Examples of Anti-Bullying Good Practice in Hampshire Schools 2008/9 (Updated 02.05.12)

Prevention

Policy

  • Oakfield Primary (Elizabeth Smith)– Updated policy to appear on website, designed by children.
  • Testwood – Students discuss Anti-Bullying policy.
  • WintonSchool, Andover - Anti-Bullying statement in school code on website.
  • OakLodgeSchool – Codes of Practice for Parents, Staff Action & Student Action.
  • PriestlandsSchool (Richard Glenny) – included representative group from pupil body to review
  • TestValley (Davina Nicholson) – policy leaflet designed by pupils and delivered to all pupils
  • Fairfield Primary (Natalie Hartwell) – School Charter produced by the children
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) - Confidentiality Policy specifically designed for students
  • Cherbourg Primary (Julie Greer) – Bullying and Racist Incident Monitoring form (devised with children to simplify circulated version for primary school)

Anti-Bullying Week activities * see appendix 1 for more details

  • Cams Hill (Ellie Stokell) – Presentations to peers, art display.
  • St Mary’s Junior (Amy Matthews) – Balloon release, friendship wall, link with local special school.*
  • New Milton Junior (Pauline Williams)
  • Oakfield Primary (Elizabeth Smith)
  • LongparishPrimary School – Pledges.
  • NightingalePrimary School (Helen Moriarty) – Anti-Bullying Association lessons plans and bubbles.
  • BridgemaryCommunitySportsCollege – Graffiti wall and email support line for parents and students.
  • Toynbee (Vicky Phillips) – senior pupil presentations/assembly and ‘raise the profile’ work, anti-bullying bands designed by school council.
  • PriestlandsSchool – pupil led assemblies, including Peer Mentors.
  • TestValley (Davina Nicholson)*
  • NorthWalthamPrimary School (Jeff Maidment)*
  • The WestgateSchool, Winchester: (Andy Hider)*
  • VigoCommunityJuniorSchool (Lesley Graham)*
  • WestfieldsJunior School (Jo Patman)*
  • HounsdownSchool (Jenny Durrant)*
  • TadleyCommunityPrimary School (Clare Yockney)*
  • BayHouseSchool (Carolyne Downham and Colette Abery)*
  • OsborneSchool (Penny Parkinson) – assemblies, including linking with Children in Need
  • BrightonHillSchool (Pauline Combes) – powerpoint presentation produced by peer mentors on “Stop and Think: Words can Hurt” (theme for 2011)
  • Bedenham Primary (Jane Evans)

Promoting Anti-Bullying

Amery Hill (Rosemary Underwood) - Including parent leaflet distributed to all pupils.

  • Testwood – Leaflet and trained students.
  • LymingtonJuniorSchool- Anti-Bullying guidance leaflet.
  • WicorPrimary School – `Beat the Bully` children’s leaflet.
  • St Faith’s, Winchester – ECM questionnaire by year 6 pupils led to playground behaviour rules.
  • HounsdownSchool – Citizenship use of `Learning through Action` and Childnet workshop; anti-bullying images from Year 8 used to produce posters.
  • Toynbee (Vicky Phillips) – E Forum for primary feeder schools and anti-bullying workshop for parents.
  • PriestlandsSchool – annually updated leaflets produced by Student Council (guidance and staying safe in cyber world) – regularly flagged up in year assemblies.
  • Test Valley (Davina Nicholson) – Anti-Bullying PSHE sessions taught twice a week for 5 weeks to KS3
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) - Anti-Bullying Procedure Flowchart displayed in all classrooms, PHSE - Anti-Bullying Pledge completion

