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Anti Bullying Week
Our Respect for All policy outlines our definition of bullying:
Bullying is both behaviour and impact; the impact is on a person’s capacity to feel in control of themselves. This is what we term as their sense of ‘agency’. Bullying takes place in the context of relationships. It is behaviour that can make people feel hurt, threatened, frightened, left out and lack self-confidence. This behaviour happens face to face and online.
Bullying behaviour can harm people physically or emotionally and, although the actual behaviour may not be repeated, the threat may be sustained over time, typically by actions, looks, messages, confrontations, physical interventions or the fear of these. Bullying behaviour can happen as a one-off incident or can be persistent. Each incident requires investigation to establish whether the
behaviour has been bullying, the impact the behaviour has had and what support is required for all children involved.
In line with ‘Respect for All’ and Renfrewshire Council’s Anti-bullying Policy, West Johnstone Campus recognise that not all disagreements between children and young people are necessarily bullying in nature and the need to consider both the behaviour and impact when investigating and resolving allegations of
bullying behaviour.
Renfrewshire Council and West Johnstone Campus also recognise that labelling children and young people as ‘bullies’ or ‘victims’ can be disempowering and does not help to change behaviour or support recovery from being bullied.
Renfrewshire Council expects adults managing bullying to be able to distinguish between a person and their behaviour. It is also an expectation that all people, including those who are bullying, should always be treated with respect. Not labelling children helps to maintain the adult’s focus and response on the problematic behaviour.
Bullying behaviour can include:
- Being called names, teased, put down or threatened face to face/online
- Being hit, tripped, pushed or kicked
- Having belongings taken or damaged
- Being ignored, left out or having rumours spread about you (face-to-face and/or online)
- Sending abusive messages, pictures or images on social media, online gaming platforms, mobile phone or other devices
- Behaviour which makes people feel like they are not in control of
themselves or their lives or that they have lost their personal power or ‘sense of agency’ (face-to-face and/or online) - Being targeted because of who you are or who you are perceived to be(face to face and/or online)
Bullying behaviour may be a result of prejudice that relates to perceived or actual differences. This can lead to behaviour and language that could manifest into racism, sexism, homophobia, biphobia or transphobia or prejudice and discrimination towards disability or faith. Prejudice-based bullying is when bullying behaviour is motivated by prejudice based on an individual’s actual or perceived identity; it can be based on characteristics unique to a member of our school community’s identity or circumstance. For example, prejudice arising from socio-economic background, their ability to learn, mental health or a pupil’s appearance.
Online bullying, or ‘cyberbullying’ as it is often referred to on social networking sites and online gaming platforms, will not be treated any differently from face to-face bullying. A person can be called names, threatened or have rumours spread about them and this can (like other behaviours) happen in person and online.
P4/5 Book Week Scotland
Today, Primary 4/5 were learning about all different types of books: Fiction, non-fiction and Comics.
We started this morning by having a ‘blether’ with our groups at our blether stations.
We were discussing our different opinions and discussing what we like and don’t like about some fiction stories.
Have a listen to one of our groups during their discussions, they become very involved.
After break, we moved on to looking at examples of comics strips and discussing how they were very short stories told in pictures, but with added detail in the speech from characters.
We looked at examples from Wallace and Gromit and Peanuts.
As a class, we decided to create our own. See some of our examples below.
This afternoon, we merged our weather topic and our reading day to talk about non-fiction books. Mr Kerr showed the class a non-fiction book about the water cycle and how its rains, just like it had been all day today. We learned about all the meteorological terms for the different stages.
Mr Kerr then along with the class created an experiment showing how water evaporates and condenses of a cold surface. You can see our experiment below.
Can you see the condensation that formed? It became heavy on the cold plastic lid and formed a rain drop.
We reinforced our learning here by labelling all the different features of the Water Cycle.
By the end of the day, the entire class agreed… books are amazing in so many ways!
Primary 1 Book Week Scotland Part 3!
Hello again everyone,
We have had such a busy day full of lots of fun activities.
This afternoon we discussed all three books now that we have had some time to read them together. In St. David’s we talk about our 3 sharings – likes/dislikes, puzzles and connections.
