Thursday 17th March 2011:

The next part of Chapter 11 goes on to describe how to develop a school strategy against bullying. The strategy mentioned includes the stages: Recognition, Investigation, Consultation, Implementation and Evaluation and Modification. Stage 1, Recognition talks about possibly having a school council or board where bullying issues can be discussed and recognised, and that having pupils as part of this can help to really understand the issues. Stage 2, Investigation, talks about how maybe surveys could be completed by pupils and then studied to perhaps discover certain aspects which require special attention such as particular age groups or places where bullying is common. The next stage, Consultation, is where pupils should be able to talk about issues and problems and how they feel they can be prevented so that the actual individuals involved in the bullying have a voice. The final stages, Implementation and Evaluation and Modification, focus on supervision and constant implementation of the previous stages as this is a continuous process. It also mentions counselling. I think that by looking further at these stages, I will be able to think more about how to prevent bullying and how to give out these messages in my final pieces.

Target for today: Finish reading Chapter 11 in ‘Bullying’ book – ‘Helping Victims’.

Target for tomorrow: Think of possible names and taglines for my organisation as well as what I want my organisation to do.