Ideas for using the Bullying. No way! website

Bullying. No way! includes lots of information that can be used in many ways.

Whole school communities

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Students, carers, staff, agencies and community groups can use the site for:

  • a common language to identify misuses of power, clarify the issues and address bullying behaviours among all people of all ages;
  • stories and resources that promote understanding and responsive action;
  • developing and reviewing whole school approaches to safer, more supportive school environments.
  • A great information resource for our school community (School leader/administrator)
  • Providing a wide variety of viewpoints to use in different situations. Quite empowering for users. (School leader/administrator)
  • Helping begin conversations with parents, staff, students (School leader/administrator)
  • I have been using the information from the website to advertise in our school newsletter (Parents Page) each fortnight (Ancillary staff)
  • Brings the issue of bullying to the attention of the school community. Explicit message about dealing with bullying (School leader/administrator)
  • I have found the website extremely useful in … providing professional learning to whole school communities and university undergraduates in the area of anti-bullying and anti-harassment. The material is current and reflects the Australian perspective. (Senior Education Officer, Behaviour)
  • Our school is in the process of implementing an anti-bullying policy, and it is my job to organise the launch of the policy. It has given me different ideas. Loved the kids' artwork, stories, poems. (Ancillary staff member)
  • I'm preparing a presentation on behaviour management. The very best info and support I've been able to find has been from the "Bullying no way" website … so unpatronising, thoughtful and just wonderful information and insights, to say nothing of how user friendly it is. When I first looked at it I thought it looked great, but you don't really see how exceptional it is till you start to use it - that's a very different thing! (Community development consultant/researcher)
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Preschool and primary school children

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Teachers and carers can use the site to assist preschool and primary school children to gain awareness and knowledge, develop positive attitudes about themselves and take action for change.

  • … some students from my student Council have looked at it and have formed an ABC (Anti Bullying Club) (Primary school principal)
  • My son gets bulled a lot at school and this will now give us a chance to put a few things together in a more positive way (Parent/carer)
  • I now know how people get hurt feelings so I should not tease people (Student, Year 5-6)
  • Information for a bullying poster for a school assignment (Student, Year 7-8)
  • We'll use ideas we didn't think of for our 'kids teaching kids' activities. Year 6's will teach Years 3 and 4 using a variety of activities. The Facts in particular helped us. And the poetry has provided a useful stimulus (Primary school teacher)

Secondary students

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Secondary students will find the site a useful starting point for discussion, assignments and becoming active participants in shaping their community.

  • It has helped with research on bullying, for our English class (Student, Years 7-8)
  • It has given me a lot of information. (Student, Year 7-8)
  • Information for a bullying poster for a school assignment (Student, Year 7-8)
  • Helped me understand how to make a difference and that there are many different types of bullying. Not just one (Student, Year 9-10)
  • I recently ran a bullying workshop for our school SRC [Student Representatives Council]. I got a lot of ideas from this website and useful statistics (Student, Year 9-10)
  • Yeah, [it helped me] to get in touch with the real me and to find out how all those who are bullied are feeling because it’s always happening to me (Student, Year 11-12)
  • It helps me to stand up for myself, and tell someone about the situation (Student, Year 11-12)
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Parents/carers

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Parents/carers can use the site to develop useful ways of communicating with the school to resolve specific issues and participate in school planning processes for safer and more supportive environments.

  • Encouraging to have back-up, to be able to research via your website and quote relevant aims and objectives when I speak with the principal about bullying issues (Parent/carer)
  • In agitating for change I can use it as an objective source of material to point other parents towards (Parent/carer)
  • My son gets bulled a lot at school and this will now give us a chance to put a few things together in a more positive way (Parent/carer)
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Primary and secondary school teachers and school support staff

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Primary and secondary school teachers and school support staff can use the site as a curriculum resource and discussion starter for a wide range of issues across the curriculum.

  • You have an excellent website. My class and I will be exploring it over the next few weeks and providing things for the chill out zone. (Teacher, Year 5)
  • I will be teaching in the upper school (year 6/7) and believe that I can use this site as a discussion starter for issues that arise in the classroom and playground. The students may be more interested in addressing the issues and reading some of the suggestions if they can do so at their own pace rather than beginning with a whole class discussion where students may deny that there are problems (Teacher)
  • Gives me backup info for classroom activities (Teacher)
  • The forum provides an excellent avenue for information sharing and the sharing of good practice in schools. Along with my colleagues we are promoting this website as much as possible. (Teacher)
  • As a year 8 Coordinator I intend to encourage students to reflect on issues being posted on the bulletin board and to engage in messages (School leader/administrator/teacher)
  • I will be asking our Behaviour Management teacher to let the teachers etc know that it's out there, and encourage them to have a look at it. Congratulations, you are aiding us to make a difference (Ancillary staff member)
  • A fantastic workable complement to our bullying studies (Secondary teacher)
  • We'll add some of our works soon. Great to have an authentic audience (Teacher, Year 5-6)
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Tertiary students and media professionals

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Tertiary students and media professionals can access resources and case studies of effective practice to complement theory and research.

  • I'm writing a piece on bullying after one of our readers told us her story of going through humiliating 'hazing' tasks. It's been an incredibly valuable research tool, easy to navigate and full of interesting and straightforward information. Would it be OK if I quoted some of the young people whose opinions are on the site? I would also like to encourage our website to link to yours so our readers can find you easily. (Editor, Girlfriend magazine)
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