Year 7 Info booklet - Wentworth High School

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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.
2) Implementing ‘Keep kids Safe’ Bullying reporting text service.Following a meeting with students to enable pupil voice to be heard they came up with theidea of a bullying text service they could use to report any incidents of bullying that theywitness or are involved in. The text service comes straight to school and is passed to MissO’Farrell for follow up. Texts can be anonymous or senders can leave their name shouldthey wish. All students have been given the number, it is advertised all around school andwill be printed in the students’ planners in September.3) Refining bullying report forms.Following the revision of the school’s Anti Bullying Policy we decided to redraft the bullyingreport form. Student feedback informed us that the previous form was not discreet enoughfor students to feel comfortable using. We made the form smaller in size and white incolour to ensure anyone can feel confident in completing one. These forms can be given toany member of staff, the main school office or placed in the bullying box which is located ina discreet part of the library.4) Introducing student Anti Bullying Ambassadors.We have this year elected 5 students from across every year group to act as Anti BullyingAmbassadors for the school. These students have the knowledge of how to escalatebullying incidents reported to them in the correct manner and are well known to allstudents in school. The idea is that any victims of bullying may feel more confidentapproaching a peer rather than a teacher.5) Raising Anti Bullying Awareness.All students have been part of anti bullying assemblies and form period activities whichallow them to discuss bullying in all of its forms and educate them to identify thedifference between bullying and non bullying behaviour, and how bullying can affectpeople.6) Wentworth High School holds The BIG AccreditationThis nationally recognised award shows that school takes bullying and inclusion seriously.It shows we are able to:-• Work to an externally agreed standard• Employ consistent and updated good practice• Actively include children and young people in anti bullying practice• Work to ensure that every child can fulfil their potential and enjoy community activities,without fear of being bullied
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Year 7 Info booklet - Wentworth High School

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