SEAL – Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning

  • Vigo Junior – SEAL resource school - parental involvement.
  • St Mary`s Juniors Old Basing – SEAL resource school with extensive anti-bullying practice.
  • CherrywoodPrimary School – SEAL resource school – planning.
  • St Marks CofE Primary – SEAL resource school – planning.
  • Toynbee – SEAL programme in years 7 and 8.
  • PriestlandsSchool – resources used in years 7 and 8 PSHCE and transition project used with Pennington Junior school around fear of bullying and ability to build positive relationships.
  • TestValley (Davina Nicholson) – SEAL incorporated in most PSHE lessons for all year groups
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond)

SEAL/PDL & Drama resources

SunHillInfant School (Emma Riley) – History link - Florence Nightingale/Mary Seacole

  • Cherrywood Primary (Jenna Neame) - Literacy link – Cinderella.
  • WeekePrimary School (Elaine Mousely) – Literacy link – writing for different audiences.
  • TadleyCommunitySchool (Amelia Mohain) – Planning.

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RRR – Rights, Respect, Responsibility

  • New MiltonJuniorSchool (Pauline Williams)
  • FairfieldPrimary (Natalie Hartwell)
  • Bedenham Primary (Jane Evans) – including class charter
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond)

MISP - Massage In Schools Project – child-child massage with an ethos of mutual respect as all pupils gain permission from each other before they start.

  • Hart Plain Infant ( Lynn Fairly Ratcliffe)
  • Grayshott Primary (Carol Hartzenberg)
  • Grange Infant (Linda Garwood)

PATHS - Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies – Whole school curriculum for developing self control, awareness of emotions and problem-solving approach.

  • Anstey Junior
  • Shakespeare Infant
  • Sarisbury Infant
  • Hazel Wood Infant

Drama/Dance

  • PetersfieldSchool (Stuart Woods) –“Step in and Stop” performed at conference 2009
  • BartonPeverillCollege
  • Fernhill School (Helen Okoth and Clare Williams) – “Justice for Johnny” about bullying of travellers, performed at conference 2011
  • TottonCollege
  • Bedenham Primary (Di Moran) – winner of Rock Challenge with performance on Bullying
  • Quilley School of Engineering (Clare Williams from EMTAS) – drama about religious bullying and beliefs performed at conference 2012

Use of DCSF “Let’s Fight It Together” video on Cyberbullying

  • Cams Hill
  • PriestlandsSchool – assemblies in Nov 2009 and in year 10 as part of Citizenship local community action (this term’s focus on cyberbullying).

Changing environment

  • Oakfield Primary

Parental Involvement - Family

  • Cherbourg Primary (Julie Greer) – FamilyLearning Modules on Cyberbullying
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) – Purchase and distribution of booklet for parents (101 Tips for parents – Preventing and dealing with bullying)

Training lunchtime staff

  • Manor Field Nursery and Infant School (Janet Pywell) – SEAL primary project focus.

Playground Buddies

  • Whiteley Primary – Playleaders to support lunchtime play (Sarah Hemsley)
  • Bedenham Primary (Jane Evans) – years 5 and 6 lunchtime playleaders
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond)

Study Buddies

  • Toynbee (Vicky Phillips)

Young Interpreters

  • Kings Furlong Infant (Elizabeth Perry)
  • FairfieldPrimary (Natalie Hartwell)

Peer Mentors * more details in Appendix 1

  • JohnHansonSchool (Eleanor Jakeman)
  • CourtMoorSchool (Linda Keegan)
  • ToynbeeSchool(Vicky Phillips)
  • PriestlandsSchool(Richard Glenny) – fully trained, on duty every lunchtime, attached to tutor groups/Year assembles – key role is to raise awareness of what to do if bullying takes place.
  • Hatherden Primary (Amanda Dee)
  • Test Valley (Davina Nicholson) – dividing into working groups and attached to all year 7 tutor groups
  • AbbotswoodJuniorSchool (Fiona Brocklesby)*
  • SwanmoreCommunity College (Claire Barker) – including peer mentors for young carers
  • Brighton Hill School (Pauline Combes)
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) – two specifically trained to present assembly on ‘Stop and Think Words can Hurt’

Circle Time

  • AbbotswoodJuniorSchool (Phil Bagge) – Citizenship/ICT/Circle time Year 6 module - Cyberbullying.

