How do we prevent bullying?
Our Falmouth School Cultures promote all our values that are underpinned by the British Values, awareness of the protected characteristics and emphasis on sharing of the school environment in harmony.
Our routines which include Morning Greetings, assemblies, tutor time, monitoring of school attendance, lesson routines, and analysis of praise and behaviour information, all these aspects enable us to become promptly aware of incidents linked to child-on-child abuse. We also work with students, through the assemblies, PSHE lessons and other specific initiatives to raise their awareness of what bullying means, how to report it when witnessing it or experiencing it.
As educators, we focus on educating students how to positively manage social interactions and how to move forward from any mistakes and disagreements. Restorative Practice, adult support and small group work can be utilised to repair and restore the relationships and gain deeper understanding about the harms associated with bullying.
At the same time, bullying is taken very seriously and the school follows the Behaviour Policy to issue sanctions, depending on the severity of each incident. Falmouth School has been engaging with Anti Bullying Week, Hello Yellow and Positive Noticing Day as well as Safer Internet Day and other initiatives to navigate students into being respectful global citizens who make their Falmouth Family proud everywhere they go.