Brighton Beach police host bullying roadshow
Bullying is very difficult for children, or anyone, to deal with and Brighton Beach SAPS are making it their mission to address this social issue.
Brighton Beach Corporate Communications launched its ‘Captain Lollipop, Be a Buddy. Not a Bully’ road show recently, as one of the components of the back to school safety 2019 initiative within the Brighton Beach policing area.
With homemade teaching aids, a t-shirt designed for bullying prevention campaigns and a brochure researched and developed by Brighton Beach SAPS’ Captain Louise Le Roux, she armed herself to condition learners in the foundation phase of local educational institutes on aspects of school bullying.
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Learners were taught that behaviour such as swearing, lying, punching, slapping, pulling, kicking, biting and teasing etc. constitutes as bullying.
A portion of the presentation concentrated on stealing, which includes; stealing other children’s stationery, their monies (tuck shop/taxi monies), their lunch and school books, and stealing toys from the school. The copying of other children’s work was also classified as stealing.
Learners were also encouraged to be honest when they had bullied a friend in any form, and the presentation allowed for children to be conditioned on how to show respect towards their educations, with an emphasis being placed on the words; ”thank you,’ “please” and “I am sorry”.
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Capt. Le Roux used cartoon characters to add fun to the learning experience, and during the feedback session learners were rewarded with goodies.
Since the inception of the road show a total of 16 educational institutes were visited, with 18 presentations being held. A total of 3 062 learners and 117 educators were in attendance and a total of 3 179 school bulling information guides were distributed to parents, guardians and caregivers with the assistance of educational institutes who places such in the homework books of learners. The programme is expected to be concluded towards the end of February 2019.
SAPS, Brighton Beach management acknowledges Capt. Le Roux as the project manager, for initiating, creating and presenting the programme. “We thank the governing bodies, principals and staff for affording SAPS Brighton Beach a platform to facilitate this vital subject matter of school bullying prevention to learners within our policing area,” concluded Le Roux.
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