School Councils

  • ToynbeeSchool (Vicky Phillips) – divided into working groups.
  • PriestlandsSchool (Richard Glenny) – review policy and produce leaflets.
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) - Designed ‘Zero Tolerance to Bullying’ poster displayed in all classrooms
  • Bedenham Primary (Jane Evans)
  • Hatherden Junior (Stephen Biggs) – “Hatherden Happiness Handout”
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond) – review of policy

Pupil participation in poster competition (2009)

  • Brookfield Community
  • Castle Primary (Kevin Patterson)
  • CrestwoodCollege (Carol Lee)
  • Farnborough Grange Nursery/Infant (Mrs Kernot) – winning poster, used on Directory of Good Practice
  • Greatham Primary (Miss Badawi)
  • Hart Plain Junior (Fiona Smith)
  • Hook Junior
  • HounsdownSchool (Mrs Farmer)
  • Northern Junior – winning poster, used on conference folder
  • Oaklands (Liz Crane)
  • Perins (Miss Parisi)
  • Portchester (Alec Roberts)
  • Priestlands – winning poster, used on conference bag, plus 2 posters used on HCC documentation
  • The HaylingCollege
  • WestfieldsJuniorSchool

Pupil participation in monologue competition (2009)

  • Court MoorSchool (Naomi Dicken)- winning entry performed at conference
  • EverestCollege (Catherine Clark)
  • The PetersfieldSchool (Stuart Woods)
  • WestgateSchool (Mrs Baker) – 2 winning entries performed at conference

Pupil participation in multi-media competition (2010)

  • OsborneSchool (Mr Dlugokecki) – winning entry show cased at conference
  • Ranvilles Junior (Suzanne Holmes) - winning entry show cased at conference
  • Whiteley Primary (Alex Jeffries-Hill) – winning entry show cased at conference
  • Cams Hill (Ellie Stokell) -winning entry show cased at conference
  • Otterbourne Primary(Carole Reeves)- winning entry show cased at conference
  • TestValley (Davina Nicholson)

Pupil participation in leaflet competition (2011)

  • Rownams StJohnsCEPrimary School - winning entry show cased at conference
  • Bartley CE JuniorSchool - winning entry show cased at conference
  • St Mary’s CE Junior School - winning entries show cased at conference
  • HounsdownSchool - winning entries show cased at conference
  • PortchesterCommunitySchool - winning entry show cased at conference
  • BotleyPrimary School
  • AbbotswoodJuniorSchool
  • Quilley School of Engineering
  • Preston Candover CE Primary School
  • Northern JuniorSchool
  • ColdenCommonPrimary School
  • Botley CE Primary School

Pupil participation in poetry competition (2012)

Knightwood Primary - winning entry read out at conference

Halterworth Community Primary - winning entry read out at conference

Newtown Primary - winning entry read out at conference

Ranvilles Junior - winning entry read out at conference

Brune Park - winning entry read out at conference

Hounsdown - winning entry read out at conference

Henry Cort - winning entry read out at conference

Ringwood - winning entry read out at conference

Itchen College - winning entry read out at conference

Queen Mary’s College - winning entry read out at conference

North Waltham Primary

Botley C of E Primary

Droxford Junior

St John’s Rowlands Castle Primary

Haselworth Primary

Northern Junior

Hook Junior

Winklebury Junior

Greatham Primary

Fairfields Primary

Heatherside Junior

St Mark’s C of E Junior

Quilley

Bay House

Quayside Education Centre

Crofton

Calthorpe Park

Horndean

Cams Hill

Petersfield

Test Valley

Portchester

Make It Count Award winners (2012)

Bay House

Interventions

Reporting Systems

Talk Box

  • Toynbee School (Vicky Phillips) – anti-bullying boxes.
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond)

Support Group Method – G Robinson and B Maines – a group-based process which brings together non-involved children with those suspected of being involved in bullying. A child suspected of being involved in bullying others is not directly accused or sanctioned, but is introduced to a process of understanding the feelings of the bullied and finding ways to improve the situation.

