Taree West Public School

Respect, Responsibility and Care

Telephone02 6552 1910

Emailtareewest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Student health and safety

We are committed to ensuring a safe and happy environment for your child.

We support your child’s health and safety through a range of strategies including:

For more information, visit the student wellbeing section of the department’s website.

Like all NSW public schools, we promote the healthy development of students through:

  • school programs and practices that protect and promote health and safety
  • supporting individual students who need help with health issues
  • providing first aid and temporary care of students who become unwell or who have an accident at school.

Student wellbeing

Like all NSW public schools, we provide safe learning and teaching environments to encourage healthy, happy, successful and productive students.

The department is committed to creating quality learning opportunities for children and young people. These opportunities support wellbeing through positive and respectful relationships and fostering a sense of belonging to the school and community.

The Wellbeing Framework for Schools helps schools support the cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development of students and allows them to connect, succeed and thrive throughout their education.

Positive Behaviour for Learning

At our school, we use Positive Behaviour for Learning – a whole-school approach for creating a positive, safe and supportive school climate where students can learn and develop. Our whole school community works together to establish expected behaviours and teach them to all students.

Respect, Responsibility and Care

Taree West Public School is proud to be a Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) school. The PBL process is adopted in many school across the world and is actively supported by the Department of Education and Communities.

Our school began its PBL journey in 2012. We have a committed team of teachers, School Leaning Support Officers, parents, students and community members who meet regularly to ensure the program is tailored to meet the needs of our school, and is implemented effectively.

As a whole school community we established three core values of Respect, Responsibility and Care. These values are instilled and reinforced across our school environment. An Eagle Mascot has been developed to identify and reward appropriate behaviours. Expectations are taught to the children around the core values with a weekly focus on the explicit teaching of expected behaviours in identified areas of the school. The universal expectations ensure consistency across our school.