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Comenius Partnership 2010 - 2012

"BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE KIND"

Project Against Bullying,

BE-OK

June 2012


Comenius Partnership

1. COLEGIUL NATIONAL “MIHAI VITEAZUL” / Bucharest, RO

http://cnmv.ro/comenius/

2. FUNDAÇÃO DE ENSINO PROFISSIONAL DA PRAIA DA VITORIA/

Azore, PT

http://www.feppv.pt/index_escola.htm

3. SREDNO OBSHTOOBRAZOVATELNO UCHILISHTE “BACHO KIRO”/

Pavlikeni, BG

http://www.soupavlikeni.com

4. LICEO SCIENTIFICO STATALE "GUGLIELMO MARCONI“/ Pesaro, IT

http://www.liceomarconi.it/

5. ZESPOL SZKOL/ Filipow, PL

http://zsfilipow.pl/

6. COMPLEXUL EDUCAȚIONAL LAUDER REUT/ RO

http://www.lauder-reut.eu/


http://www.feppv.pt/index_escola.htm

http://www.soupavlikeni.com/

http://www.liceomarconi.it/


http://www.lauder-reut.eu/


This booklet has been produced

within the

Transnational Comenius project

and is addressed to professionals

which are concerned

with bullying issues.


SCHOOL VIOLENCE – INTRODUCTION

School violence is a community issue. Research shows that communities with higher rates of

violence (domestic violence, assaults, etc.) report higher frequencies of "school violence". If

we accept the premise that schools are a reflection of their communities then we must realize

that schools alone can not resolve the bullying issue. We need to promote the idea that there

are multiple stakeholders involved in this issue and we are all in this together.

Bullying among primary school age children has become recognized as an antecedent to more

violent behavior in later grades. Statistics on violence in our country tell a grim story with a

clear message. Action is needed to end purposeful harassment, and bullying. The studies that

have been done on the issue of bullying in our partnership will contribute to a growing body

of knowledge that underscores the seriousness of the problem of bullying in schools.

The following is a list of facts based on the current research about bullying:

• 80% of adolescents reported being bullied during their school years

• 90% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims

• 15% of students bully regularly or are victims of bullies

• Up to 7% of 8th grade students stay home at least once a month because of bullies

Violence against children and young people occurs at high rates in schools around the world.

(Williams, 2007) In a large multi-national study from 37 nations, an average of 28% of

students report being the victim of some form of violence in the last month (range by country

5-75%) and an average of 48% of students reported that a friend was a victim of school

violence in the last month (range 15%-80%).(Akiba, 2002)


ABOUT PROJECT by IOANA SANDRU from Bucharest, Romania

Motto:

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s

definition of your life, but define yourself.” ~ Harvey S. Firestone

All partners involved in this project analyzed in depth critical issues relevant to bullying

phenomena at all levels of education, with concrete conclusions and recommendations,

selecting cases of good practice showed European experiences that could be disseminated

and transferred to other countries, specially in training with teachers.


The aim is to promote AntiBullying campaign and social cohesion and deal with or overcome

situations of social exclusion, marginalization or isolation.

PARTNERS exchanged of information: learning about bullying, about counselling and conflict

solving in schools:

STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF

THE PROJECT

1ST year2010 – 2011

WHAT WE DID:

• Reading of literature concerning Bullying

• Project Leaflet

• Logo of the project

• Competition: the best poster

• Workshop: levels of bullying, forms and

frequency in schools

• Questionnaires for students and teachers,

plan for identification of level of bullying

• WEB PAGE

• Workshops in schools: Conflict Solving,

Nonviolent strategies ..

• dissemination materials: articles, local

meetings ..

• Newsletter 1

2ND year2011 - 2012

WHAT WE HAVE TO DO:

• Newsletter 2

• WEB PAGE

• Exchange of material and experiences: Anti

bullying policy

• dissemination materials: articles, local meetings,

round tables

• Campaign Bullying Prevention. Workshops-

strategies to cope with bullying, strategies to

reduce bullying in schools

• new learning method for students, teachers,

parents in their existing courses

• Extract the common experiences and the similar

conclusions about the common understanding of

Bullying

• Brochure/CD/DVD

• final report


Objectives of the project:

• To promote between teachers, managers and students the discussion on the “bullying issue”

in the schools.

• To provide psychological, pedagogic and sociological competencies, to fight the bullying

phenomenon.

• To encourage and to promote a comparison to an international level that could define the

problematic dimension of the phenomenon as well as its range.

• To encourage the creation of a group of study and intervention (peer counselling) to

research solutions and strategies of intervention.

• To create an Anti-bullying Campaign in the context to stop violence.

