At Exford, these qualities are really important:
We place great emphasis on everyone at Exford, students, staff and our community, treating everyone else with courtesy and respect and we have high expectations in relation to behaviour and how we respond to different situations. We help the children to develop social and communication skills, which help them to deal with a range of situations they will encounter. We, as the adults in our community (staff and parents), need to set and model the best example possible for our students in all our daily interactions.
Our school values are clearly articulated and used in our conversations with our children in all contexts. Our Student of the Week certificates are awarded for one of these values and the ‘Budsies’ pictured below were designed by students in a school-wide competition to design our Values Super-heroes. We award ‘Gotchas’ to students in connection to displaying the values and the children can trade their Gotchas for a prize or experience (e.g. lunch with the staff member of their choice).
