom and fun. In practice, the most important need is love and belonging, as closeness and connectedness with the people we care about is a requisite for satisfying all of our basic needs.

Seasons for Growth

Seasons for Growth is a program for children who have experienced significant change or loss.  It is based on the belief that change, loss and grief are a normal and valuable part of life and explores how we can learn to live with and grow from these experiences.