Bullying Prevention 2024-2025

Tiger Jeet Singh Public School, along with all schools in the #HDSB, is committed to taking immediate and proactive action to prevent and address all incidents of bullying to create safe, inclusive and welcoming environments for all students. Our Bullying Response Protocol guides us to address every incident of bullying quickly and with care. Through our online reporting tool, students and families can confidentially report bullying. Visit the HDSB website to learn more about the Bullying Response Protocol, access the online reporting tool and explore resources for families to support bullying prevention. Together, we can create a safe school environment for all. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fHook2 

Bullying Prevention/Well-Being Team at Tiger Jeet Singh PS 2024-2025

Principal/Vice Principal:  Janet Reesor (P), James Johnston (VP), Kelly Shepherd/Kim Phillips (VP short term)

Teaching Staff: N. May, A. McMillan, J. Wood, M. Catalfamo

Non-Teaching Staff:  K. Tank

Parent Member:  S. Azim

Students: A.B., A.K., AR.S., B.S., E.R., J.A., J.H., K.A., K.P., L.A., M.S., N.F., S.E., S.K., T.R., Z.I.

Reflecting on Data:  (Have Your Say Data for 2023-2024)

80% of our students said they have not experienced physical bullying and 86% indicate that they have not experienced cyber bullying.  However, 48% of our students indicate that they have experienced verbal bullying and 41% indicate that they have experienced social bullying at some point in the past year.  These types of bullying are difficult to observe as they are often experienced during personal conversations in hallways, at recess, and other times adults may not be within hearing distance.  

Our Goals:

By June 2025 there will be a 5% decrease in the percentage of students who experience verbal or social bullying at school and by June 2026 there will be a 10% decrease overall.

How will we reach our goals?:

• Provide direction instruction or appropriate social skills

• Explicit teaching of the HDSB Code of Conduct; the difference between bullying and conflict;  the types of bullying (Seven Forms of Bullying);  and strategies to combat them

• School wide activities to promote positive behaviour

  • Be Kind, Work Hard, Make a Difference (our lived vision/motto)

  • Bullying Prevention Assemblies

  • Student Led Bullying Prevention Classroom visits

  • Student Activities and Clubs

  • BRAVE education

  • Virtual Headstrong Summit

  • Equipment available for outside play

  • Teach, model, and encourage self-regulation

  • Student concerns are addressed (Community Circles, Class meetings, teacher follow up, admin follow up)

• Promotion of Bullying Prevention Week and Kindness Week

• Use an Inclusive Design approach to planning lessons and activities

• Clubs specific to developing social skills and supporting allyship

  • GSA

  • PALs

  • BSA

  • Girls At Bat

How Will We Measure Our Change?

• December (2024) and May (2025) School Created Survey

• Have Your Say Survey June 2025

How Do We Respond to Bullying?

1. Follow the HDSB Bullying Response Protocol

2. For all incidents:

   1. Assess student safety

   2. Acknowledge and affirm feelings of the victim

   3. Gather information and ask questions

   4. Assess the severity of the incident

   5. Utilize the Discriminatory and Harmful Language Protocol if needed

   6. Make a plan for support for victim and follow up consequences for the perpetrator keeping bias free progressive discipline in mind

   7. Possibly access/use the following:

      1. Access school Child and Youth Counsellor

      2. Access school Social Worker

      3. Collaborative Problem Solving

      4. Restorative Justice Steps

An integral part of the process is communication with both the victim’s and the perpetrator’s families.  A school support team using the Circle of Support model will ensure that parents and students know what happened; how it is being dealt with; and how these actions impact not only the individuals, but their families and school community/classmates.

Ways in which we learn; communicate our learning; implement plans to support students in order to prevent bullying or respond to it; and monitor/assess our success related to our goals:

TEACHERS:

1. Safe and Inclusive Schools Policies and Procedures

2. Public Health Resources

3. School Team and School Resource Team (SRT)

4. Bullying Prevention/Wellness Meetings

5. Bullying Awareness and Prevention Resources

6. Centralized HDSB workshops and PD

7. Tiger Talk Communication with parent community.

8. Promote positive mental health using HDSB Well-Being Expected Practices

9. Model positive, welcoming, inclusive, and empathetic talk in the classroom and hallways

10. Co-created classroom anchor charts designed to reference expectations

11. Tiger Jeet Singh PS Common Expectations

12. Provide many opportunities for students to be engaged in school activities

13. Promote positive behaviours

14. Understand and use Critical Consciousness to assess and plan lessons

15. Promote acceptance of all, regardless of differences

16. Use Inclusive Design to plan lessons and activities

17. Promote and complete school-based surveys

18. Promote and complete HDSB centralized surveys (Have Your Say)

STUDENTS:

1. Demonstrate kindness to others

2. Use words to solve problems

3. Set healthy boundaries with friends (BRAVE program)

4. Be accepting of others’ differences

5. Understand the difference between intent vs impact

6. Complete school-based and HDSB centralized surveys

PARENTS/GUARDIANS:

1. Get involved (School Council, community events, Open House, Performances)

2. Reinforce positive approaches to problem solving in your discussions with your kids at home

3. Understand the difference between bullying and developmentally typical conflict

4. Read through and discuss the HDSB Code of Conduct with your children.

5. Complete HDSB centralized surveys that can provide us with feedback

This plan has been shared with staff and parents via:

• Website

• School communication (Tiger Talk)

• Staff meetings

• School council meetings