When we talk and write about safety in schools, the situation is very serious and quite discouraging. The reasons for this are varied and numerous. However, it seems that the most adverse impact on young people comes from the bad examples they are exposed to on online platforms, social networks and video games, as well as from influences from all other media, which are not controlled to the extent necessary. This main and globally present problem becomes even greater, because parents, often, do not have enough free time to adequately engage with their children and thus reduce the space for these negative influences. And finally, the increase in violence is also due to the inertia and insufficient motivation of our education system to solve the new problems substantially and from the beginning.
Our approach to the problem of violence is systematic, comprehensive and based on prevention. The steps that we, on behalf of the Mihajlo Pupin Private Primary School, will take in order to prevent violence are as follows:
- The work of our teachers and staff will be appreciated. In this way, they are motivated to implement the anticipated prevention measures.
- A psychologist, a pedagogue, and a special education teacher will work in our school, so that there are more opportunities to talk to all children, not just those who have a visible problem with discipline or learning.
- We will strive to ensure that the cooperation between the heads of the department and the psychological and pedagogical service is constant and constructive.
- All teachers and professional associates will have additional, continuing psychological education.
- Our expert associate Milica Stojiljković will deal exclusively with counseling and education of parents.
- All teachers and teachers, especially the teachers, will be able to get to know each other in time.
students, and then carefully monitor every slightest change in the students. They must be able to distinguish between peer disagreement and the beginning of peer violence, but they must also have the courage to call the recognized violence by its proper name. - Two separate locations, where classes will take place from the first to the fourth grade and from the fifth to the eighth, will largely eliminate the possibility of peer violence, which is otherwise more often present in one-shift teaching.
- The use of mobile phones will be prohibited in our school, as well as access to social networks and platforms. We will strictly control all visual content to which children are exposed.
- From the very beginning, we will teach children what information and communication technologies are for and how to use them.
- The entire curriculum, all regular and extracurricular activities, with their content and method of implementation, will be subordinated to the idea that all students find it interesting, that they love school and learning, and in this way, by spontaneously forming the right system of values, they are far from all forms of problematic behavior.
- Extracurricular activities such as drama, etiquette and time planning will play a major role in the psychological and social growth of students. Five hours of drama, a week, will create a space to act out, or more precisely, to experience every bad feeling, every internal or omnipresent problem and conflict. And in the process, children are free from what is bothering them.
- By cultivating our traditions and true moral values by telling the story of shining examples from our history, culture, and science, we also keep our students away from potential sources of violence.
Mistakes occur at the beginning and are difficult to correct afterwards. We will prevent, shift focus, change the system, be brave and responsible. We will be full of love and joy, but also very consistent in all the demands we place on our students, and in fact the strictest in the demands we place on ourselves. Our school will be a circle of knowledge in which we will all learn, children, parents, and educators.
We will celebrate knowledge and togetherness!