• To promote the acquisition of knowledge’s for students to intervene respecting people's

safety in defense of the victims but also against a macro-phenomenon of large dimension.

All the organization involved in this project worked to develop an effective bullying prevention

program, to create an environment that encourages courteous and respectful treatment of

one another.


During the meetings the partner schools presented the results of the work they have done so

far in their institutions.

The students shared the results of the research done in their school about the problem of

bullying. Teachers gave a short presentation of the activities and workshops done in their

schools

Our study examined the relationship between student perceptions of bullying across multiple

schools in a common questionnaire. (made by teachers from NATIONAL COLLEGE MIHAI

VITEAZUL)


Children Questionnaire

This questionnaire is designed to help us find out how bullying

is going on in the school and when and where it is happening.

Accurate information will help us to know how best to stop

bullying happening. This will help us to start working on

solutions. This questionnaire is completely anonymous! So

please be honest as you can with your answers. It is absolutely

confidential – don’t write your name on this paper.

1. How old are you? ...............................

2. I am a

- Boy

- Girl

3. Do you feel good in your classroom?

5 4 3 2 1

4. Have you a good friend in your class?

– Yes

– No

5. Have you ever seen someone being hurt in your class?

– Yes

– No

6. A) Have you ever been .. .. in your class?

– Kicked

– Threatened

– Hit

– Teased

– Pushed

– Excluded by someone

B) Have you ever been sent nasty text/ messages or e-mails?

– Yes

– No

C) Have you been asked to give up money or belongings?

– Yes

– No

6. If this has happened, how often does it occur?

– Almost every day

– Almost every week

– Almost every month

– Not often

7. Where does it occur?

– In your classroom

– In the corridors

– In the canteen

– In the playground

– On the way to or from school

– Others

8. Did you speak to someone about this and if yes to

whom?

– A teacher

– Another adult

– A friend

– An older boy or girl

– A parent or caretaker

– My brother / sister

– Someone else ..............................

– I don t speak

9. If you spoke to someone, did you receive help?

– Yes

– No

10. What do you think about bullying?

...............................................................................

..............................................................................

Thank you for your answers, hopefully this will help make our

schools a better, safer and happier learning environment.

Overall, the results found that students and teachers perceive bullying to occur with moderate

to high frequency. (in EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX LAUDER REUT)

Q2. What kind of bullying action have been in your school?

24

8

2 2

10

1

verbal psihycal sexual cyber-bullying Psihological Another

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Victims reported to…

7%

33% 37%

7% 11% 15%

Ministry of Education

principal collegues security forces

caiet de reclamatii

another

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

The need for teachers and other adults is to be more involved in the active supervision and

intervention to prevent violence.


What we did?

ResourcesInternet (Youtube, www.strongfamilies.us)

Brochures

ActivitiesComputer science

Sports

QuestionnaireChildren

Teachers

View and comment spots on youtube.com

Preventing playing aggressive games in free time

Projects Brochures

Web-sites

Slideshows in PowerPoint

Posters

CompetitionsPlaying computer games -http://www.strongfamilies.us/ComputerGameTrialSWF/ABTrial.html

The products of the project are huge benefits to increasing stretcher awareness and

involvement in bullying prevention practices.

Reactions:“I think it’s not fair of you to show us this movies. You make us feel guilty!”

“SUICIDE? Can bullying go to this?”

“Bullies are so weak and envious!”

Brochures

Bullying: What’s in their mind?

This ebook aim is to help schools to plan whole-school approaches that will reduce violence

and, in doing so, achieve the consistency that is essential if pupils are to develop the social,

emotional and behavioural skills that they need to become citizens who know how to resolve

conflict in a non-violent way. (Photos with students from/ p Lauder Reut High School)

Teacher, may I

play again

THE GAME?

Bearing in mind that all children must be able to learn free from violence, that schools should

be safe and child friendly and curricula should be rights based, and also that schools provide


an environment in which attitudes that condone violence can be changed and non-violent

values and behavior learned, we recommend:

1. encourage schools to adopt and implement codes of conduct applicable to all staff and

students that confront all forms of violence, taking into account gender based

stereotypes and behaviour and other forms of discrimination;

2. ensure that school principals and teachers use non-violent teaching and learning

strategies and adopt classroom management and disciplinary measures that are not

based on fear, threats, humiliation or physical force;

3. prevent and reduce violence in schools through specific programmes which address

the whole school environment including through encouraging the building of lying

policies and promoting respect for all members of the school community;

4. ensure that curricula, teaching processes and other practices are in full conformity

with the provisions and principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, free

from references actively or passively promoting violence and discrimination in any of

its manifestations.


