Stephanie Bendall is Deputy Head at Maiden Erlegh Faculty in Berkshire. She talks to us about how the varsity has diminished bullying, with the assistance of their college students aged 11-18. They’ve additionally been recognised as an Anti-Bullying Gold Award winner by the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA).
Audit and motion planning
Three years in the past, we began to make use of the ‘All Collectively Programme’ which is now referred to as the ‘United In opposition to Bullying Programme’ developed for colleges by the Anti-Bullying Alliance.
Annually since, we’ve got adopted the identical course of:
- Gathering pupil suggestions through a questionnaire, this permits us to determine gaps and audit our present method
- Implementing the motion plan
- Monitoring progress
- Most significantly, understanding the influence this has had from our pupil’s perspective.
Based mostly on suggestions, this tutorial 12 months we’re going to enhance our investigation course of, to make it extra clear. This can be communicated through our morning meeting programme to all employees and college students.
Involving college students and fogeys
We embody everybody within the faculty group and worth pupil voices to form our method to anti-bullying. You will need to hearken to college students’ perceptions, as these are sometimes totally different to employees. We work carefully with our sixth kind crew and faculty council to listen to their views – we’re presently exploring tips on how to implement their newest set of concepts, together with anti-bullying mascots, assist teams, welfare checks and introductions to our inclusion crew for Yr 7 college students.
In addition to college students, we have interaction with mother and father to verify this work is joined up at house. The headteacher has sought suggestions from mother and father through focus teams and we often talk with them through our publication and weekly headteacher shows. Dad and mom also can contact the devoted anti-bullying e mail deal with to lift any issues.
Our employees obtain coaching annually on totally different points of bullying, akin to how to answer bullying in class. We discuss so much about the usage of inclusive language within the classroom and fostering a tradition of respect between all members of our faculty group. We’re Staff Maiden Erlegh and everybody – mother and father, lecturers and college students are a part of that!
Anti-Bullying Week
Annually we assist Anti-Bullying Week and invite college students to appoint others for his or her kindness. We attempt to discover new issues to do annually, together with flash mobs within the eating room and organising journeys – final 12 months we went to see Depraved the Musical.
We’ve got one other busy and thrilling 12 months forward to implement our college students’ concepts to forestall bullying and are trying ahead to seeing the outcomes.
