Bedford Academy encourages students to show respect in their relationships with all members of the Academy’s community.
The Academy takes a zero-tolerance attitude to bullying – this includes all forms of bullying relating to race, religion and culture, homophobic bullying, bullying related to special educational needs and disabilities, sexist and sexual bullying, and the use of cyber technology to bully.
We encourage students to:
- Say NO to BULLYING;
- Know and understand what bullying means and the consequences of bullying-type behaviour;
- Be active not passive – speak out and report incidents;
- Listen to, support and help bullied students;
- Take personal responsibility;
- Take collective responsibility;
- Develop loyalty to the Academy and students within it.
ANTI-BULLYING MENTORS
The mentor scheme is aimed at ensuring students time at Bedford Academy is not only a success academically, but the students feel safe, happy and fully supported. We appreciate that, at times, talking to an adult can be hard so we have thirteen students fully trained to support our young people who feel they need someone to talk to.
Our mentors are able to:
- Assess the extent of bullying and effectiveness of existing strategies;
- Lead anti-bullying groups;
- Provide peer support and a peer buddy;
- Lead anti-bullying conferences and awareness weeks;
- Lead anti-bullying assemblies;
- Lead anti-bullying competitions;
- Manage 'safe zones' in the academy