For teachers and families
Information for teachers
As teachers, a key part of our professional practice is to create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments. Students who experience a caring, safe school environment, where they feel they belong, have a strong foundation to achieve their academic and social emotional potential.
Teachers support students to be bold, be kind, and speak up against bullying. Positive teacher-student relationships help create supportive classrooms where everyone is respected. A positive environment helps students feel like they belong and reduces bullying.
Ways teachers can support students to be kind and speak up against bullying in school include:
- Getting to know your students
- Fostering peer relationships
- Using inclusive teaching practices
- Providing pastoral support opportunities
- Encouraging student ownership of learning
- Interacting positively with all students
- Engaging families
Visit Bullying No Way for professional development on bullying prevention.
Also see Kids Helpline school resources and eSafety’s cyberbullying hub.
Information for families
During Bullying No Way Week, explore how your school community can be bold, be kind and speak up together.
The best way to stop bullying is by working together. That means students, teachers, families and friends standing up, speaking out and supporting each other.
Help your school community understand what bullying is, how they can talk to and support their child and if required, report bullying incidents to the school.
Download and share this fact sheet. Include the template articles in your school newsletter or share the social media posts across your platforms.
Share this webinar from Kids Helpline to help parents and carers support a child or young person who is being bullied.
We can create a school and community where everyone feels welcome and respected. Let’s be bold, be kind and speak up - together.