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Getting Started on The Whole School Approach
MindMatters Recognition and Overview
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Bullying and Harassment links to The Arts

Activities & Sessions

Possible Outcomes 

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

Media

  • Media techniques and practices are used to market, promote, deliver and exhibit media texts.

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

Drama

  • Roles, characters and relationships are interpreted to define motivation and purpose, using specific vocal and physical techniques.

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.

Music (if doing song)

  • Duration, beat, time values and metre are used to create and vary rhythm.
  • Pitch, tonalities, scales and intervals are used to create and vary the horizontal arrangement of sound.
  • Tonalities and harmonies are used to organise music in different vertical arrangements.
  • Contemporary, traditional and genre-specific musical forms are used to structure music.
  • Interaction between the linear and the vertical arrangement of music is used to create the texture or density of sound.
  • Vocal, instrumental, electronic and computer-generated sound sources have characteristic sound qualities (tone colour) that can be altered through methods of production and manipulation.
  • Relative softness and loudness of sounds, and digital and electronic devices, are used to change dynamic levels and expression of music.

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

Drama

  • Roles, characters and relationships are interpreted to define motivation and purpose, using specific vocal and physical techniques.

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.

Designing a friendly environment campaign

Designing a friendly environment campaign - page 51

Media

  • Still and moving images, sounds and words are used to construct and reconstruct meaning in media texts.
  • Media techniques and practices are used to market, promote, deliver and exhibit media texts.
  • Representations of different beliefs and ideas in media texts are influenced by regulations and by contexts of audiences, producers and institutions.

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.

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

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.

Let’s make a story

Developing their story - page 75 - Writing a story for younger children, illustrating and sharing

Completing the story - page 75

Media

  • Still and moving images, sounds and words are used to construct and reconstruct meaning in media texts.

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.

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

Media

  • Still and moving images, sounds and words are used to construct and reconstruct meaning in media texts.

Standing up for yourself

Warm-up games - pages 107-108

Paired protests - role-play assertiveness - pages 108-109

Hidden thoughts - a technique for exploring sub-text - page 109

Drama

  • Roles, characters and relationships are interpreted to define motivation and purpose, using specific vocal and physical techniques.

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

Drama

  • Roles, characters and relationships are interpreted to define motivation and purpose, using specific vocal and physical techniques.
  • Drama elements are manipulated to create tension and status, and are used to express ideas.
  • Dramatic action and texts are created and interpreted through specific styles, including realism and non-realism.

Media

  • Still and moving images, sounds and words are used to construct and reconstruct meaning in media texts.
  • Media techniques and practices are used to market, promote, deliver and exhibit media texts.

Visual art

  • Design and visual documentation are used to develop images and objects from visual, verbal and tactile stimuli.
  • Media areas are used in isolation and in combination to make arts works.
  • Visual arts elements and concepts in combination are used to create compositions.