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
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Community Partnerships
Whole Student Approach
Student Empowerment
School Stories

Bullying and Harassment links to Society & History

Activities & Sessions

Possible Outcomes

Discrimination game 

Brainstorm discrimination - definitions & ‘labels’ - pages 30-31

Grouping - ranking labels - page 31

Pictorial version - page 32

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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Researching bullying 

Bullying survey - pages 33-34

Dear Dorrie letters - page 34

Reporting on survey results - page 34

Whole school survey extension task - page 35

Surveys (template) - page 36

Recorders (record sheets) - pages 37-41

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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Designing a friendly environment campaign 

Designing a friendly environment campaign - page 51

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

5. Responsible citizenship

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

5. Responsible citizenship

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

5. Responsible citizenship

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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Status 

Warm-up games - pages 90-91

Power pairs - bullying tableaus - pages 91-92

‘Human Guinea Pig’ scenarios - page 92

Sample questions - page 93

1. Identity, relationships and culture

5. Responsible citizenship

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Belonging 

Warm-up games - page 99

Greetings game - mingle and greet - page 100

Conflict of wants - acting exercise - pages 100-101

Enter new kid - small group improvisation - pages 101-102

Mask it, move it - page 102

1. Identity, relationships and culture

5. Responsible citizenship

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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

1. Identity, relationships and culture

5. Responsible citizenship

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Group project – design a drama 

Group project - design a drama - pages 112-113

Use naturalistic and anti-naturalistic techniques to devise a short drama on the theme of bullying (several lessons)

Ideas for student feedback - page 113

1. Identity, relationships and culture

2. Democratic values and processes

5. Responsible citizenship

6. Historical inquiry

7. Philosophical inquiry

8. Communication

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