PH4L - Positive Heroes for Learning
Cambridge Middle School completed Tier 1 implementation within the Positive Behaviour for Learning (PB4L) framework, achieving results above the national benchmark in consecutive School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET) evaluations.
As our school values of Happiness, Excellence, Relationships, and Opportunities (HERO) are at the heart of everything we do, we now use the term PH4L – Positive Heroes for Learning. PH4L reflects our commitment to promoting positive behaviour through our HERO values and creating a school culture where every learner can thrive.
While PB4L provided a strong foundation through school-wide systems and practices, Cambridge Middle School has continued to build on and extend this work through our partnership with a Restorative Practice Leader from the University of Waikato.
This ongoing journey strengthens our focus on relationships, accountability, inclusion, and belonging, ensuring our approach to behaviour and wellbeing is centred on learning, connection, and the success of every student.
What you will see at CMS
- School-Wide Expectations: Four positively stated universal behaviour expectations - HERO.
- Teaching Behaviour: Behaviour expectations are taught directly to students in classroom time. Lesson respond to need.
- Positive Reinforcement: Systems and practices to encourage positive behaviour, including high levels of positive reinforcement and positive teacher attention and feedback to strengthen those behaviours.
- Consistent Consequences Procedures in place to discourage inappropriate behaviour. These include the enforcement of predictable consequences consistently and fairly.
- Data-based Decision Making Discipline data will be systematically gathered, analysed and used to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of PB4L systems and practices.