In writing, this anti-bullying policy sets out the framework within which the whole school community of Daffodil International School manages issues relating to bullying and the school’s strategy to prevent bullying behavior.
Parents and students have a vital role and responsibility in helping the school to prevent and address school-based bullying behavior and to deal with any negative impact within the school or bullying behavior that occurs elsewhere.
Target 4.a. Of Sustainable Development Goal 4 on Education, focuses on providing safe and non-violent learning environments for all children and adolescents.
Unsafe learning environments reduce the quality of education for all learners. Affected learners may avoid or participate less in class or drop out of school altogether. They are at increased risk of anxiety, psychological stress, and depression. Violence, which includes bullying, occurs in classrooms, playgrounds, toilets, changing rooms, on the way to or from schools, and online. It can be carried out by students, and educational and non-educational staff; and affects the victims, bystanders, and perpetrators themselves. leo.
The policy addresses bullying behaviour, harassment and sexual harassment.
This policy applies to all members of the school community including teaching staff, students, parents, guardians, ancillary staff and visitors.
The policy will apply to several periods/activities including, but not limited to:
Furthermore, the policy applies outside the school if the behaviour impacts any person’s participation in our school. It deals with negative behaviours and attitudes which arise or occur in school and which affect the progress and sense of emotional well-being of students or other people at the school. The policy will outline the necessary steps to be taken when a bullying incident is reported
Daffodil International School believes that each student has the right to an education free from fear and intimidation. Bullying is not tolerated. Bullying can be a secret activity and difficult to detect. To ensure that no student should suffer in this way, communication between home and school is very important. It is a priority issue identified by the staff, students, and parents
To offer quality and affordable international education in a conducive environment where students are raised to become responsible leaders with high moral standards.
To raise morally upright global citizens.
Bullying behavior is deliberate and repeated aggression, verbal, psychological, or physical, conducted by an individual or group against any person.
Bullying may take the forms of verbal bullying (attacks of a highly personal or sexual nature, which may be directed at a student’s family, culture, race, or religion, or the spreading of malicious rumors), physical bullying, gesture bullying (non-verbal threatening gestures which convey intimidatory or frightening messages), isolation, exclusion, extortion (demands for money, possessions or equipment, or forcing a student to steal), intentional diminishment, or cyber-bullying (the use of web-pages, e-mails and especially text messages to abuse, intimidate or attack a student).
Isolated or once-off incidents of intentional negative behavior, including a one-off offensive or hurtful text message or other private messaging, do not fall within the definition of bullying and should be dealt with, as appropriate, in accordance with the school’s code of behavior.
However, in the context of this policy, placing a once-off offensive or hurtful public message, image, or statement on a social network site or another public forum where that message, image, or statement can be viewed and/or repeated by other people will be regarded as bullying behavior.
It is not bullying when:
(1a) Students of about the same age and strength have the occasional quarrel or conflict.
(1b) A member of staff offers constructive or fair criticism of a student’s behaviour or work performance.
Harassment: any form of unwanted conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or offensive environment for the victim.
Sexual harassment: any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or offensive environment for the victim.
Harassment: any form of unwanted conduct that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or offensive environment for the victim.
Sexual harassment: any form of unwanted verbal, non-verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature that has the purpose or effect of violating a person’s dignity and creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or offensive environment for the victim.
All members of the school community, including external facilitators, are subject to this code, particularly the following relationships.
Student to Student.
Student to any Staff member.
Staff member to Student.
Parent to Staff member.
Staff member to Parent
Staff member to Staff member.
The following are some examples of unacceptable behavior. This list is not exhaustive. Similarly, unacceptable behaviors may be considered bullying
Name-calling /using graffiti e.g. “Gay”, “queer”, “lesbian”, etc…
Spreading rumors about a person’s sexual orientation.
Taunting a person of a different sexual orientation.
Discrimination, prejudice, comments, or insults about color, nationality, culture, social class, religious beliefs, or ethnic background.
This involves manipulating relationships as a means of bullying. Behaviors include:
Whispering in a company to exclude another.
Malicious gossip.
Isolation & exclusion.
Ignoring, and turning others against a student.
Excluding from the group.
Taking someone’s friends away.
