Bedes Summer School Student Handbook 2024

Bede’s Summer School

Student Handbook

Bullying Bullying is causing emotional or physical harm to other people. Bullying can be: Verbal (Saying or writing mean things) • Calling people names • Playing cruel jokes on people • Threatening people Social (Harming someone’s reputation) • Ignoring people • Embarrassing people in public • Telling other people not to be friends with someone

Your behaviour

Physical (Hurting a person’s body or possessions) • Pushing • Kicking, punching and hitting • Taking or hiding someone’s things

Cyberbullying Involves posting hurtful or threatening messages on social media such as on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. This is also a form of bullying and will not be tolerated at Bede’s.

Mobile phone policy Your access to your mobile phones, tablets, games consoles and laptops is restricted during your stay at Bede’s in order to: • Encourage you to interact face-to-face with other students and staff • Ensure you concentrate in meetings, lessons and all leisure and recreational activities • Minimise safeguarding risks and minimise the

If you or your friends are being bullied by someone, tell us immediately .

If you are bullying other students or treating them badly in any way, this is what will happen: • The Welfare Manager will speak to you immediately and tell you that any form of bullying must stop. You will be told that any recurrence will be treated very seriously. • You will be encouraged to apologise to the student and the Welfare Manager will monitor the situation carefully. • The student who has been bullied will be told that the matter has been dealt with and that bullying will stop with immediate effect. • If bullying continues, you will receive a final warning from the Centre Director and your parents will be informed of the situation. • If there is another incident of bullying, or if there is any suggestion that bullying is continuing, you will be expelled from the centre. If you bully someone, you can be expelled.

risk of cyberbullying and peer-on-peer abuse • Provide an opportunity for you to detox from the digital world during your stay at Bede’s • Allow you to be fully immersed in the Summer School community

To help us achieve our objectives, this table shows when you are allowed to use/have access to your mobile devices:

LESSON BREAKS

LEISURE ACTIVITIES

TRIPS & EXCURSIONS

CENTRE

MEAL TIMES LESSONS

MEETINGS

FREE TIME

OVERNIGHT

Eastbourne

ban

ban

ban

ban

ban

CHECK-CIRCLE

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE

ban

Windlesham

ban

TIMES-CIRCLE

ban

ban

ban

CHECK-CIRCLE

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE

ban

Royal Russell

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

CHECK-CIRCLE

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

Dicker

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

CHECK-CIRCLE

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

Lancing

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

CHECK-CIRCLE

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

Brighton

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

CHECK-CIRCLE

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE

TIMES-CIRCLE

ban \ Students do not have access to their phones. TIMES-CIRCLE \ Students have access to their phones, but may only use them if necessary or when requested to.

EXCLAMATION-CIRCLE \ Students have access to their phones, but may only use them in an emergency. CHECK-CIRCLE \ Students can use their phones.

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