  • North Waltham Primary (Sue Sharman)
  • LordWandsworthCollege (Diana Geig)
  • HorndeanTechnologyCollege (Jo Skeet and Andrea Marr)
  • PortchesterSchool (Kim Domicen)
  • Uplands Primary (Patricia Mitchell)
  • Foxhills Junior (Jan Robinson)

Method of Shared Concern (Pikas) - a counselling-based approach for situations in which a group of pupils have been bullying.

  • Shamblehurst Primary
  • Foxhills Junior (Jan Robinson)
  • John Hanson (Joan Robinson)

Restorative Justice - restorative approaches work to resolve conflict and repair harm.

  • WintonSchool, Andover
  • Cherbourg Primary (Julie Greer) had INSET day and now use restorative practices and restorative conversations.
  • CantellCollege
  • FarnboroughSixthFormCollege (Sarah Bryant)
  • Shamblehurst Primary
  • John Hanson (Joan Robinson)
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) - Conflict Resolution Approach to managing bullying incidents, Mediation and Restorative Justice for both victim and perpetrator
  • Prospect School

Mediation

  • John Hanson (Joan Robinson)
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw)

Peer Mediators

  • Whiteley Primary – work to resolve issues at lunchtime (Sarah Hemsley)

Peer Counsellors

  • ToynbeeSchool (Vicky Phillips) – also training in other secondaries

Circle of Friends

  • Elson Junior (Heidi Adams)
  • Harrison Primary
  • Redlands Primary

Counselling

  • Test Valley (Davina Nicholson) – offered to those experiencing difficulties with bullying
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) - for those who have been bullied and those who have bullied
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond)

ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) work on bullying

  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) – building resilience
  • Anstey Junior (Jenny Jones) – friendship groups, e.g. group of girls who regularly “fall out” and then pick on each other
  • Netley Abbey Junior (Shirley Nicholas-Bond)

Building Resilience through work on: assertiveness, “fogging” (deflecting verbal attacks), friendships and social skills

  • John Hanson (Joan Robinson)
  • Crookhorn (Tracey McCaw) - Social Skills Workshop Programme, bespoke contracts to help students manage their relationships
  • Hatherden Junior (Stephen Biggs)

Resiliency (Friendship, Social Skills and Assertiveness) workshops for parents by Parent Support Adviser

  • Netley Abbey Junior Junior
  • CrestwoodCollege (Theresa Holman)
  • Shakespeare Junior (Theresa Holman)
  • Park View Infant
  • Kempshott Junior
  • Testwood (Louise Evans)

See “Tackling Bullying in Schools” produced by the Anti-Bullying Alliance for more details on many of the approaches mentioned and others not covered

.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/downloads/pdf/aba_tackling_bullying_in_schools.pdf

Appendix 1

Anti-Bullying Week Activities

Amy Matthews, Assistant Headteacher, St. Mary's CE VAJuniorSchool, Basingstoke

At St Mary’s we have had a focussed Anti Bullying Week every year since 2005. We always carry out a range of activities related to anti bullying - these are all cross curricular.

