Design For Change at Adani Vidya

MandirTaking Bullying Head On in Schools

3rd – 14th October 2011

Our Mascot for the Project Lead by

Master Apurv Patel Miss Shreya Shremali Master Neel Patel Master Parth Vaghela Miss Priyanshi Patel

Jiminy Cricket Our Conscience Keeper

Why we chose Bullying? It’s a global problem Yet it is local in nature immediately affecting us in daily life If we can make a difference in our school in

a week, then we can do it everywhere to show the world that we have the power

to be the harbingers of change

Action Plan: Step I

We conducted an Awareness Drive on What is bullying? On 3rd Oct’11(Monday)

 We, Lead Changers  gave a power point presentation

to students of all classes

 Awareness created about what exactly is bullying, the causes & effects of the same

Step I

We incorporated a small animated video on bullying & the song ‘Never say never…’by Justin Bieber from the movie ‘Karate Kid’

We undertook a pledge to combat bullying, as a school community

We collected feedback about our awareness drive through a small questionnaire regarding the understanding of our initiative & the problem we were addressing

Getting ready for the Awareness Programmme

Our first step towards achieving the change we set for ourselves

Power Point Presentation to all the students of our school

Our Mascot ‘Jiminy Cricket’

We adopted Jiminy Cricket – the conscience keeper from the story ‘Pinocchio’

Our teachers told the story of Pinocchio to all our young friends & the role Jiminy Cricket played

We agreed upon to listen to the small voice inside us that tells us right from wrong

We decided to wear badges of the same to remind ourselves that we need to carry our conscience always

Our Principal Maam releasing our Mascot ‘Jiminy Cricket’ for our initiative and inaugurating Design For

Change Contest 2011 at A.V.M.

Pledge to combat bullying as a school community

Step II Are we one among them? (Case Studies) between 4th

Oct’11 – 14 Oct’11 (Mon – Fri)

We had Role Play in morning assemblies wherein Jiminy Cricket would introduce the case & give solution at the end of the play as to how to avoid or handle such situation

Clarity achieved about what is bullying, who is a bully, who are the victims, who are passive observers

An assembly skit which conveys Gandhiji’s message of ‘Speak No Evil, See No Evil, Hear No Evil’

Jiminy Cricket giving advise to one such incident

Skit showing incident of snatching of food during the assembly

Skit showing incident of name calling

Skit showing the incident of physical fight in the playground

Step III We decided to reach to the root of the Problems of

bullying incidents    Students of Classes VII A & B on 3rd Oct’11 – 7th Oct’11

(Mon – Fri) did this activity   Mind Mapping was done to understand the causes

leading to incidents of bullying

 Helped students to analyse why bullying takes place

Our friends reaching to the roots of the problem of bullying through mind mapping

Another group trying to reach to the root of another bullying incident

Discussion on a particular case study

Team of students who did Mind Mapping for reaching to the root cause of bullying incidents and their posters

Mind Maps that our friends worked on are on display for others to see and understand

A case study presented in the library

Getting to the bottom of the problem: another case study on making others fall

Step IV

Class VIII students designed posters on ‘Do’s & Don’ts with Bullies’

  Conducted on 10th & 11th Oct’11 (Mon & Tue)

 Their focus was to Understand & educate others about how to deal with bullies & how to avoid such incidents

Dos and Don’ts posters to combat bullying incidents

Our group of friends who joined hands in exploring ways and means to tackle bullying through posters as visual awareness

Step V   Class IX students Made Quotes in order to

Focus, Fight, Feel the change  Conducted on 10th & 11th Oct’11 (Mon &

Tue)  Students give their peace of mind in the

form of a self composed quote, advise  Indulged in Thinking deeply how to bring

about a change using words & icons

Step VI Class X had ‘Recognise & Reform’ session

to frame FAQs to handle bullying Conducted on 10th & 11th Oct’11 (Mon &

Tue) Brain storming session on recognising the

bullying incidents & how to tackle them Framed Frequently asked Questions with

the help of our counsellor & mentor

Our School Counsellor guides us to frame student friendly FAQs to handle bullying incidents

Taking questions from the students and designing solutions to the same

Our friends participate in the brainstorming session of preparing FAQs

Step VII  After a series of activities & discussions we had

figured out a way to tackle bullying head on in schools

 We had a Focus Group Discussion on 12th Oct’11 (Wednesday)

 We worked on Anti-Bullying Policy & Code of conduct for all areas in school

We formed help groups & help boxes for the students to reach us in case of bullying

We in a Focus Group Discussion with our counsellor and mentor

We stressing on having an anti-bullying policy

Anti Bullying Policy & Code of Conduct for various areas in the school

Did we feel the change? We tried evaluating & measuring the change

through feedback forms, one to one with student representatives, class teachers, discussion, etc

But the evaluation table that we designed helped us to put the statistics practically

Our efforts had some impact in a week’s time but we have promised ourselves to carry it forever

1st week of DFC contest (3rd to 7th October 2011)

2nd week of DFC contest (10th to 14th October 2011)

Analysis of our study Around 31 incidents of bullying had

occurred when we started this initiative (observed during 3rd – 7th Oct’11)

As we reached the end of our initiative we had just 14 incidents of bullying which is nearly 50% reduction of the cases (observed during 10th – 14th Oct’11)

From all of us at A.V.M.!

Thank You DFC!

We have realized the power of ‘I Can’

WE HAVE JUST BEGUN THE JOURNEY & WE HAVE A LONG

WAY TO GO!

Yet all we are saying now is …