Schools may find the activity materials useful. Within the context, these could be used in

various combinations as stimulus materials for staff discussions creating elements of designing

and implementing an improvement plan to stop violence.

The project key of to success:

- close cooperation between all partners

- distribution of tasks and work

- taking over responsibility

- getting homework done in time

- frequent communication

- integrating students and colleagues

- documenting of the different steps of the project

- defining and keeping clear goals


A School Programme for Prevention Aggression and Bullying

in “Bacho Kiro“ Secondary School

Pavlikeni_Bulgaria

By Nedelcho Nedelchev

This School Programme for Prevention Aggression and Bullying is worked out on the

base of Development Programme of Education, Science and Youth Policy in Bulgaria (2009-

2013). It corresponds directly with Measure 6 in the quoted document:”Strengthening the

educational work with children and students in order to complete personal development and

the related Action 6.5:”Building a system for prevention violence and aggression among

children and students”. The guiding principles set out in it are in an accordance with the

priority of Ministry of Education, Youth and Science ”Ensuring equal access to education and

open educational system”, Measure 4:”Creating sustainable mechanisms and instruments to

ensure the safety and health of children and students” and a specific activity 4.2: “Creating a

supportive environment for children and students susceptible to violence and aggression”.

Various strategic documents on European level are also a main priority in the European Union

to create more opportunities for young people in education and promoting their active

citizenship on important social issues.

The first year of the realization of the project “Brave Enough to be Kind”, supported

financially by Lifelong Learning Programme and sub-programme “Comenius - School

Partnership” were devoted to promote the concepts and facts, connected with bullying at

school. Some best national and international practices were examined, a lot of workshops

with students and teachers were realized.

At the very beginning of the project’s realization we organized a Round-table talk,

devoted to the aggression among children and students in the regional town V.Tarnovo,

where we presented the project “Brave Enough to be Kind” to a lot of schools. The event was

on 25.10.2010 and the district Governor, vice-district Governor Mrs I. Chorbadjieva, school

principals, experts of education and prevention took part in.


Our teachers and students made two posters “Aggression, violence, bullying”, that

were put on the central place in the two school buildings. These posters showed the main

concepts about the project, pictures and information for the financial programme.

There was a competition for making a poster and a logo, dedicated on the project, as in

the final selection, made by the Art teacher, were chosen 12 posters and logos. They were

presented to the school community on 24.03.2011. and to the partners on 04.04.2011.in Praja

da Vitoria in Portugal. The poster, created by Radoslav Georgiev - 8th a grade, was chosen for

the project poster and it has already used in the all project materials. There was a

questionnaire to define the range of students aggressive behaviour and to clarify the most

common bullying cases.

A session with the pedagogical staff “Measures for prevention the aggressive

behaviour” and a discussion about some practical strategies for reducing the aggression and

bullying were organized.

We started a lot of activities with students: we organized a psychological training with

students from 1st and 2nd grade: ”Me and the others. Relationships and behaviour”. We

formed a students informal group “1st June”, its aim was to plan a school strategy agains

bullying. In the 5th grade we realized a psychological training “Let’s be kind!” on 06.06.2011

and 29 students took place there.

On 24.03.2011.we realized a special workshop devoted on the project. There were

presented the posters and the logos, connected with bullying, 23 students from 9th to 12th

grade presented their multimedia presentations and own essays on the project topic. A

session “Aggression, violence and bullying in the Bulgarian school” was organized on

18.05.2011.and the participants were 27 students and 8 teachers.

During the first year the first Action “Smile” was realized, later it became traditional for

our school. It started on 26.05.2011 and then only 8 students took place, but now in similar

actions 80 students have already included! The “Smile” action was dedicated on the positive

thinking and a lot of flyers and “smiles” were distributed.


We made a great survey about the problem with bullying among students - 226

students from 4th to 12th grade were included. Another survey about bullying - “Do you solve

your problems using violence?” was realized with the help of our school site.55 students gave

their answers anonymously. The surveys results are used to plan a school policy on the matter

of bullying. A questionnaire on “the exit” in 7th grade to determine cases of bullying made by

teachers was implemented on 16.06.2011.28 students answered anonymously and the results

showed that in our school there are not cases of bullying.

On the school site we uploaded a questionnaire on the topic above.60 people have

taken part in it till now. We have got the following results:

Questionnaire : “ Do you solve your problems in school, if you use violence?”

Number of people voted : 60

First voting : Wednesday, 02 February 2011 13:42

Last voting : Saturday, 30 April 2011 11:21

Never – 73 %

Sometimes – 24 %

Always – 3 %

Often – 0%

Among the most important activities for promoting this project were the presentation

about the project made by two students from 5th grade on the school IT Olympiad level and

their participation in a regional pedagogical conference “School - student’s desired territory”.3

students presented a project against bullying on a school and a regional level of the Olympiad

in civic education. Their work took third place in V. Tarnovo region.

