School Strategies to Prevent and Manage Bullying
Harvey SHS has a three tiered approach to preventing and managing incidents of bullying, which include:
- Whole-School Prevention Strategies
- Specific Cohort Programs
- Support for Individual Students
Whole-School Prevention Strategies:
- Positive Behaviour Support
- Behaviour Management AD Policy
- Student Services Team
- Week 1 Induction Program
- Staff training in Co-LATE Model
- Provision of “safe” highly supervised areas during breaks
- Tracking of incidents on School Database System
Specific Cohort Strategies:
- Year 6 Transition Program
- Inclusion of social skill development and preventing bullying programs within curriculum
- Parent Workshops
Support for Individual Students and Parents
- Monitoring Cards
- Buddy Program
- Case Management
- Restorative Meetings held by Year Managers
- Access to specialist Student Services Support Staff
Positive Behaviour Support
Harvey Senior High School is dedicated to helping students demonstrate positive behaviours. We have four behaviour expectations:
Respect Self, Respect Others, Respect Learning, Respect the Environment.
Students who demonstrate positive behaviour in and out of class will receive a Respectable which they can submit in form for weekly form prizes, end of term prizes (for whole form), and the Major prize give away of $50 vouchers at the end of semester.
Acknowledgement System
When students demonstrate appropriate behaviour during school hours they are rewarded with Respectables. Throughout the year there are several other awards allocated:
- Bronze Certificates (25 respectables)
- Silver Certificates (50 respectables)
- Gold Certificates (100 respectables)
- End of term: the highest Form – sausage sizzle/fun event
- End of semester: Individual draw – 2x JBHiFi vouchers ($50)
- End of year: Top 30 students prize (bowling, movies etc)
