Rating description:
- Fully met: Pupils and parents are involved in regularly reviewing response strategies
- Partially met: Pupils and parents are involved in reviewing response strategies occasionally but not regularly. Or it does not involve both pupils and parents.
- Not yet met: Pupil and parents are not involved in reviewing response strategies
Tips:
- Young people tell us of their need to be involved and feel they have agency in their schools practice in relation to bullying.
- Schools do this in a variety of ways. 1) during Anti-Bullying Week. You can get feedback and involve young people in Anti-Bullying Week activities. 2) through a school council: ensure that your school council is representative of the school community. For example, do you have children with SEN in the group and from race and faith minority groups? 3) via formal feedback or suggestion boxes 4) via assembly presentation and takeover days.
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You can find out more about effective anti-bullying strategies from the Department of Education here.
Schools that took part in our programme said:
Our anti-bullying ambassadors meet with the anti-bullying staff leads once a week to discuss what is working well and what needs to improve. Parents /carers can now discuss concerns over bullying in the school or suggest areas for improvement through the parent questionnaire, parent coffee mornings, weekly phone calls and the anonymous reporting form on the website.
This is an on-going project to find a way to communicate possible bullying incidents and behaviours to parents and to show the consequences. We have also trialed some mediation techniques with the school well being support worker that has gone well.
We have learned that children are one of the most important voices to consider when planning anti-bullying strategies. As they are the ones experiencing the strategies, it is incredibly important that they are a part of the reviewing process. We have also learnt that when children are given important roles, they love giving their opinion.