There was arranged a project corner with a lot of materials-brochures, magazines,

pictures, given us by the partners schools. We put two posters with useful information about

the project activities and the expected results and a variety of photos, as well. We

collaborated the exhibition corner for Johan Amos Comenius in the school library with all the

books gifted us during our international mobilities.

The students and the teachers together elaborated and distributed an info brochure in

order to promote the Be OK project and its essential concepts.


Posters

Two big posters with information about

violence, bullying and aggression were put in

two of the school buildings. They were made

by students from 9 th grade together with

students from the club “ 1 st of June”. This

club was set up on the project “ Fight against

bullying”.

Popularization

We use different ways and means to make

students familiar with the topic of the project

and the project itself:

- the school site www.soupavlikeni.com;

- some publications in the local site

www.pavlikeni.info;

- a display;

- information boards;

- information boards at the entrance of the

school;

-A teacher conference – “ The school – a

desirable area for the students”;

- Civil Education Olympiad.

An important success for one school programme is guaranteed by an integrated

approach to the problem and a support by the school manager staff, on the one hand, and

from the financial presence, on the other hand. This is the reason exactly this school year in

“Bacho Kiro” Secondary School - Pavlikeni to be taken a lot of practical steps to reduce the

negative events by introducing the School Programme for Prevention the Aggression The

programme is a serious attempt to solve this important for the community problem in which

is included all the school staff-students, teachers and parents, due to it there are reducing of

aggression and bullying at school.

The target group was determined - students from “Bacho Kiro” Secondary School and

the concrete programme field – the relationships in and out school that make influence on

students activities.

The first stage of introducing the School Programme included measures for prevention

in some strategic school documents. In the School Annual Plan is included a text which says

that “Bacho Kiro” Secondary School with its qualified teachers strives to form skills for “…

prevention the aggression and violence” among students. In the Class Teachers Plans were

included the following topics:

- in 1st – 8th grade – „The children in the net” and „How to oppose to aggressive

acts”;

- in 9th – 12th grade – „Positive and negative forms in the social behaviour” and

„Аggression around us”.


In the Annual Plan of the school advisor (2011 – 2012) were written these strategic

aims: “Reducing the aggression at school” and “Improving the relationships in the school

community”, followed by activities and tasks.

In the School Committee for Prevention the Antisocial Behaviour of Underage Students

is fixed as a constant priority to examine the reasons for antisocial acts and measures for

discipline. On a special meeting this Committee discussed the students discipline, analyzed

measures and expected results (December 2010). In March there was a second meeting

where the similar topics were discussed with teachers, parents and students.

A brochure

Students from 11 th grade made a brochure. It

presents information about the way they

understand the conception of the words

bullying, violence and aggression.

A site about fight against bullying

A student from 9 th grade has proposed to work out a site in Bulgarian language

in order to make popular our ideas about fighting against bullying and aggression

in schools.

The site will be found on the following address:

http://bulling-bg.alle.bg/

To promote the project’s activities and to encourage the students participation was

created a special site - http://bulling.soupavlikeni.com/, which gives information about

planned activities and the accomplished results. The “Be OK” team started a campaign to form

a students consulting team, who has to be trained by the two psychologists to give advice in

the forum in our site. These students, who want to consult the teenagers, applied and

motivated their including by e-mail.

For the first time was trained the school staff (the administrative one, cleaners, bus

drivers).The training includes basic knowledge for causes of aggression, some ethical

principles how to deal with a situation in which someone behaves aggressively, and some

practical steps how to give psychological support.

We carried out a workshop with teachers who help students in the afternoons and

organize their free time. The topic was: ”Management of anger and control over students’

aggressive behaviour”. The purpose of the workshop was to present some practical effects for

reducing the emotional consequences when there are conflicts between students. There were

http://bulling.soupavlikeni.com/


discussions: “Identification and approaches in work with students in risk” and “Starting a

programme for disciplining students in “Bacho Kiro” Secondary School”. The aim of all of these

activities was to initiate some ideas that to be suggested to the managing staff as practical

steps for disciplining the students and reducing the cases of bullying and aggression at school.

Workshops

In the School Plan for Qualification of the Pedagogical Staff were set sessions with the

class teachers “How to deal with aggression?” and “How to improve the contacts with the

students’ parents in order to achieve an equal connection between the family and school

upbringing”. The aim is to improve the pedagogical competencies for work with parents, in

cases of tension, bullying or aggressive behaviour in class.

We organized a session with all the pedagogical staff: ”Aggressive behaviour - causes

and measures for prevention” in November 2011 where reports with best practices were

presented by Heads of departments.

