Student  Wellbeing 

Mental Health in Schools

Bully Zero 

What a fabulous week celebrating Bully Zero Day. Students made masks, wore a splash of orange and learnt about the importance of being an upstander and saying NO to bullying. 

Some reminders:

Bullying happens when a person or a group of people repeatedly and intentionally use words or actions to cause distress and harm to another person's safety and wellbeing. 

Bullying is not:

• Mutual conflict which involves a disagreement, but not an imbalance of power. Unresolved mutual conflict can develop into bullying if one of the parties targets the other repeatedly in retaliation.
• Social rejection or dislike is not bullying unless it involves deliberate and repeated attempts to cause distress, exclude or create dislike by others.
• Single-episode acts of nastiness or physical aggression, or aggression directed towards many different people, is not bullying.

An Upstander is someone who takes action against bullying behaviour. When an Upstander sees someone being bullied, they do something about it. They help to stop the bullying from happening, or they support the person who’s being bullied. 

A bystander is watching bullying happening to someone else and not doing anything about it.

Keeping children safe online is as important as keeping them safe offline. The best approach to keeping children safe online and protecting them, is to teach them how to protect themselves by putting in place rules and expectations, modeling respectful online social skills and teaching netiquette(respectful online behaviours and responsibilities).

At SOGS, we support our students and families to stay safe online in the following ways:

• Parent and student information sessions and contracts for Chromebooks, Smart watches and phones
• Cybersafety lessons to support and encourage respectful digital citizenship
• Constant monitoring of Chromebooks through the use of HAPARA. 
• Model to our children how to be responsible digital citizens
• Enforce our User Agreement that is signed at the Chromebook Rollout night.

This link provides a wealth of information to explore, on how parents and carers can help their children stay safe online : Parents | eSafety Commissioner

The following infographics provide snapshots of guidelines and strategies to consider.

Age Ratings for Apps