Students who are being bullied may develop feelings of insecurity and extreme anxiety and thus become more vulnerable. Self-confidence may be damaged with the consequent lowering of self-esteem. While they may not talk about what is happening to them their suffering is indicated through changes in mood and behavior. Bullying may occasionally result in suicide. It is therefore important to be alert to changes in behavior as early as intervention is desirable.
The outcomes of bullying and harassment on the victim are often manifest in the following ways:
In investigating and dealing with bullying, the teacher will exercise his/her professional judgment to determine whether bullying has occurred and how best the situation might be resolved in keeping a reference to school policy
All reports, including anonymous reports of bullying, must be investigated and dealt with by the relevant teacher. In that way, pupils will gain confidence in reporting. This confidence factor is of vital importance. It should be made clear to all pupils that when they report incidents of bullying they are not considered to be telling tales but are behaving responsibly.
Teachers should take a calm, unemotional problem-solving approach when dealing with incidents of alleged bullying behavior reported by pupils, staff, or parents.
When analyzing incidents of bullying behavior, the relevant teacher should seek answers to questions of what, where, when, who and why. This should be done in a calm manner, setting an example of dealing effectively with a conflict in a non-aggressive manner.
Staff, Parents and pupils have a particularly important role and responsibility in helping the school to prevent and address school-based bullying behaviour and to deal with any negative impact within a school of bullying behaviour that occurs elsewhere.
The education and prevention strategies (including strategies specifically aimed at cyberbullying and identity-based bullying including in particular, homophobic and transphobic bullying) that will be used by the school are as follows:
School policies need to be consistent with one another, within the framework of the overall School Plan. Relevant school policies already in place, being developed or reviewed should be examined by reference to the Anti-Bullying Policy and any implications which it has for them should be addressed.
The following policies may be among those considered:
School policies need to be consistent with one another, within the framework of the overall School Plan. Relevant school policies already in place, being developed or reviewed should be examined by reference to the Anti-Bullying Policy and any implications which it has for them should be addressed.
The following policies may be among those considered:
School policies need to be consistent with one another, within the framework of the overall School Plan. Relevant school policies already in place, being developed or reviewed should be examined by reference to the Anti-Bullying Policy and any implications which it has for them should be addressed.
The following policies may be among those considered:
* Parents
* Any staff member with whom the student feels comfortable
* Friends who will speak on your behalf
* Deputy Principal.
* Tutor or Head of Department.
* Guidance Counsellor.
* Student ‘Mentor’
* A direct approach to the teacher at an appropriate time, e.g. after class, hand notes up with homework.
* Make a phone call to the school or a trusted teacher in the school.
* Email the school
* Get a parent or friend to tell on your behalf.
* Parents can inform the school.
* Witnesses can inform the appropriate person.
* Administer a confidential questionnaire to all students during the year.
It is important to note that records of all incidents of bullying and action taken to resolve them will be kept.
If a student informs you of an incident of bullying affecting either themselves or a friend, follow these steps:
Actions may include the following and may incorporate elements of 1 or more of the six main responses to addressing bullying behavior
* Have the student reporting bullying write down the behaviors and how it is affecting them as early as
* Talk with the alleged bully about their behavior and their experiences of incidents.
* Have the alleged bully write down an account of their behaviors and their effects as early as possible.
* Challenge bullying behavior as being unacceptable.
* Discuss possible solutions with both parties separately/together if appropriate.
* Inform the Head of the Department of the incident
* Refer complainant to Guidance Counsellor.
* Make a further appointment to discuss the situation with the complainant and/or other relevant individuals.
* Record details of the complaint on an official form.
* The evidence will be evaluated by management and fair appropriate action will be taken in accordance with the code of behavior.
* The person reporting the incident must be protected from w
Procedures to be followed by the HR POLICY or Labour act.
The Anti-Bullying policy shall indicate the individual roles, responsibilities, and obligations of staff, students, and parents. These roles and responsibilities shall be clearly outlined to existing staff and shall be communicated to all new staff at induction.
Students shall be made aware of their roles and responsibilities.
