Whole School Matters draft manuscript
Community Matters draft manuscript
Getting Started on The Whole School Approach
MindMatters Recognition and Overview
MindMatters Planning Tools
School Audits and Surveys
Curriculum Links
Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Community Partnerships
Whole Student Approach
Student Empowerment
School Stories

Bullying and Harassment links to English

Activities & Sessions

Bodymapping - bullying behaviours 

I remember - pages 23-24

Sharing & comparing - page 24

Bullybodies: brainstorming bullying behaviours - pages 24-25

Identifying reasons for bullying - page 26

Advice & problem solving 

Advice & problem solving - pages 42-43

Sample questions - pages 43-44

Alternative for small group - page 43

Workbook activities: - page 44

• Create comic strips to solve problems

• Role-play a problem being solved

• Write letter, write a song or poem

Role cards (template) - page 45

Speaking up 

Exploring the options at this school - page 46

Standing up for yourself - pages 47-48

Ingredients of an apology - pages 48-49

What can the bystander do? - page 50

Designing a friendly environment campaign 

Designing a friendly environment campaign - page 51

Bullying, harassment, teasing: what does it mean? 

Bullying, harassment, teasing: what does it mean? - page 57

‘Being nobody’ poem - page 58

Giving voice (worksheet) - page 59

Giving voice using poem (worksheet) - page 60

Bundling & cluster mapping 

How to - pages 61-62

Bundling and cluster mapping (worksheet) - page 63

What do poets say? 

Small groups - page 64

Whole class - read poems, compare and discuss - page 64

Jumbled poems  (template) - page 66

Original poems (handout) - page 67

Reading activity - let’s tell a story 

What is the message? - pages 68-69

How is it said? - page 69

Brainstorm - how to pass messages on to younger kids - page 70

Writing for purpose & audience - let’s make a story 

Discussing bullying - pages 71-72

Getting started - page 72

Let’s make a story (handout) - page 73

Brainstorm! (record sheet) - page 74

Let’s make a story 

Developing their story - page 75

Writing a story for younger children, illustrating and sharing

Completing the story - page 75

What do the newspapers say? 

Read it, talk about it - page 76

Comprehension questions - page 77

Improvise a play about it! - page 78

Newspaper articles (handout) - page 79

Improvise a play (scenarios handout) - page 80

Inform, explain, instruct - tell it as it is 

Preparing a short talk - page 81

Inform, explain, instruct (handout) - page 82

Prompt cards (handout) - page 83

The Inside story 

Warm-up games - page 103

Inside the bully - sub-text exercise - page 104

Inside/outside - creating tableaux and a text collage - page 105

Creating a text collage - page 105

Sample questions - page 106