Over the years we have carr8ied out a range of additional work during the week. Examples include:

  • holding a number of celebration assemblies (in family groups from across the school). Parents are invited and the children share the work which they had done during the week. These assemblies are lead by the children.
  • A significant number of Junior children go to our feederInfant school to work with the classes. They have carried out a number of activities exploring the idea of anti bullying and friendship. All children involved love this experience.
  • I always take anassembly at the feederInfant school on the theme of anti bullying and friendship – Junior children normally help with this (drama etc)
  • In 2010 and 2011 we decided to support Children in Need (as these children are often the victims of bullying and this fell in anti bullying week) and challenge the classes to make the biggest spot they could out of 1p and 2p coins. This raised over £600. The children came dressed in spots. In previous years we have held 'Blue Friday' and have held a mass balloon release along with the Infant school as well as make a human chain around the whole school.
  • all children complete an anti bullying survey
  • all parents complete an anti bullying survey. They were also given a copy of the anti bullying policyand guidelines
  • anti bullying family activities are sent home each year for parents to complete at home with their children.

Lesley Graham, SENCo, Vigo Community Junior School

In our school the word Bullying was being over-used to cover any minor incident/falling out, both by the parents and the children. We have developed a definition for the school of what bullying is = STOP (Several Times On Purpose). This was shared with the whole school community and is always used in discussions with children and parents and it has transformed the culture of the school.

·During the AB week The upper school children always take the assemblies. They write their own mini-plays and perform them to the whole school linked to the focus ofthe week e.g. bystanders, cyberbullying etc. This certainly gets the message acrossmuch better than an adult led assembly!We also use the SEAL materials for assembly work within the week.

·Posters are made and displayed around school each year.

·We always support Blue day, but in the last couple of years it has coincided with Children in Need so the children have become spotty for the day too!

·We have produced 2 booklets for parents which go home every year- ‘What to do if your child is being bullied.’ and ‘What to do about Cyber-bullying’. The booklets also include website addresses to sign post parents to useful sites.

·We have also produced 2 booklets for the children and theyreceive a copy each AB Week -‘What to do if you are being cyber-bullied’ and ‘Beat the Bullies’

·We use questionnaires to parents and children to regularly monitor what is happening in school and, if necessary, have follow up focus group interviews to unpick any incidences that may be causing concern to parents and children.

Carolyne Downham and Colette Abery, Bay House School (2011)

  • Selling beat bullying bands (50p each)
  • Lessons in citizenship
  • Pupil-led assemblies

Andy Hider, Pupil Support Worker,The Westgate School, Winchester (2010)

1. RAT campaign! A couple of years ago we put up around the school some
pictures of a rat. This sparked conversation amongst the pupils and they
started to wonder what it was all about. This was a week before our anti
bullying week. On the actual start of the week, we put up posters which
explained what RAT was about. We used three simple things to encourage
people to do, when they are bullied or see bullying happening:
R - Record down what is happening - get a written account of names and
dates and what is being done.
A - Ask for help - at our school it is really easy to ask for help. My
office has a post box outside which students can pop notes into.
T - Turn away from whats happening - don't get sucked into the comments
and get angry or sad - be confident in who you are and walk away knowing
that the bully has the issues.
This has worked really well in school and every student is reminded of
the RAT every year. (see attched poster)
2. CHILLAX - we offer a lunchtime club just for Year 7's which is a safe
and secure environment for them to hang out in. It has videos, computers
and board games there and also has some of our peer supporters and myself
who staff it.
3. Peer Supporters - we train our Year 10 and 11 students up in peer
supporting. They attend the peer supporters conference each year and also
receive in house training on listening skills, communication and other
key issues. They then are used around school in a variety of ways.
4. Pupil Support Worker - my role in school is very unique to schools.
Full time in the school, with my own office, I am simply called Andy by
the pupils and wear casual clothes. This breaks down barriers and allows
students to self reffer to me to chat about whats troubling them. I also
run lunch clubs, hang out around the school, co-ordinate group work, one
to one counselling and offer support and encouragement where I can. My
time is very flexible, allowing me to come in and out of situations very
quickly.
5. Anti Bullying Board - we have a huge board near the reception of the
school which promotes key websites, tips and info on combatting bullying.
This is in a main area of the school and is read by many students. I also
have a board outside my office which is regularly changed to promote
different issues.