Students
Building a safe and supportive school and preventing bullying
- Develop and encourage understanding, respect and valuing of self and others.
- Recognise potential bullying, harassment, discrimination and violence
issues and advocate for changes to:
- risk areas within and beyond the school site
- risks associated with particular learning activities
- school practices that may, inadvertently, encourage bullying, harassment, discrimination and violence.
- Be active in the development of school policies, strategies and peer response systems - for example, peer support, peer counselling or buddy systems.
- Support school community policies and expectations and encourage other students to do so.
- Identify trustworthy adults and student leaders who are in a position to deal with or report the issues.
- Encourage effective peer support networks.
- Support other students to use problem-solving strategies.
- Learn and use effective bystander responses.
- Encourage student leaders and representative councils to give issues of bullying, harassment, violence and discrimination a priority.
- Share concerns and suggestions to contribute to a cycle of continuous improvement.
Copyright | Disclaimer | Privacy
© 2008.
For copyright information about this website, and circumstances
in which
reproductions of this website are permitted, please visit our
Copyright Notice.
Print out the