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School Culture Partnership

Real Schools

A Real Schools partnership is a three-year program to implement restorative practices as the underpinning methodology to build a school culture that is strong, relational, and built on trust.

  • ACT
  • NSW
  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • Tas
  • Vic
  • WA

Pricing: Paid

Origin: Developed in Australia for Australian schooling contexts

Affiliations: WA Department of Education, NESA accredited; Approved elsewhere: Be You, SA

Product type: Whole school approach or initiative

Contact details

Real Schools
ABN: 44 667 969 897

https://realschools.com.au/partnerships/

info@realschools.com.au

Focus areas

  • Positive relationships

  • Belonging and inclusion

  • Bullying and cyber-bullying

  • Mental health literacy and life skills

  • Self-regulation and engagement

  • Resilience and optimism

  • Self-esteem and body image

Curriculum alignment

Prospective users

Audience: Whole school universal (Tier 1)

Context: School or centre-based

Main beneficiaries: Foundation/Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 10, Year 11, Year 12

Delivery style: Delivered by program staff

Aims & approach

Real Schools delivers a three-year partnership to embed Restorative Practices in primary, secondary and special schools.

An experienced, Principal-level Expert Facilitator works with schools to deliver professional learning, in-class support, leadership mentoring, parent engagement, teacher coaching and exemplary resourcing and measurement tools.

The Restorative Practices methodology enhances student wellbeing, agency and voice.

Aims and objectives

  • To integrate restorative practices, and specifically RP2.0, through a partnership with Real Schools.
  • To foster a strong culture, build effective relationships, resolve conflict in healthy, consistent ways, improve student behaviour and reduce bullying incidences.
  • To deliver positive shifts in effective classroom behaviour, connectedness to the school, sense of wellbeing, and a reduction in absenteeism and suspensions.

Implementation support

  • Access to professional facilitator, instructor or mentor
  • Implementation training webinars or modules
  • Ongoing helpdesk, email or phone support
  • Regular webinars or access to community of professional practice

Evidence

Real Schools implements Restorative Practices as its underpinning methodology, which research has found to be linked to positive student wellbeing outcomes.

Evidence from systematic reviews of the Real Schools program demonstrate that it is effective in embedding Restorative Practices in partner schools. Specific evaluations conducted in an educational context with partner schools demonstrate numerous positive impacts on student mental health and wellbeing, which school leaders attribute to Real Schools partnerships.

The impact of the program is further supported by its various strengths identified by parents/carers and staff members, alongside partner principals' responses to the Student Wellbeing Survey 2024. A pre- and post-intervention study with partner schools also found improvements across various aspects of student behaviour.