School Name
Our School Anti-Bullying Plan
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Our School Anti-Bullying Plan
Detail the strategies the school will implement to maintain a positive
climate of respectful relationships where bullying is less likely to occur.
This plan outlines the processes for preventing and
responding to student bullying in our school and reflects
the Bullying: Preventing and Responding to Student
Bullying in Schools Policy of the New South Wales
Department of Education and Communities.
Prevention
Explain how representation from the whole school community has been
ensured. Explain how and at what stages you have/you will engage the
school community in developing, implementing, evaluating and reviewing
this plan.
Detail the strategies and programs the school will implement for bullying
prevention.
Detail how the school is embedding anti-bullying messages into each
curriculum area and in every year level.
Early Intervention
Statement of purpose
Enter a statement of purpose that outlines the key beliefs or principles
about bullying behaviour and the aims of the school on which this Antibullying Plan is based.
Detail the early intervention strategies and programs your school will
implement for students who are identified as being at risk of developing
long-term difficulties with social relationships and those students who are
identified at or after enrolment as having previously experienced bullying
or engaged in bullying behaviour.
Protection
Explain the understandings the school has reached about bullying
behaviour that captures all forms of bullying including cyberbullying.
Explain what is considered by the school community to be bullying
behaviour, how that behaviour is viewed by the school and what the
school will do about it.
Explain the understandings the school has developed about the individual
and shared responsibilities of students, parents, caregivers and teachers
in preventing and responding to bullying behaviour.
Response
Detail the strategies your school will implement to empower the whole
school community to recognise and respond appropriately to bullying,
harassment and victimisation and behave as responsible bystanders.
Detail the procedures for reporting incidents of bullying at your school.
Detail how these procedures will be publicised to your school community.
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Explain departmental appeal procedures and provide information about
the Complaints Handling Policy.
Detail the procedures and timeframes that your school will implement
when an incident of bullying is reported to the school.
Detail the strategies the school will use to identify patterns of bullying
behaviour. Explain how the school will respond to such patterns.
Detail the processes that will be used at your school to match planned
combinations of interventions to the particular incident of bullying.
Detail how your school will promote and publicise this Anti-bullying Plan
including how it will be made widely available to the school community
available on any school website.
Detail the strategies and programs your school will implement to support
any student who has been affected by, engaged in or witnessed bullying
behaviour.
Detail the processes your school will use to monitor and evaluate the
effectiveness of its Anti-bullying Plan.
Explain the school’s plans for providing regular updates, within the
bounds of privacy legislation, to parents and caregivers about the
management of bullying incidents that have been reported to the school.
Explain how your school will report annually to the school community on
the effectiveness of the Anti-bullying Plan.
Explain the school’s procedures for reporting incidents involving assaults,
threats, intimidation or harassment to the police.
Explain how and when (at least every three years) your school will review
this Anti-bullying Plan with the school community.
Additional Information
Explain the procedures the school will use with regard to contacting the
Child Wellbeing Unit or Community Services where appropriate.
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and the School Liaison Police officer (SLP) where appropriate.
Enter here contact information for appropriate support services such as
Kids Helpline
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Principal’s comment
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developed the plan.
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developed the plan.
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School contact information
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