Ideas for using the Bullying. No way! website
Bullying. No way! includes lots of information that can be used
in many ways.
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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.
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- 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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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.
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- … 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)
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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.
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- 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 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.
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- 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 can
use the site as a curriculum resource and discussion starter for a
wide range of issues across the curriculum.
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- 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 can access resources and
case studies of effective practice to complement theory and research.
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- 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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