Apologies

Mr North is unwell

Ms Lucking is doing art

Ms Dearden is in detention

Agenda

• School Trips Funding
• Disability Discrimination
• Play on discrimination
• Halal Food

Minutes

School Trips Funding

Meeting hasn’t yet taken place. Ms C will rearrange. Does it include trips to the theatre? Twelfth night. Dion will join the meeting because he’/ going on a trip with Mr Curran which he had to pay for. Aiming Tuesday lesson 3.

Disability Discrimination:

People refusing to sit next to an autistic student. Spam, retard, using special needs as an insult. Using the SENs someone has as an insult or telling them to go down a set when people get a question wrong. Paolo revealed a case of bullying of a boy who he knows has a condition or disability which people tease. Ms C will investigate the accusations here.

We discussed how this type of bullying could effect us. Lowers peoples confidence, boys getting quieter, feeling bullied, self confidence can be damaged very easily and shows in exams and in personality, it’s easier to believe negative things than positive things. Albion expressed his hope that he has made a difference to Y7 self confidence. Lethaniel would like to seek advice from Mr Durant on educating Mr Students. Paolo knows a lot about autism spectrum conditions as his mum works with students who have them and he’d like to educate or students about them.

We digressed here and moved onto bullying (particularly of year sevens) by older students.

Bullying from older students

Dion reflects that many of the kids in his year were bullied by older students from Y7 Y8 and Y9. Students lose confidence in the teacher capacity to do something about it when we don’t log things or make students feel like they aren’t important. Could we advise teachers on how to respond?