With special attention and after a previous research were selected activities with

students in the School Programme for Prevention the Aggression and Bullying. The students

are the target group and their active position is a guarantee for its success in the end.


We started with elaborating Rules for Good Relationships in Class. The class teachers

and students took part in these activities. The Rules were accepted with a consent, were

signed by students and were put on the wall in the classroom. Our school advisors carried out

group psychological trainings against aggression “Let’s be kind!”. The pupils took place there,

they formed small groups and tried to define the concepts violence, aggression and bullying,

worked as a team and made posters and rules against aggression.

To realize the School Programme for Prevention the Aggression and Bullying were

planned two school initiatives: “At school with a smile!” and Day “No violence at school!”. The

first one was organized and dedicated on the International Day of the Smile, when students –

volunteers made and gave out hand-made “smiles” and positive messages to their teachers

and classmates. This initiative has a great success, as authors and “messengers” took part

about 60 students. The common opinion is this initiative to be repeated every year. Before the

Day “No violence at school!” there was a competition for students “My contribution against

aggression at school”. The students wrote essays, drew pictures, made presentations.Оn the


Day itself was organized an exhibition with students work, a presentation with videos, was

conducted a discussion with teachers, parents and students.

There will be sessions, conducted by the School Students Council, in order to improve

communicative skills and the climate among the students and Workshop: ”Forming skills to

deal with different kinds of violence”, as well. Some of the school initiatives are dedicated on

the Europe’s Day - a “Smile” action will be organized. The students and the teachers will be

given “smiles”, a competition for the most smiling class will take place, too.

It is planned to be organized at least two parents meetings in the school and these topics have

to be discussed there: ”For prize and punishment”; “Real and virtual violence”; ”Аggression

among children”.

A special System for managing conflicts in our school was built by a committee,

supervised by the two school advisors. A system for an individual parents consulting was

elaborated if there are conflicts at school caused by the relationships with teachers and the

managing staff.

Regularly there were organized consultations with the School Board of Trustees “We

are together for children” to carry out initiatives for reducing bullying at school.

On 02.05.2012.a Round-talk table “Best Practices for Prevention Aggression and

Bullying among students” was organized in V.Tarnovo by “Bacho Kiro” Secondary School in

Pavlikeni and Regional Inspectorate of Education – V.Tarnovo in the framework of the project

“Brave Enough to be Kind”. The Round-talk table was officially opened by the head of RIE Mrs

R. Licheva and the principal of our school Mrs R. Staneva. Representatives from 18 schools,

еmployees from the Ministry of Interior, from the Municipality of Pavlikeni, and from


Department “Child Protection” took part in this initiative. There were presented six reports

about realized best practices against aggression and bullying in schools in V. Tarnovo, G.

Oryahovitsa, Elena and Pavlikeni.

The team of the project “Brave Enough to Be Kind” strongly believes that the

suggested activities in our School Programme are a great investment in the prevention of

bullying and in the future of the young people, as well.We do believe these activities are

steps for solving the European and world challenges like the increasing aggression among

young people.


ITALIAN PARTNER

Liceo Scientifico Statale

"GUGLIELMO MARCONI"

Last October, as part of the “Programma Europeo Comenius”, was held in our school the fourth

meeting called “Brave Enough To Be Kind (Be – Ok)”, concerning the issues on and around

Bullism phenomenon. From the 19th

to the 23rd

of that month we hosted delegations made by

teachers and students from the following European cities: the city of Bucharest (Romania), the

city of Filipow (Poland), the city of Pavlikeni (Bulgaria) and from the isle of Terceira in the

Azores (Portugal).

The First meeting was held in Bucharest during October 2010, the second meeting was held in

the Azores islands in the month of April 2011, and the third was in Poland shortly afterwards,

in June 2011. The last of these gatherings will be held, once again, in Bulgaria this coming

June 2012.

The classes of our School that have actively taken part to this project are the actual III L and IV

C. But at this point you may ask yourselves what is really Project Comenius… and here’s the

answer:

The above mentioned project is, what is technically called a multilateral program (that is, a

project which involves many countries) generally of a two-yearly duration and wholly financed

by the European Union and finalised to the mobility of teachers and students. One of the main

goals of these types of activities is the cultural interchange. Any Comenius has a different issue

of common interest, where the delegations and the supporting countries are working together.

The way that Comenius work is usually by multiple means; there could be the production of

multimedia materials like short-movies, websites and blogs, newsletters, etc,. But obviously

there is plenty of more traditional works like posters, flyers, etc,.

