Mental Health and Wellbeing:

 Supporting Inclusion and Respectful Curiosity at School 

 Term 3

Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships program (RRRR)

During the next two weeks-

Foundation: Everyone can be strong and gentle and celebrating our unique diversity

Things you can do at home: Invite students to ask you about some of the different jobs/ roles you have held and whether they can be completed by people of any gender

Year 1 and 2: What is fair play and ways to be fair?

Things you can do at home: Invite students to reflect of games that appear to be male or female dominated and discuss how everyone can play by learning the skills and rules of the game

Year 3 and 4: Challenging Gender pressures in stories and the media

Things to do at home: How does advertisers try to sell their products to children.

Year 5 and 6: Talking about gender using inclusive language

Things to do at home: Invite students to ask you about different pressures that men and women experience in the home and in the workplace. 

During Term 3 our Stand Up Project Leaders will be delivering lessons to the students in Year 4, Year 3 and 2 Ramsden. Next term a new cohort of students will hear their message.

To coincide with the Bullying No Way incentive, our Stand Up Project leaders will be presenting their next lesson during Week 7. See the outline below.

At St John's:

Reducing bullying is important because:

The focus of the lesson is about the difference between being a bystander and an upstander.

A bystander is someone who is present at an event but does not take part. The bystander effect occurs when a person, or group of people see that someone needs help, but don't assist. Research on the bystander effect was explored in the 1960s by John Darley and Bibb Latane. Their research is called The Smokey Room Experiment. The research suggests that when in a larger group, people will often wait for someone else to act. The larger the group watching, the less likely that help will be offered. 

An upstander is a person who speaks or acts in support of an individual or a cause and intervenes on behalf of that person.

Being an upstander can sometimes be challenging, as students may fear judgment or criticism when they speak up against inappropriate behaviour. However, the benefits far outweigh the negatives, because upstanders help create safer, more inclusive environments for their peers and support those who may not have a voice and inspire others to do the right thing.

Our leaders will also be talking to their peers about the 4Ds. These are strategies to use when they see another student being treated unfairly in the classroom, in the playground or outside school hours.  See the poster below. 

Working together, we can make our school and the community a safer place for everyone. 

If you have further questions on the Stand Up Project or would like additional resources, please do not hesitate to reach out. 

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