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TE UHO BEAT – PB4L-SW

The Positive Behaviour for Learning School-Wide framework, otherwise known as PB4L School-Wide, is helping New Zealand schools build a culture where positive behaviour and learning is a way of life. The framework can be tailored to your school’s own environment and cultural needs. PB4L School-Wide looks at behaviour and learning from a whole-of-school as well as an individual child perspective. The framework is based on international evidence.

It’s not about changing the students; it’s about changing the environment, systems and practices you have in place to support them to make positive behaviour choices.

At Te Uho o te Nikau Primary School, we have renamed our PB4L-SW framework to “Te Uho Beat ” as it is framed around our five values: Growth, Ownership, Trust, Membership and Security.

Te Uho Beat Matrix

Our current Te Uho Beat Matrix is distributed around the school for teaching use.

This is the document that informs our learners and kaiako of the way in which we act or conduct ourselves. This Matrix follows the values of our school and because behaviour is contextual, our matrix also follows the different contexts we walk in and out of here at school.

Teaching the Matrix is timetabled during Hauora/Health time. We have an overview of what to teach and when to teach it.

We envisage the Matrix changing throughout the year, when we see how our kids behave and continue to figure out what their behaviour needs are.