The language which was chosen was clearly English, therefore all the above mentioned

materials and activities are to be carried out in English. Henceforth a solid knowledge of this

language is not “preferable” but “Indispensable”….The opening of the Fourth meeting was

preceded by a guided tour to our School and a little “Welcome Concerto” that was organised in


the School Theatre by the students and teachers of class II M of Liceo Musicale. This musical

intermezzo, along with the tour of the school’s structures, have received a very positive

appreciation from all of our guests.

During the works each delegation has presented the results of their own activities linked to

Comenius Project. The coordinating country; Romania, has shown to the assembly the website

of the project in which materials from all the other participants can be fed, from all the previous

held meeting, and of course, our own material. Our school has presented some graphics where

it could be seen the results of the questionnaires which were undertaken by a representative

sample of students of our institute. It stemmed from reading these results that only a tiny part

of the students has lived in first person, and to different degrees, some form of prevarication

(in this institute or elsewhere). When a more consistent chunk said to have witnessed, with

their own eyes, to various degrees of forms of this phenomenon.

During these days in the our city, the guests have had the chance of visiting some of the more

representative spots of the Marche region such as The Frasassi Caves, the cities of Urbino and

Gradara. Having taken place to this project has been a very useful experience, because each

one of us has gained a greater understanding of Bullism, which in our everyday’s lives is

surrounding us all. Further, this experience has made us all more united, creating new channels

of communication with cultures different from our own but yet so similar.

Last but not least we had the opportunity to speak English….Particularly enjoyable has been

the dinner that was organised by us of the classes III L & IV C, helped by Professor De Carolis

and by some of the Alumni. This dinner was at the Parish of the Cappuccini, where, together

with foreign students, their own and our own teachers, we spent a very pleasant evening.

Leonardo Del Grande

Andrea Mazzoli

Luka Micheletti

(III L)

Trad Italiano – Inglese

Francesco Paolini

RESULTS OF SCHOOL RESEARCH


15 years all ages

YES 34 20

NO 44 33

15 years all ages

YES 34 20

NO 44 33


6) A)have you ever been … in your class?

B) Have you ever been sent nasty text/messages or e-mails ?


C)have you been asked to give up money or belongings?

If this has happened, how often does it occur?


15 years all ages

1 0 5

2 1 0


3 12 7

4 32 24

5 33 24

15 years all ages

1 0 5

2 1 0

3 12 7

4 32 24

5 33 24

15 years

YES 77 57

NO 1 0


15 years all ages

YES 77 57

NO 1 0


Project Activities in

Zespol Szkol , FILIPOW, POLAND

BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE KINDBE – OK

PROJECT AGAINST BULLYING

In November 2010 we organized a contest for the project poster and

logo. The winning works were taken to the meeting in Portugal where

they were presented for the partners.

In the first months of the project a survey was carried out among students. The objective of it

was to determine the scale of the bullying problem in the school. The students analyzed the

results of the survey and presented them in a power-point presentation in Pesaro, Italy. It

showed that the most common types of bullying are : verbal abuse, teasing and pushing.

According to the survey it mostly occurs in the hall, changing rooms and bathrooms. A lot of

students answered that bullying is a serious problem in our school.



We decided to devote a part of the school website to the project. Our students who have

participated in the project describe there their experiences connected with the mobilities. It also

includes a photo gallery with pictures from all the meetings. Also, a few articles about bullying

were written by the teachers and put on the website. Moreover, a short report after each meeting

is presented there.

You can find out more on www. zsfilipow.republika.pl

For the meeting in Poland (June 2011) we prepared a folder which included :

- a leaflet about bullying in Polish and English

- a quiz about the phenomena of bullying

- workshop materials -for the discussions about different ways of dealing with typical

situations connected with the problem of bullying in schools

- a quiz about the countries of all the partners

- descriptions of the places of interest around Filipów


Students also prepared, as a gift for the partners,

framed posters about bulling.

On one of the hallway boards we have a collection of pictures from all the meetings displayed.

It also includes students’ works connected with the project.


Students have also written articles about bullying for the school magazine ‘HEJ’.

A few articles were written by our teachers for the project

newsletter.

At the beginning of this school year (2011 – 2012) students joined a campaign ‘ It’s worth

being good’. The objective of the campaign is to promote good behaviour, good deeds towards

others and popularize human rights. Students compete in three areas :

- me and another person

- me and the local society

- me and the world


The winner of the campaign at the end of the term will be awarded a mountain bike displayed

in the main hallway.

A group of students who belong to school organization ‘Caritas’

have been actively helping and supporting a local orphanage

and school for the mentally disabled. They organize for them

different activities e.g. Christmas parties, theatre plays.

Students also organize different types of collections – e.g toys

and school materials for the orphanage.

