Safety - ISE Secondary

Safeguarding

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Anti-bullying policy

Every child has the right to develop and learn in a safe school environment. The school strives to ensure a safe school environment for all its students and to support this a policy is developed which focuses on prevention, identifying, immediate action and follow up in situations regarding bullying.

Any identification of bullying situations should be immediately reported to the year tutor, a member of the Student Team or a trusted member of staff.

General Points

Anti-Bullying units are part of the Year Tutor (YT) lessons for all classes.
The YT discusses general rules at the beginning of the school year. These include the specific rules regarding bullying and teasing; bullying should always be reported and be considered offering help rather than telling tales.
Documentation of all incidents and dealings with bullying will be kept in the student records in the Student Team and in the YT file.
The approach of the ISE in a suspected incident, involves members of staff (including teachers, YT, Student Team members, Learning Support Department, parents, bully, victim, followers and silent bystanders.
Parents who report bullying will be taken seriously. The school will work with the parents on how to best solve a situation of bullying. This includes providing advice and potential referrals to external specialists.
When repeated behaviours are observed involving the same student, the leadership team is informed and disciplinary measures are discussed. These may include internal or external suspension.

Action Plan Bullying including Peer to Peer Abuse

Every report of bullying should be taken seriously

Step 1: Every student has the right and the duty to report a bullying situation to the YT, the Student Team staff, or a trusted member of staff. During this meeting the adult will aim to clarify the situation as much as possible.

Step 2: The situation will be brought to the YT, who will bring this to the YT meeting. Strategies will be discussed and determined. These include meetings and processes with the victim, the bully, the followers, the silent bystanders and parents. The YT, members of the Student Team and/or the Learning Support Department

Step 3: Monitoring of behaviour of the students involved will continue for a substantial period. As a result, disciplinary measures may be put into place should behaviours not stop.

Roles and Responsibilities

Subject Teachers:

To monitor behaviours of all students in their class
To report issues to the YT, a member of the Student Team or Learning Support Department
When approached by a student to have the initial meeting directly or as soon as possible, in this meeting they will aim to clarify the situation and to ensure the reporter of the issue that measures will be taken and support is available.

Year Tutor:

To monitor behaviours of all students in their class(es).
To address the topic of bullying during YT lessons ; taught within YT curriculum
When the YT is approached by a student, (s)he will have the initial meeting directly or as soon as possible. In this meeting they will aim to clarify the situation and ensure the reporter of the issue that measures will be taken and support is available.
To bring bullying issues to the YT meetings. In an acute situation seek support from a member of the Student Team or the Learning Support Department
When necessary the YT will explicitly work with their group on bullying. The approach will include the role of the bully, the victim, the followers, and the silent bystanders.
To keep a log of all bullying situations, to be kept in the YT records.
Members of Student Team and/or Learning Support Department
Support the discussions and determining of strategies
Support meetings with students, groups, parents and/or other members of staff
Execute interventions (e.g. counselling) with individual students involved
Keep records of interventions and their progress in the Support Department records
Report back to the YT (meeting)

Prevention of Unwanted Sexual Advances

In accordance with its aims and objectives, the school considers its task to oppose any form of discrimination and intimidation, including unwanted sexual advances. It is desirable that there exists a learning and working atmosphere within the school such that neither students nor members of personnel will tolerate unwanted sexual advances. In order to create such an atmosphere the school has produced a code of conduct concerning the interaction between students, between members of personnel, and between students and personnel.

Evacuation Procedure

Each year the school holds several fire evacuations. Evacuation takes place on hearing the alarm signal. During year tutor lessons students are made aware of evacuation procedures. Each year several drills are held. Link to the policy.

Nut free school

The ISE is a nut free school. Within our community we have several students, and staff who suffer from nut allergies including some with extremely severe, potentially life threatening allergy. We ask that all our community pay particular attention to the food and snacks they bring to school. We ask to refrain from food products such as peanut butter, Nutella, hazelnut pastes and foods containing nuts like nut chocolate bars or candy and cookies containing nuts. We ask that parents discuss this matter with their child so they understand and can be supportive of this decision.

Privacy and Student Photographs

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