The people who have responsibility for implementing each action and their roles are outlined as follows:
Principal and Deputy Principal: The Principal and Deputy Principal shall have overall control and responsibility for the implementation of the policy including its publicity at staff meetings, and meetings with parents and the Principal will be responsible for its ratification. Management will liaise with staff regularly regarding bullying behavior. A file of incident reports shall be collected as a record of bullying behavior. When a
bullying incident has been reported Management together with the Head of the Department will be responsible for the disciplinary action of any student accused of bullying behavior. Where necessary they will be responsible for contacting parents and the relevant authorities.
* The Head of the Department together with Management will be responsible for the disciplinary action of any student accused of bullying behavior. Where necessary they will be responsible for contacting parents and the relevant The Head of the Department will be responsible for recording all information regarding all incidents and meetings.
* Subject Teacher: Will report any bullying behavior to the relevant member of staff, Management, or Pastoral Care Team. The teacher must document incidents of bullying behavior within their classroom or outside of it e.g. corridors etc. Teachers will fully participate and facilitate meetings and promotion of the anti-bullying policy. All teachers must be constantly vigilant of any bullying behavior with the children under their care.
* Values and Ethics Coordinator: The PSHE coordinator shall along with the SPHE teachers promote awareness of what bullying is in PSHE classes.
* Guidance Counsellor: The Guidance Counsellor shall be responsible for highlighting awareness of anti-bullying initiatives and bullying behavior within the school and related activities. He/she will also have the responsibility of reporting incidents and dealing with the counseling of the relevant student/s.
* School Management Board: Shall have the overall responsibility for implementing the anti-bullying policy. They will facilitate the promotion and awareness of it throughout the school. The Board confirms that appropriate supervision and monitoring policies and practices are in place to both prevent and deal with bullying behavior and to facilitate early intervention where possible.
* Student: The student will have the responsibility of complying with the anti-bullying policy. The student will also have the responsibility of reporting incidents of bullying that they are subject to or have witnessed. The student will also have the responsibility to participate actively in anti-bullying initiatives. The student along with the parent/guardian will have the responsibility of signing the anti-bullying policy and returning to the school and therefore agreeing to be bound by it.
* Parent/Guardian: The parent or guardian will have the responsibility of upholding the recommendations within the policy and accepting the sanctions held within it. Where incidents of bullying are occurring to their child, they will have the responsibility of reporting this to the Principal, Deputy Principal, Departmental Head, or counselor.
* Staff members: shall have the responsibility of reporting all incidents of bullying behavior that they have witnessed or are aware of in keeping with the Anti- Bullying Policy.
This policy and its implementation will be reviewed by the School Board once in every school year. Written notification that the review has been completed will be made available to school personnel, published on the school website and provided to the Parent’s Association.
Subject teacher, tutor, or any teacher. Head of Department/ Deputy Principal
Challenge the behaviour as being unacceptable Speak to students separately and try to resolve the issue Keep a record
Teacher will follow up progress with: victim and bully, bystanders or others involved
Serious talk with student(s) re effects of their behavior. Verbal warning. Student/s involved warned to stop. Seek verbal agreement re future behaviour
Outline a fair outcome if appropriate
e.g. an apology, return of property etc
Any teacher, Tutor, Head of Department involved may be involved
The Incident was investigated by the Head of Department Principal/ Deputy principal informed. Both sets of parents are informed by the Head of the Department Keep a record. The Head of the Department follows up on progress with the victim and bully, bystanders, or others Involved.
Serious talk with the student re: behavior and future behavior. Sign written agreement re future behavior. Parents/Guardians sign a written agreement regarding future behavior Speak with the school counselor. Detention /other agreed sanctions from the school’s Code of Behaviour.
Monitor future behavior
The principal or Deputy Principal, Head of Department, or Counsellor may be involved
The incident may be referred to the School Board at the discretion of the principal
The Incident was investigated by the Head of Department Principal/ Deputy principal informed. Both sets of parents are informed by the Head of the Department Keep a record. The Head of the Department follows up on progress with the victim and bully, bystanders, or others Involved.
Detention / Suspension / other agreed sanction from the school’s Code of Behaviour. Parents are met and conditions are set regarding the student’s future behavior and recommendations are made. Counselling offered.
The future of the student in the school may be considered
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