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It is warlike behaviour conducted by an individual or a group versus others - via electronic ways or via exclusion from electronic communities. Cyber bullying includes (but is not limited to) the use of mobile phones and the internet with the objective of causing upset, hurt, fear, embarrassment, humiliation, watchtower and/or distress to one or increasingly persons. It may take the form of unstipulated insults or impersonation, defamation or prejudice based bullying. Scope Cyber-Bullying has wilt increasingly prevalent in recent times and can be very rabble-rousing to  individuals, and disruptive to school life. Though new technology brings incredible opportunities for educators as well as young people, it is crucial that everyone knows how to use this technology responsibly and that policies are in place to support and encourage responsible use. St Mary’s College once has anti-bullying policies and procedures in place but cyber-bullying presents new challenges not encompassed in these policies. This document is aimed at combating cyber-bullying and should be read in conjunction with the Anti-Bullying Policy of St Mary’s College. While this policy addresses issues related to cyber-bullying of students (i.e. situations in which one or increasingly students are the victim(s) of bullying), the policy moreover applies to teaching and other school staff, parents/guardians, and others insofar as measures under the policy relate to them. This policy applies to activities and events that take place: ● During school time (including unravel times) ● Going to and from school ● School tours/trips ● Extra-curricular activities ● St. Mary’s College acknowledges that while it is primarily the role of the parent/guardian to address/help prevent cyber-bullying, the school reserves the right to take whoopee versus bullying perpetrated outside the school which spills over into the school. Objectives: This policy aims to ensure that: 1. Students, staff and parents know well-nigh cyber bullying and its effects; 2. Each student’s right to enjoy her learning environment self-ruling from cyber-bullying while at school and while involved in uneaten curricular activities is highlighted and protected as far as possible; 3. Each staff member’s right to enjoy his/her work environment self-ruling from cyber-bullying while at school and while involved in uneaten curricular activities is similarly highlighted and protected as far as possible; 4. Members of the school polity have the knowledge, policies and procedures to prevent and, if necessary, to deal with cyber-bullying in school or within the school community; 5. Help and support is offered to victims of such bullying; 6. Persons involved in cyber-bullying are confronted and assisted in executive and understanding the consequences of their behaviour; 7. The school monitors the effectiveness of its procedures and retrievement them where necessary. Relationship to foible spirit of the school (school’s mission/vision/aims) St. Mary’s College is committed, to the extent permissible by misogynist resources, to helping members of the school polity to enhance their learning experiences through the use of modern technology. The school acknowledges that information andLiaisonTechnologies (ICT) can play an important role in supporting learning, but moreover that they can be misused and can present risks. The School aims to equip members of the school polity with the skills and knowledge needed to use these technologies in a unscratched and responsible manner and to profitable those who encounter difficulties. The School moreover recognises that it must be vigilant towards bullying perpetrated outside School which spills over into the School. St. Mary’s College aims to create a caring environment where those in the school polity can work and learn without fear of stuff bullied. St. Mary’s College aims to educate and inform its students as to how to use communications equipment responsibly and well-nigh the serious consequences of cyber-bullying. The school will protract to inform and educate its pupils in these fast waffly areas. Goals 1 To create a school ethos which encourages students to unroll and discuss incidents of cyber-bullying behavior. 2 To raise sensation of cyber-bullying as an unacceptable form of behaviour with school management, teachers, students, parents/guardians. 3 To ensure that the school’s Social, Personal and Health Education programme raises sensation of the factors associated with cyber-bullying behaviour and develops towardly knowledge, skills and behaviours. 4 To take practical deportment to prevent incidents of cyber-bullying behaviour e.g. to ensure comprehensive supervision and monitoring measures through which all areas of school worriedness are kept under observation. 5 To develop procedures for reporting and recording incidents of cyber-bullying behaviour. 6 To develop procedures for investigating and dealing with incidents of cyber-bullying behaviour. 7 To develop a programme of support for those unauthentic by cyber-bullying behaviour and those involved in cyber-bullying behaviour. 8 To work with, and through, the various local agencies in countering all forms of cyber-bullying and anti-social behaviour. Key Measures ● The Principal will act, or will sublease a staff member to act, as a Cyber-Safety Officer, to oversee the practices and procedures outlined in this policy and monitor their effectiveness. ● The Cyber-Safety Officer will ensure that the school maintains details of agencies and resources that may squire in preventing and addressing bullying. ● Staff will be trained to identify signs of cyber bullying and will be helped to alimony informed well-nigh the technologies that children wontedly use. ● A lawmaking of translating will be developed, periodically reviewed and communicated to help students protect themselves from stuff involved in bullying (as perpetrator or as victim) and to teach them on reporting any incidents. ● Students will be informed well-nigh cyber bullying in the undertow of their education at the School.  