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School Choir Dates

Wed 26 Nov 2014

Dear Parents

School Choir have been rehearsing regularly for the following performances:

Wednesday 10^th December

Christmas by Candlelight

St Giles Church

7.00pm-8.30-9.00pm

(Parents are encouraged to attend this event. Tickets are priced at £3.00 and are available from the School Office.)

Sunday 14^th December

Christingle Service

St Giles Church

5.00pm-6.00pm

Tuesday 16^th December

Willenhall Library

10.30am-11.00am

If your child is a member of the School Choir it is essential that your child attends all the events listed.

Bullying is the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power. It can happen face-to-face or through cyberspace, and comes in many different forms:

Verbal: Name calling, persistent teasing, mocking, taunting and threats.

Physical: Any form of physical violence, intimidating behaviour, theft or the intentional damage of possessions. This includes hitting, kicking and pushing.

Emotional: Excluding, tormenting, ridiculing, humiliation, setting people up and spreading rumours.

Cyber: Cyber bullying is the misuse of digital technologies or communications to bully a person or a group, typically through messages or actions that are threatening and/or intended to cause offence, anxiety or humiliation.

Who gets bullied?

Children and young people are most commonly bullied because of a real or perceived 'difference'. This difference can be anything, but in our experience bullying is often:

Racist: Bullying based on ethnicity, skin colour, language, religious or cultural practices.

Homophobic: Discrimination based on sexuality and/or gender identity.

Sexual: Unwelcome sexual advances or remarks that are intended to cause offence, humiliation or intimidation. This could include pressure to send images of a sexual nature.

Disabilist: The bullying of children who have special educational needs and disabilities.

Discriminative: Bullying based on any perceived weakness such as children in fostering or care homes, young carers, those with disabled siblings or parents, single parent families, low economic backgrounds…

What is NOT bullying

One-off incidents: Bullying is persistent and repetitive, and generally fits a pattern of behaviour. However, there will be occasions when a one-off incident is so significant that it causes long term effects, and is therefore categorised as bullying. One example may be extreme public humiliation that deters someone from engaging in discussions or social events.

Mutual conflict: A disagreement, argument or fight in which both parties have equally participated and where there is no imbalance of power.

Reception Admission 2015

Tue 18 Nov 2014

Dear Parent

A workshop has been organised for Wednesday 3rd December at 6.30pm in the school hall, where a representative from School Admissions will be available to support you with the application process.

If you are unsure of the process or need advice and support, it is essential that you attend.

Anti-Bullying Production- 'Sticks and Stones'.

Sun 09 Nov 2014

Dear Parent

Bullying has always been around, it is often dismissed as unimportant and 'Just kids playing'. If this statement is true, why is it that even though adults are concerned about the problem, they find it difficult to cope with and resolve?

Bullying is a serious social problem. It may start in the playground but it doesn't stop there. A child who is a bully often continues to be so into their adult life. One study has shown that bullies are more likely to be violent as adults and have difficulty in forming relationships. Bully like behaviour in children can only lead to problems in the future.

The children's organisation KIDSCAPE conducted a pilot study on bullying. 4,000 children, aged between 5 and 16 took part in the scheme. An alarming 2,740 (68% of the group) complained of being bullied at some time. Many of these incidents happened
when travelling to or from school and usually took place when no adult was present

. 1,520 (38%) of children had been bullied more than once or had experienced a particularly terrifying bullying incident. Of the 1,520 who were bullied more seriously 1,033 were boys (68%) and 483 (32%) were girls.

Many of these had been chronically bullied, to the point where it was affecting their everyday lives. Some of these children were terrified of going to school, were often truant or had attempted suicide.

The reported bullies were mainly boys - 80% and usually at least two years older than their victims.

The latest data reveals that a third of all primary pupils are bullied at some stage. This alarming survey underlines the intensity of the problem and prompted FIREHORSE to act positively to the issue.

We have produced 3 anti bullying productions, Bully's Paradise, The B Word and now Sticks and Stones.

All the productions aim to underline that no child deserves to be bullied and to encourage children not to tolerate such behaviour from their peers. A school hosting this production does not necessarily have to have a bullying problem, prevention is always better than cure.

Bullying has always been around, but that doesn't mean it has to exist in our schools forever.

We hope that this information and suggestions that follow help your school in tackling this issue and aids our mission for zero tolerance on bullying in our schools.