Year 7 Info booklet - Wentworth High School

A Tell Us CultureAt Wentworth High School we adopt a zero tolerance approach to bullying of any kind withinschool. We work hard as staff and students to educate ourselves further about bullying and nonbullying behaviour which can sometimes be seen by some pupils as such and what we can all do asa school community to stamp it out.“Bullying is behaviour by an individual or group, repeated over time, that intentionally hurtsanother individual or group either physically or emotionally. Bullying can take many forms (forinstance, cyber-bullying via text messages or the internet), and is often motivated by prejudiceagainst particular groups, for example on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, orbecause a child is adopted or has caring responsibilities. It might be motivated by actualdifferences between children, or perceived differences”As a school we have adopted the following initiatives to combat bullying:Department of Education, updated July 20111) Clear escalation and resolution of reported bullying incidents.All staff members have been trained on how to handle and escalate reports of bullyingfrom students in the following way:Is it bullying? Does the incident have the following characteristics?- Repetition – Not one off incidents, frequent over a prolonged period of time- Intent – Behaviour deemed purposeful not accidental- Clear victim – behaviour targeted at specific individual or group- Power imbalanced – Unequal power causing stress to one partyWhich type of bullying is it?Verbal Emotional Cyber Physical* Staff report incident to Achievement Coordinator of victim* Achievement Coordinator or Senior Leadership Line Manager informs MissO’Farrell (Anti Bullying Champion) of incident or issues.* Miss O’Farrell issues ACO or SLT with recording sheet for completion* Miss O’Farrell works with victim and bully to resolves the issues and appliesappropriate sanctions.