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Planning Room changes

Changes to Planning Room

 

Next term at KPS our students will notice some changes to our Planning Room procedures. Most of our students rarely visit the Planning Room but for those who attend, the Planning Room is a safe place where students who have not complied with our school rules in the playground can reflect on their behaviour and, with the help of a teacher, formulate a plan to replace unhelpful/unsafe choices with more positive actions.

At Kincumber Public School we have introduced an emotion-based problem solving strategy into our Planning Room procedures which will start being implemented in Term 4, 2010.   The new planning strategy is called PEACE CAR. Together, students and Executive staff will work through the playground incident in a calm and reflective way, encouraging individual students to think helpfully about their choices. By reflecting on the incident the teacher will be able to encourage the student to identify whether their thoughts and feelings at the time were helpful or unhelpful. Ultimately, the goal of the Planning Room is to ensure that students make more helpful choices in the future, therefore reducing the likelihood of re-visiting the Planning Room.

Should your child visit the Planning Room for a behaviour-related incident they will be required to work through a Peace Car planning sheet.  They will need to identify the problem they were faced with and the emotion they felt at the time this problem arose. The planning sheet provides an opportunity to track two hypothetical choices the student may have made in the same situation. By examining the consequences of these possible actions students are more likely to be able to reflect on which would have been the best option to choose and therefore provide them with more positive action choices and consequences, should a similar problem arise in the future.

It is integral that students discuss their actions and consequences not only with the Planning Room teacher but also with their parent/s. Strong partnerships between home and school will encourage students to take responsibility for their own behaviour and support them in making more appropriate behaviour choices in the future.

Click here to view the Peace Car Planning Room Sheet (pdf, 66 KB)