Our students are also involved in the collecting caps campaign. They collect caps from

different types of containers and then they have them recycled - for each kilogram of caps they

get money which they donate for a good cause e.g. a disabled person rehabilitation or a

wheelchair.


Moreover, an antibullying program for the school was written by a group of our teachers. It’s a

long and extensive document which describes different types of actions to be taken in the

school to prevent bullying and promote non-violent behaviour.

Some of the teachers took part in an anger management training course where they were taught

skills useful for working with children. There were also other courses for teachers e.g.

mediations between teachers and students.

Two workshops were aslo organized for students : ‘Stop

violence’ and ‘Cyberbullying’. During the lecture students were

informed by professional trainers about the consequences of

bullying in the school and also about threats on the Internet.


What is more, we had a special cabinet made for the school in

which we display all the souvenirs from the mobilities and

materials connected with the project.

Another campaign in which our students participated (for a second time) is called ‘A white

ribbon- I say NO to violence’. The objective of the campaign is to protest against violence

towards women. As a sign of solidarity with the campaign, boys from the school wore white

ribbons on their outfits which meant that they would never use, accept or remain silent about

violence towards women.


‘Fair play’ club – a group of students from the gymnasium who belong to the club decided to

take care of their younger friends ( from the primary school) who have misbehaved in the

school. They have monitored the behaviour of the children giving them points for: good

behaviour, being active in class and good marks. Trips to the swimming pool and skiing trips

were a kind of award for the young pupils.

To promote our project ‘Brave enough to be kind’ we created a school calendar for 2012-2013

with pictures from all the meetings. We hope it will also promote the Comenius programme in

your schools.


As the final product we decided to have a special magazine issued describing all the activities

which have been carried out in our school during the whole project and containing information

about partnership schools.


Have you ever been :

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80 kicked

threatened

hit

teased

pushed

excluded

verbally abused

intimidated

robbed

vandalism

Who is the bully at your school :

all the samestudents (41)

rather boys(82)

rather girls (14)


Did you tell about being bullied? Whom?

0 20 40 60

I didn't tellanyone

sister/brother

onother adult

schoolcounselor

a parent

a friend

a teacher

Have you ever seen someone else being

bullied?

Yes (116)

No (18)

Where is bullying most likely to occur?

0

20

40

60

80

100

120 in the bathroom

in the classroom

in the hall

in the canteen

in the playground

on the way to orfrom school

in the changingroom


What would you do if you were being

bullied?

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50 hit the bully

walkaway/ignore

tell an adult

insult the bully

stand up to thebully

skip school

try to talk to thebully

Do you think bullying is a serious problem

in your school ?

0

20

40

60

80

100

Yes(59)

No(88)

Have you ever made fun of someone because of

his/her appearance, the way he/she talks, dresses

or acts?

0 20 40 60 80

No(62)

Yes(40)


Brave enough to be kind – RECOMANDATIONS

Do not laugh at others.

Try to accept everyone!

Do not make fun of other people’s mistakes. Help!

Do not take without persmission.

Ask!


Do not make fun of others’misfortunes … Help..

Do not tease others ..

React! when you see others being bullied ..

Do not send cruel instant messages – it is cyberbulling.

Support the one who is being bullied. Just be there for them and be a friend.

Do not steal from other kids. Report the bullying to a trusted adult. Telling is NOT tattling!


Material for the brochure – Portuguese partner

Application Survey in Escola Profissional da Praia da Vitória - Results

Respondents

Year

Classes Surveyed

Total Students

Students Respondents

1st

V2 (PROFIJ)

18

16

2nd

M2 (PROFIJ)

11

10

2nd

L2 (PROFIJ)

12

12

2nd

J2 (PROFIJ)

11

10

2nd

N2 (Level Three)

14

14

2nd

O2 (Level Three)

15

14

2nd

P2 (Level Three)

21

18

Total: 7 Classes

102

94

1- What is Bullying?

100 88

80

60

40

20 1 2 3

0

Sports

Psyical violence, verbal and psychological violence among school students

Dish

Tradition of an indegenous culture


48

45

7

2- Do you think Bullying is a current topic?

90

80 77

70

60

50 Yes

40 No

30

20 17

10

0

3- In your opinion, do you think this pratice is common in your school?

48,5

48

47,5

47

46,5

46

45,5

45

44,5

44

43,5

Yes No

4- How many times you seen your colleagues are victims of Bullying in

your school?

35 33

30

25 24

21

20

15

10 9

5

Between 1 and 3 Between 3 and 6 Between 6 and 10 Over 10 None


62

32

5- What attitudes doses to counteract this trend?

60

52

50

40

30

20 17

13 12

10

0

You retire Avenge you Dodge Promotion

6- Already practiced Bullying?

