Staff
Building a safe and supportive school and preventing bullying
Administrators
- Provide leadership in the development of whole school policies and strategies.
- Encourage school community members to see themselves as valued members working collaboratively towards shared goals.
- Include all staff in the planning and implementation of school policy.
- Provide staff with professional development to ensure that expertise is developed in the school.
- Develop procedures for carers to inform school protocols.
- Manage resources to enable implementation of policies and strategies.
- Develop interagency protocols. Review where necessary.
- Link strategies for students to broader welfare programs.
Teachers
- Manage classes in ways that enhance peer relations and demonstrate respect and valuing of all students within a supportive environment.
- Integrate supportive, inclusive problem solving strategies into all curriculum activities.
- Incorporate teaching practices that support students in identifying, analysing and resolving immediate and long-term challenges to their own and others' safety and rights.
All staff
- Take responsibility for establishing close relationships between school staff and the full diversity of carers and students.
- Build a community of learners responsible for student learning outcomes.
- Modify and monitor practices to achieve social justice.
- Encourage students to develop values and ethics in their relationships with others.
- Identify improvements to student/staff and student/student relations.
- Include young people in decision making about policies and programs designed to assist them.
- Regularly review class and playground cultures to improve peer relations and reduce bullying, harassment, discrimination and violence through early intervention responses involving teachers, administrators and/or specialist staff.
- Identify and address signs of discriminatory behaviour. Never turn a blind eye.
- Know how to respond effectively to bullying incidents.
- Work proactively in a team to assist students at risk.
- Maintain a duty of care in class, the playground and between classes.
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