Aims of the project

The best way to address bullying is to stop it before it starts. There are a number of things school staff can do to make schools safer and prevent bullying. Schools need to respond to bullying whether or not the individual shows serious or immediate harm. Responding immediately and appropriately can stop bullying escalating or happening again.

The aims of our project:

For students

- Developing empathy, group work and collaboration, anger control, problem solving, and the ability to say "no"

- Learning the types of bullying (physical, verbal, cyber and psychological), what bullying is and what the effects of it can be

and what he/she can do when exposed to bullying

- Learning how to communicate positively, control negative emotions and behaviours

- Expressing himself/herself and his/her feelings, revealing positive personality traits and character strengths

- Gaining “culture of living with differences” by focusing on differences

For teachers

-Acquire a greater understanding of the various forms of bullying and deeper knowledge about impacts, risk factors and

long-term effects on victims and bullies

-Get to know how to build a positive and safe classroom environment and develop social and emotional learning

-Creating pedagogical material that improves the capacity and skills of teachers in the management of bullying, according to new technologies and communication channels

-Having ability of detecting bullying behaviours, learning the methods of preventing and intervening at bullying, integrating anti-bullying issues

-Strengthening communication among students and group work events for socializing (icebreaker games), grouping

differently to prevent social exclusion, learning methods and techniques of intervention and prevention.

-Teach students to be Effective Bystanders

-Increase Bullying Awareness among parents

-Be an Advocate for Anti-Bullying

-Develop Appropriate Interventions

-Check in With Both the Victim and the Bully

For the schools

-Developing strategies for intervention and preventing bullying

-Raising awareness about violence in school

-Increasing awareness of bullying for management, teachers, staff, students and parents

-Creating a centre where students who are bullied can apply at school

-Increasing social, artistic and sporting activities in the aim of reducing bullying

-Increasing different environments and workshops where students can express themselves

-Creating culture of living with differences

All these objectives are directly connected with our first horizontal objective: Social Inclusion. It is important because all children have a right to a good education, to feel valued, have the opportunity to fulfil their potential and take part in educational opportunities with their peers. We intend with this project to raise awareness in our students and the educational community towards preventing Bullying and its importance, providing other schools with the guidance and examples needed to replicate the initiative in future projects.