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

Yes No


69

7- Do you know anyone that practice Bullying in your school?

50

45 43

40

35

30

25 23

20 18

15

10 6 4

5

0

Between 1 and 3 Between 3 and 6 Between 6 and 10 Over 10 None

8- Already suffered by this act?

80

70

60

50

40

30 25

20

10

0

Yes No


60

22

9

3

45

35

13

9- Do you think it's important to discuss/disclose this subject in school?

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0

Very important Important Minor Nothing important

10- What would you like your school to do to prevent Bullying?

50

45

40

35

30

25

20

15

10

5

0

Awareness-raising Testimony of students or former students victims of Bullying Other


Logo, poster and flyer


COMENIUS PROJECT: "BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE KIND"

Project Against Bullying (BE-OK)

1st meeting – Romania

Article: 2nd meeting – Terceira Island

The 2nd meeting of the Comenius Project about Bullying: "Brave Enough

to Be Kind - Be OK”, was held in Escola Profissional da Praia da Vitória between

March 30th and April 3rd 2011. This initiative was implemented to elect the best logo

(the selected logo was created by Rodrigo Borba, from Class F2, Technical

Multimedia) and billboards. Additionally it was around exchanging ideas about the

meaning of bullying, showing all the work done so far by the various partners and

preparing the activities for the next meeting, which is due to June 1st to 5th in Poland.

The planned activities took place within the normal range and all the objectives set for

the meeting were achieved.


Article:

3rd meeting

- Poland

Was held between 1 and 5 June 2011, the city of Filippo, in Poland, the third meeting

of the Comenius Project: "Brave Enough to Be Kind - Be OK" on Bullying. This

initiative was intended to show all the work done so far by the various partners, and

preparation of activities for the next meeting to be held between 19 and 23 October

this year in Italy. The planned activities took place within the normal range and

objectives of the meeting were all achieved.

written by

Cláudia Mourão

Article: 4th meeting - Italy

Was held between 19 and 21 October 2011, the city of Pesaro, Italy, the fourth meeting

of the Comenius Project: "Brave Enough to Be Kind - Be OK" on Bullying. This

initiative was to reveal all the work done so far by various partners, and

preparation of activities for the next meeting to be held between 4 and 6 June 2012 in


Bulgaria. The planned activities took place within the normal range and objectives of the

meeting were all met.

written by: Cláudia Mourão

Workshops about Bullying: 2010-2012

Newsletters - Activities carried out

Was held between 11 and 14 April 2011, at the Bar "ETIS" Santa Casa da Misericórdia

of Praia da Vitória, an awareness campaign entitled "Bullying: School Violence." This

initiative has as objective to know the phenomenon of bullying, deconstruct myths

associated with Bullying, provide a practical perspective on the problem of Bullying,

strategies to promote conflict resolution without resorting to violence and finally,

identify strategies for preventing Bullying. The Center for Initiatives to Prevent and

Combat Domestic Violence and Professional School of Praia da Vitória were the

promoters of this event. The target population for this initiative were the students of

class S2, V2 and O2.

Throughout the session were several activities such as debates, recording of the


same conclusions, reading and analyzing texts with case studies about Bullying, which

resulted in the realization of wallpapers, which will later be posted on the school. In

general, all students have proved receptive to implementing the proposed activities,

making himself a very positive balance of the meeting.

written by Cláudia Mourão

Newsletters - Activities carried out

Was performed between days 12, 13, 15 and 16 March 2012, the Professional

School of Praia da Vitoria, an awareness campaign entitled "Bullying, School

Violence." This initiative has as objective to know the phenomenon of bullying,

deconstruct myths associated with bullying, provide a practical perspective on the

problem of bullying, strategies to promote conflict resolution without resorting to

violence and finally to identify prevention strategies against bullying. The Core

Initiatives to Prevent and Combat Domestic Violence and Professional School of Praia


da Vitoria were the promoters of this event. The target population for this initiative were

the students of class X2, W2, D3, E3, F3 and B3.

Throughout the session was held a game where each student had to choose one

envelope. Each envelope contained, or a sentence

based on the theme, or a task to do (mime, drawing). Randomly, each student had to

read / draw or mimic, on the subject matter of each card envelope. Subsequently each

student gave his opinion, generating a debate in this way.

In general, all students showed themselves receptive to implementing the proposed

activities, making himself a very positive balance of the meeting.

written by Cláudia Mourão


Movie Script

Assays for the production of the film


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Recording the film


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Activities HeldSchool Year 2011/2012

Class D3


Class W2


3.Awareness Campaign – Europe Day (May 24th and 25th 2012)

School Canteen


Exhibitions Room – Projects prepared by the students

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