Bullying

“Tackling Bullying in Renfrewshire” is the authority’s policy on preventing and dealing with bullying in our school. The policy stresses the importance of involving the whole school community – pupils, parents and all the staff in the school.

You can view the anti-bullying policy by asking the school office for a copy of the document or by accessing the policy online at –

Anti-bullying – Renfrewshire Website

Todholm has a written policy on this issue in line with Renfrewshire Council’s policy. Which can be accessed by clicking the link below:

Todholm Respect For All Policy

“Bulling is an unacceptable form of behaviour through which an individual or groups of individuals feel threatened, abused or undermined by another individual. Bullying is behaviour which can be defined as repeated attack of a physical, psychological, social or verbal nature by those who are able to exert influence over others”.

Todholm pupils are given a strategy to help them cope in the playground which should cover most of the usual rough and tumble. The strategy is that if something occurs that a child does not like the he/she should:

• ignore
• tell the other person to stop
• walk away
• tell an adult if it persists

It is the policy of the school that children are encouraged to seek adult help and not to retaliate by hitting back. All staff are alert to complaints of this kind and to support children in resolving them. Sometimes children do not follow this strategy and this makes the matter more difficult for staff to deal with. Parents should contact the Head Teacher if they have concerns in this area.

Parents have an important role to play in ensuring that their children have an awareness of appropriate behaviour towards others and that will be acceptable in a school setting.