Students and staff are expected to comply with the school’s ICT policy on the use of computers in the School. This is displayed prominently in the Computer Room and theLawmakingof Conduct is explained and discussed with pupils in assemblies, unstipulated classes and IT classes. ● Parents will be provided with information and translating on cyber bullying. Examples of Cyber-Bullying and Media used. These guidelines provide assistance in identifying and describing the types of policies involved in cyber-bullying. The ways of cyber-bullying are constantly waffly and the pursuit list of types of bullying behaviour can be expanded in light of the wits of the school community: Hate sites ● Building websites that are defended to making fun out of someone. ● Encouraging other people to join the bullying by publishing someone’s personal details or linking to their social network page.Wiseacremessages ● Transmitting wiseacre and/or threatening messages. Chat rooms and discussion forums ● Posting unforgiving and/or or wiseacre comments well-nigh someone. Mobile phone ● Sending humiliating and wiseacre video messages or photographic images messages. ● Making silent or wiseacre phone calls. ● Sending wiseacre text messages. Interactive gaming ● Locking victims out of games. ● Spreading false rumours well-nigh someone ● Hacking into someone’s account. Sending viruses ● Sending hacking programs to flipside person. ● Unauthorised interference with a computer device. Abusing personal information ● Transmitting personal photos, videos emails Blogs Posting blogs where others could see them without the owner of the blog’s permission. Prevention and Response The school informs students well-nigh cyber bullying and moreover takes misogynist steps to counter and respond to it. The pursuit measures represent the cadre of the School’s anti cyber-bullying activities: ● A positive school culture and climate; ● School-wide approach; ● Effective leadership; ● A shared understanding of what bullying is and its impact; ● Anti-bullying policies; ● Consistent recording of reported bullying behaviour; ● Education and training; ● Prevention strategies including sensation raising; ● Intervention strategies. St. Mary’s College trains its staff to respond powerfully to reports of cyber-bullying or harassment and has systems in place to respond to it. St. Mary’s College records all reported incidents of bullying behaviour including unrecognized bullying reports. St. Mary’s College provides information on cyber-bullying to all members of the school community. St. Mary’s College engages prevention and sensation raising measures and implements strategies to engage students in addressing problems when they see them. St. Mary’s College is a “telling school”. If a member of the school polity “speaks out” and reports an incident of cyber-bullying towardly whoopee will be taken. St. Mary’s College endeavours to woodcut wangle to inappropriate web sites, using firewalls, antivirus protection and filtering systems and no pupil is unliable to work on the internet in the Computer Room, or any other location within the school which may from time to time be used for such work, without a member of staff present. St Mary’s College endeavours to prevent cyber-bullying through its lawmaking of behaviour where the use of mobile phones on school grounds is prohibited. As a result, students are not permitted to wangle the internet from their phones. Whilst education and guidance remain at the centre of what we do, St Mary’s College reserves the right to take whoopee versus those who take part in cyber-bullying. St. Mary’s College supports victims and, when necessary, will work with the Gardaí and other State agencies to identify those involved in criminal acts and to support victims. St. Mary’s College will use, as appropriate, the full range of sanctions to correct, punish or remove pupils who bully fellow pupils or harass staff in this way, both inside and outside the school. All members of the School polity are enlightened they have a duty to bring to the sustentation of the Principal any example of cyber-bullying or harassment that they know well-nigh or suspect. GUIDANCE FOR STAFF If you suspect or are told well-nigh a cyber-bullying incident, follow the protocol outlined below: Mobile Phones  Ask the pupil to show you the mobile phone  Note unmistakably everything on the screen relating to an inappropriate text message or image, to include the date, time and names  Make a transcript of a spoken message, then record date, times and names  Tell the pupil to save the message/image  Go with the pupil and see the Principal. Computers  Ask the pupil to get up on-screen the material in question  Ask the pupil to save the material  Print off the offending material straight yonder  Make sure you have got all pages in the right order and that there are no omissions  Accompany the pupil, taking the offending material, to see the Principal.  Normal procedures to interview pupils and to take statements will then be followed. GUIDANCE FOR PUPILS  If you believe you or someone else is the victim of cyber-bullying, you must speak to an sultana as soon as possible. This person could be a parent/guardian, your tutor, or your teacher  Do not wordplay wiseacre messages but log and report them  Do not delete anything until it has been shown to your tutor or teacher, parents/guardian or the Principal (even if it is upsetting, the material is important vestige which may need to be used later as proof of cyber-bullying)  Do not requite out personal IT details  Never reply to wiseacre e-mails  Never reply to someone you do not know GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS  It is vital that parents and the school work together to ensure that all pupils are enlightened of the serious consequences of getting involved in anything that might be seen to be cyber-bullying. St. Mary’s College informs parents of the cyber-bullying policy and the procedures in place to deal with cyber-bullying.  Parents can help by making sure their child understands the school’s policy and, whilom all, how seriously St Mary’s take incidents of cyber-bullying  Parents should moreover explain to their children legal issues relating to cyber-bullying  If parents believe their child is the victim of cyber-bullying, they should save the offending material (if need be by saving an offensive text on their or their child’s mobile phone) and make sure they have all relevant information surpassing deleting anything  Parents should contact the Principal as soon as possible. A meeting can then be serried which may involve other relevant members of staff  If the incident happens outside of school then the school reserves the right to take whoopee versus bullying perpetrated outside the school which spills over into the school. Ratification &LiaisonThis Anti-Cyber Bullying Policy has been ratified by the Board of Management on 16th day of April 2013. Teachers, staff, parents and guardians will be involved in communicating and implementing this policy. A reprinting of this policy will be uploaded to the school website. Review This policy will be reviewed annually from the stage of ratification whilom and all noted reports of Anti-Cyber Bullying will moreover be reviewed. Latest NewsSt. Mary's is a Droichead School St. Mary's College is a Droichead school. This ways that St. Mary's supports the…Read more... 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