Oakey State High School is committed to nurturing respectful and inclusive relationships within our school community to ensure respect, excellence, participation, personality and safety are evident every day. Our students own their learning, believe in their abilities and strive to achieve their goals.
At Oakey State High School, our aim is to foster a whole school ethos that focuses on positive behaviours and attitudes. To achieve this, Oakey State High School identifies as a PBL school. PBL stands for Positive Behaviour for Learning.
Our school values guide our decision-making, teaching and learning, and are central to our conversations about how we see our community operating and the policies and practices we follow. The first step in doing this is teaching students our values, expectations and behaviours we want them to demonstrate at school.
Our values are:
Respect:
Respect for self and others, regardless of difference or diversity.
Excellence:
Setting goals and working towards achieving our best.
Participation:
Actively engaging in learning and living.
Personality: Being somebody who is dependable and a role model.
Safety: Thinking and behaving safely in relation to self and others.
Oakey State High School's PBL Program contains the following:
- The explicit teaching of our values and expected behaviours by all staff,
- The promotion of our school values and expectations through signage around the school,
- Engaging videos presented on full school assembly,
- The rewarding of students for following our school's values and expectations through VIVOs,
- Encouraging students to SPEAK UP, SPEAK OUT (SUSO) when they see behaviour that is unsafe,
- Active supervision by staff in non-classroom settings, which encourages and reinforces our values and expectations.
- Support planning for students who are struggling to meet our school community's values and expectations.
The Hub
Students seeking support are encouraged to visit the HUB, where their needs will be assessed and handled with support. Case by case management ensures the best support is offered, be it mental, emotional, academic or physical.
Heads of Student Support
Mr Ethan Hearn
Year 7 & Year 12
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Mrs Rachel Waddell
Year 7 & Year 12
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 Mr Fernando Fermino
Year 8 & Year 11
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 Mrs Rachael Lanfranchi
Year 9 & Year 10
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Heads of Student Support are senior teachers who have responsibility for year levels. The Heads of Student Support work with the Student Welfare Team, parents, teachers and students to maximise the success of students in their learning and development of life skills. The primary role of Heads of Student Support is to assist and support students to overcome any barriers they may face in meeting the school's expectations of student behaviour. There are three Heads of Student Support in our school.