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The Aurora
School Bullying
Project
In
2005 Aurora considered tackling the bullying of LGBT pupils in our schools.
Awards for All seemed most likely to fund such a project, but it would
only fund work that was new.
Sue Sanders' agency
Chrysalis had specialised in this work in Croydon before. She managed
to come up with a new approach, that addressed the bullying of all students,
and was based on the requirements that recent government legislation
had placed on schools.
Aurora applied for funds to get the project into some four schools over 2007-08, affecting just over 3000 students. We did rather better than this with presentations to staff from several other schools and running the full project in schools affecting over 4000 pupils.
Press Release
from the end of year one of the project, published on 27th July 2008
Teachers' assessments
The project presented worshops to staff in schools in 2007-8. What did the staff think of the workshops?
The case for funding this project
The case to fund this project was made in a grant application to Awards for All.
The supporting documents listed under the School Bullying Project Application.
They quote instances of local school bullying and instances of the bullying of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pupils. They give grounds for asserting national and local concern over the issue, and local opinion in support of the project.
Sue Sanders and Chrysalis
Background information on Chrysalis, the agency that Aurora had asked to deliver the project, and on Sue Sanders, the consultant who developed the project, promoted it to schools, adapted the project to each school and presented the workshops to school staff.
