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Tasmania – news – 14/07/08

Values education at Riverside Primary School, Launceston, Tasmania
Riverside Primary School has been exploring how to include values education at their school and has also hosted a number of different sessions around an issue linked to values education: the prevention of bullying in schools.

Riverside Primary School has:

  • examined its mission statement and practices
  • reviewed other initiatives that are linked to values education
  • examined how to build student resilience and self esteem and developed a plan of action
  • explored student responsibilities within the school and within the community
  • explored how values education could be articulated explicitly.

 

Riverside Primary School has hosted a number of different sessions around an issue linked to values education, the prevention of bullying in schools. These have included:

  • West Tamar Primary Schools - Riverside, Beaconsfield, Exeter and Trevallyn - sent a delegation of 15 students each to participate in a review of positive behaviour in the schools. In this one day workshop, the students together with five teachers, examined current practices in the schools and looked at ways in which they could improve these. Each school was requested to return to their school and review their Anti-Bullying Policy.
  • Riverside Primary invited the Community Police to talk to the Grade 3-6 Assembly (approximately 380 students) about cyberbullying. Following this session class representatives (15 students, 3 teachers) met to devise a definition and safeguards to be incorporated into Riverside’s Anti-Bullying and Anti-Harassment Policy. Definitions and safeguards were taken back to each class to be ratified.
  • Peer mediated student run assemblies for Prep to Grade 2 and Grade 3-6, on different forms of bullying and ways in which the school can tackle this problem, were held for all 600 plus students in our school.
  • Grade 3 to 6 class representatives ran a session where the students wrote and compiled a Mobile Phone Policy, which will be adopted by the school in 2008. The policy was taken back to classes and to the Parent Association to be ratified.
  • Parents were informed of ongoing activities through the school Newsletter.