Anti Bullying Policy
Compassvale Secondary School takes a firm stand against all forms of bullying. Find out how we keep our school safe and what students, parents, and staff can do to help.
Our Commitment
At Compassvale Secondary School, we believe every child deserves to feel safe, valued, competent and empowered in their learning journey. We are committed to creating a caring and enabling school environment where all students can flourish and develop positive relationships with their peers.
Our approach focuses on teaching kindness, empathy, and respect whilst addressing any hurtful behaviour that may arise. We work together as a school community – staff, students, and parents – to ensure everyone feels they belong.
What are hurtful behaviours and bullying?
Hurtful behaviours are unkind and hurtful acts such as once-off insensitive comments, actions and physical fights, while bullying involves persistent and intentional hurtful acts.
Hurtful behaviours and bullying can take various forms, including verbal, social, physical and cyber:
Verbal: Name-calling, spreading rumours, or making threats
Social exclusion: Deliberately leaving someone out, or encouraging others to ignore someone
Physical actions: Pushing, hitting, or damaging someone's belongings
Cyber bullying: Using online technology like phones, computers, or social media to hurt or embarrass others on purpose and repeatedly
The school’s firm stance against hurtful behaviours
The school has ZERO TOLERANCE towards any forms of bullying. All students must also have zero tolerance towards bullying. Every student must take steps to build a stronger sense of empathy, respect and kindness for one another in the school community. All students must do their part to stop or prevent it from happening to their friends and themselves. If students encounter or know of any bullying, they must not be passive bystanders but demonstrate good citizenry by taking appropriate actions that can prevent bullying (e.g. promote a peer culture that discourages bullying / harassment) or mitigate the harm caused by bullying (e.g. reporting bullying to the authority, taking a united stand against cyberbullies on-line).
Bullying is a serious disciplinary offence and comes with serious consequences as stated in ‘Disciplinary Measures for Specific School Non-Compliance’.
How We Prevent Incidents
Take a firm stance against hurtful behaviours and bullying.
Foster a caring and enabling school environment, with positive teacher-student relationships and strong peer support structure with trained student leaders.
Conduct Character & Citizenship Education lessons on empathy, conflict management, resilience and cyber wellness.
Have regular communications with staff and students.
We review this policy regularly to make sure it continues to serve our school community well. Together, as a school community, we shape our students’ character, strengthen relationships, and build caring communities.