Restorative Practice and Wellbeing

Restorative Practice

At Tallawong Public School Restorative Practice is embedded across the whole school as a teaching and learning approach that encourages behaviour that is supportive and respectful.

A restorative approach focuses on building and maintaining positive relationships across the whole school community and aims to create an ethos of respect, inclusion, cooperation, accountability and responsibility. It promotes self-regulation, putting the onus on individuals to be truly accountable for their behaviour and to repair any harm caused to others as a result of their actions.

At Tallawong Public School we:

• value quality relationships, 
• model empathy and respectful relationships, 
• value student voice and utilise collaborative problem solving, 
• view inappropriate behaviours as opportunities for learning, 
• apply procedural fairness, 
• recognise the importance of repairing damaged relationships, 
• separate the ‘deed’ from the ‘doer’, 
• use active listening and positive language and tone, 
• avoid scolding, judging, lecturing or blaming, 
• foster self-awareness in the student, 
• implement consequences that are proportional and fair, 
• remain future focused.

Student achievement is enhanced through the embedding of restorative values as a way of being and learning together.  Our approach fosters individual responsibility and helps develop empathy. Inappropriate behaviour or choices and mistakes can be viewed as an opportunity for insight, learning and development in both the academic and social domains.  

The following questions guide restorative conversations.