Here are some of our 3 sharings. We hope it inspires you to read our new books at home 🙂
Likes/Dislikes – “I liked this book because it was so funny!” Aleeah
Puzzles – “I am confused about the sheep not realising that Brenda is a wolf!” Finn
Connections – “I have a jumper like that in my house.” Bella
Likes/Dislikes – “I didn’t like that the dog scribbled on the book.” Laila
Puzzles – “How does the dog know how to use the crayon?” Kyle
Connections – “My dog Poppy lies down the same was as the dog in the story.” Kaiden
Likes/Dislikes – “I really like the pictures.” Carter
Puzzles – “I didn’t know the right name for some of the birds but now I do.” Calvin
Connections – “I can see some of those birds at my house.” Michael
We hope you have enjoyed joining us for Book Week Scotland today.
Speak to you again soon,
Primary 1 🙂
Anti Bullying Week
You can find our Respect for All policy here. This was written in line with Renfrewshire Council’s Anti Bullying Policy, which you can view here.
We created the policy as a Joint Campus as our school communities work so closely together and we believe that everyone who works here, learns here and visits here, deserves to be treated with respect.
All our staff, pupils and parents were consulted in creating this policy and we have captured their views throughout. We continue to implement our policy in our daily actions and will review it as part of our school improvement cycle.
Our Together logo was launched last Christmas when we merged the winning pupil designs – we think it really represents our school campus vision:
Every day, we work and play, learning ways to get along.
Finding out, what life’s about, everybody moving on.
Primary 1 Book Week Scotland Part 2!
Welcome back!
After playtime today we had a very special gifting session in class. Each November Bookbug gives every Primary 1 pupil in Scotland a free bag of books and resources to inspire a lifelong love of reading, writing and counting. The Bookbug Primary 1 Family Bag contains the three shortlisted titles for The Bookbug Picture Book Prize.
The bag also contains lots of great resources including an activity booklet, a whiteboard and pen, Bookbug colouring pencils and a numeracy game.
Our class have voted for our favourite book already – This is a dog.
We hope you have lots of fun with this at home!
Check in later for our final post of the day 🙂
Primary 1.
@AttainRen
#BookWeekScotland
Primary 1 Book Week Scotland Part 1!
Good morning everyone,
Today it’s Primary 1’s turn to show you a little of what we are up to for Book week Scotland. We start each day with some paired reading. We got some new books for our library so it was very exciting deciding what one to choose.
Our first read was “Brenda is a sheep”. We loved this story but Brenda is definitely NOT a sheep!
Brenda asked us to follow up with some tasks which were very fun. We had to create a new grass food menu with lots of tasty teats for the sheep. Some delicious ideas included grass crisps, grass pizza and grass ice-cream – what a feast! Brenda found it tricky to go to sleep at the right time so we drew the time we go to bed and the time we get up on analogue clocks for her to give her some helpful tips 🙂
Then we listened to a short clip from Morag Hood who is the author of Brenda the Sheep. She asked if we could design some woolly jumpers to help all the sheep in the winter months. I’m sure you will agree we have some great designs!
Check back later for some more updates of what we are getting up to today for Book Week Scotland 2020.
See you soon,
Primary 1 🙂
@AttainRen
#BookWeekScotland
Book Week Scotland – P6/7 Focus
Today as part of Book Week Scotland Primary 6/7 had the chance to try a book tasting menu where everyone got to choose three books they haven’t read before and have a ‘taster’ of them. Lots of people found great books that they can’t wait to read next.
We’re looking forward to hearing more about their Book Week Scotland activities this week.
Weekly Update 16/11/20
We have been listening to your feedback about our monthly newsletter and have been looking for a more information friendly way to share what is happening in our school. Until the Christmas break, we are going to trial this weekly format to share key pieces of information with you. If you click on the image, you can view it in a larger size.
We would love you to bear with us for a few weeks and then give us some feedback on what you think and how we can best share information with you moving forward.
Anti Bullying Week 2020
This week we celebrate Anti Bullying Week in our school and across the nation. We are also marking one year since we launched our Joint Campus ‘Respect for All’ Policy which sets out strategies and guidance to promote equality and respect for all in our school community.
This week, we will share some daily reminders with you about our Respect for All policy. If you would like to read more about it, you can click here. As always, please get in touch if you would like to discuss this further.
