Restorative Practice is a relational approach to school life grounded in beliefs about equality, dignity, mana and the potential of all people. At Heretaunga College we started on the Restorative Practice journey six years ago and are always working on improving our skills in this area as we feel that it will have a hugely positive impact on our students as they go off into the world.
The Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) Restorative Practice model focuses on building and maintaining positive, respectful relationships across the school community and offers school staff best-practice tools and techniques to restore relationships when things go wrong. By building and maintaining positive, respectful relationships within a school, staff to staff, staff to student and student to student, issues are more easily managed.
PB4L Restorative Practice is based on a set of best practice tools and techniques to support a consistent and sustainable approach to managing positive, respectful relationships within the school.