Rating description:
- Fully met: The school has a comprehensive action plan in place which is regularly reviewed and updated and takes a whole school approach.
- Partially met: The school has an action plan but it is not regularly reviewed and/or updated and does not take a whole school approach.
- Not yet met: The school does not have an anti-bullying action plan.
Tips:
- We know that whole school change becomes significantly easier when schools review their anti-bullying practice and prepare an action plan with clear and realistic objectives to seeing change.
- We suggest that this action plan has the input from the whole-school community. This might be via pupil, parent and staff questionnaires. It might be that you work with children on an area of your activity.
- Actions plans are much better if they review whole school practice.
Examples:
A school who took part in our previous programme said:
Action Plan, in my opinion the most important resource available, we were able to identify team priorities and how we could target the areas specific to each individual class, through Personal, Social and health Education (PSHE) sessions as well as curriculum time and the activities planned during Anti-Bullying Week. These activities were then carried out throughout the year, monitored by the Senior Leadership Team through termly discussions in staff meetings and through evidence collection, culminating in the questionnaire being completed a second time at the end of the Summer term.
Students via the student council and SAP groups have regularly reviewed our policy, systems and procedures. Previously an OCC audit has been used to develop work in this important area and this year our participation in the All Together School programme has helped further support the development of this work.
The production of this plan has put anti-bullying high on my agenda as a new deputy and will enable me to follow up the actions each academic year.