Services
Research/Survey
To establish the extent, types, location, and intensity of bullying between students.
To provide data on bullying for each school.
To provide information to support awareness raising at staff seminar.
To provide a base line on which evaluation of the success of anti-bullying measures can be based.
Staff Training
Raise awareness and knowledge of bullying.
Inform staff about the extent and location of bullying in each school from survey feedback.
Highlight the effects of bullying on victims, bullies and bystanders.
Offer strategies on how to manage bullying.
Obtain staff consensus about unacceptable behaviour.
Illustrate how to investigate and resolve bullying.
Develop skills for teaching lessons on all forms of bullying.
Parent Talks
Definition of bullying including cyber-bullying.
Knowledge of the characteristics of bullying behaviour.
Knowledge of the effects of bullying.
How to recognize the signs that a young person is being bullied.
How to work with the school to deal with bullying.
Coping strategies as a parent of a victim.
Coping strategies as a parent of a bully.
Cyber-bullying.
Internet safety
Pupil Education
How to define and identify bullying.
How to ask for help.
How to make a class agreement about bullying.
How to act safely as a bystander.
Relational bullying.
Cyber bullying.
Homophobic and transphobic bullying.
Identity based bullying.
Internet safety.
CPD / Training packages for staff
Core training packages can be provided on the following basis:
Full day
Half day
2 Hour "Croke Park" session
Any of these can be combined with a student survey and/or a seminar for parents on the same day.
Objectives of seminars for whole staff are to:
- Describe the legislative and contextual background in Ireland as outlined in legislation and key D.E.S. policy documents.
- Outline how anti-bullying work is best embedded within the school’s SPHE Programme.
- Raise awareness about aspects of bullying in second-level schools.
- Define bullying behaviour between all members of the school community.
- Establish links between bullying problems and discipline problems in schools.
- Outline how anti-bullying work is best embedded within the school’s SPHE Programme.
- Raise awareness about aspects of bullying in second-level schools.
- Define bullying behaviour between all members of the school community.
- Establish links between bullying problems and discipline problems in schools.
- Encourage intervention in bullying incidents.
- Establish consensus among the staff about unacceptable behaviours.
- Establish the unacceptability of bullying behaviour between all members of the school community ie teachers, management, school staff, parents and students.
- Offer strategies to deal with bullying.
- Establish membership of a focussed Care Committee to develop/review/ school policy and plan for programme implementation.
Objectives of whole staff seminar on Investigating and Resolving bullying are that staff will:
- Know how to record incidents of bullying.
- Know when and how to refer on in difficult cases.
- Know when to link with the school’s Code of Discipline and pastoral structure.
- Be able to complete a bullying sociogram.
- Know when and how to refer on in difficult cases.
- Know when to link with the school’s Code of Discipline and pastoral structure.
- Be able to complete a bullying sociogram.
- Be familiar with established interventions strategies as outlined in DES Procedures.
- Understand and know reasons why students are reluctant to tell about bullying.
- Know how to respond when a student discloses bullying.
Objectives of Parent Seminar are to:
- Raise parental awareness about bullying.
- Define bullying and provide examples.
- Raise awareness about the signs and effects of bullying.
- Offer advice about how to support a young person involved in bullying.
- Offer advice about communicating effectively with schools when problems arise.
- Offer workshops about unacceptable behaviours under the school’s anti-bullying bullying policy and achieve consensus about these.
- Address issues of the unacceptability of bullying behaviours to all members of the school community.