Cool Schools Newsletter Term 3 2010

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Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme

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In this issue ...

Recent Research Findings NEW Youth Wing Section ... BANG, REACT and Jonnie’s Story ...

Peace Week Prize Winners!!!

NEW Parents Programme a great SUCCESS! Announcements and Notices PHOTOS and MORE PHOTOS!!!

Mt Roskill Grammar celebrating Peace Week 2010

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The Cool Schools team at Head Office, Auckland: Christina Barruel, Caroline Ongleo and Toni Ingram

I do apologise for the late arrival of this newsletter! Due to Peace Week and the Auckland Secondary School Symposium all arriving at the end of Term 2, Edition One of our 2010 Cool Schools newsletter has had to take third place.

The good news is that there is LOTS to report as you will find in the contents of these pages! Terms 1 and 2 have been busier than ever for schools. The Peace Foundation has been a hive of activity too with some staff changes giving new energy and dynamics to the team.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Andrew Cowie for his dedicated work given to Cool Schools. Andrew has moved into full time employment and his position as part time Cool Schools trainer for the Canterbury and West Coast regions has been filled by Tracy Scott. Tracy is a fully qualified mediator who is passionate about the process of collaborative communication and problem solving. Most of her studies in conflict resolution have been done in the USA. We are very fortunate to have her as a Cool Schools trainer. She manages to juggle this role around other valuable work she does for Mediation Services based in Christchurch.

I would also like to say a BIG THANK YOU to Rachel Turner. Rachel is now working for Barnados as their Auckland Roots of Empathy Liaison Co-ordinator. She has been a wonderfully supportive member of our team and is sadly missed!

Her part time position has been filled by Toni Ingram. Toni has been working for Family Planning and brings a variety of valuable skills to the team. She is at present co-ordinating the upgrading of our Cool Schools manuals and further development of the Co-ordinator’s Kit for both primary and secondary schools.

Some of the highlights for Cool Schools over the last two terms have been …

Re-designed workshops for basic and advanced secondary training using material from a pilot programme designed by Janine Edge for Law Works in the U.K. These re-designed workshops blend the existing secondary training with some of Janine’s ideas. We have received excellent feedback from students and guidance counsellors. The new booklet “Student Mediation Training Notes” has been well received.

The Bullying Forum – organised by the Mental Health Foundation on Tuesday 13th April, this event gathered organisations such as: The Children’s Commission, Netsafe, Rainbow Youth, and The Peace Foundation, among others, to talk about successful approaches and new strategies to combat bullying. It was well attended and provided The Peace Foundation with media mileage. See the interview with Yvonne Duncan, Christina Barruel and Jonnie Black on our website at www.peace.net.nz TWO NEW parents programmes!!!

ONE: A newly developed parents course on “Communicating Effectively – Skills to Bring Out the Best in You and Your Children” (Modules 1 and 2) was facilitated by Andrea and Mike O’Hagan at the Committee Room in the Kelston Community Centre on the 14-15 April. This programme is based on the internationally recognised work of Dr Richard Bolstad and Margot Hamblett of the Transforming Communication Skills Course and Dr Thomas Gordon’s work in Parent and Teacher Effectiveness Training.

Another course was held at Stanhope Road School during May and June. Two of the Kelston participants – Mal Winnie and Lisa Gibson (both previously trained in the Neuro Linguistic Programme) were facilitator and assistant respectively.

The feedback from participants of both these courses has been very positive. We are delighted with the results! I would like to take this opportunity to thank Andrea O’Hagan and her husband Mike, for the HOURS

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of work involved in developing Modules 1 and 2. It has been very much appreciated!

TWO: A second parents programme has been developed by Andrew Cowie. This is titled “Managing Our Digital World”. It had its debut at The Peace Foundation on Saturday 26th June. Evaluations from participants were also very positive.

The contents of this programme include; understanding the scope of digital communication, learning about tools to prevent cyberbullying, practical skills for maintaining rapport with young people in an increasingly virtual and digitized world and other practical advice, interesting website links, etc.

Youth Law Forum - Jonnie Black from our Youth Wing (an advanced mediator at Mt Roskill Grammar during 2008), presented a talk on “Effective Conflict Resolution Techniques” at the Youth Law Forum: Youth, Justice, and Human Rights in New Zealand during April. The event hosted by the Office of Ethnic Affairs assembled youth to listen to various organisations such as Human Rights, Netsafe, NZ Police, and The Peace Foundation.

AUT film production – Rachel Bigelow (3rd year AUT student) has directed the filming of a 10-minute training DVD for primary school peer mediators. The film has featured a group of 8 mediators from Stanhope Road Primary School. The final result is GREAT and will be very helpful for co-ordinators training student mediators. AUT are happy for us to download the film onto our website. This has been done so check it out on www.peace.net.nz Peace Week 2010 – Monday 21st June – Friday 25th June. (Week 10, Term 2) Theme: Youth Can! Personal to Global. The best yet!!! We had the highest number of participants on record registering with their original and impressive activities. Well done to those schools who received 1st, 2nd or 3rd prizes. May I take this opportunity to thank ALL those schools who made the effort to be involved with Peace Week 2010.

Your photos reflected how much your students enjoyed the activities organised for them.

Cool Schools Secondary Symposium 2010 - An outstanding, inspirational day!!! Ten secondary schools in the Auckland/Northland region participated in the symposium on Friday 25th June. Five schools delivered inspiring presentations on the theme Youth Can! Personal to Global. The line up of guest speakers (including Divya Dhar, who won the 2010 Young New Zealander of the Year for her history of youth activism), were very motivating. Students commented on their symposium evaluation forms that they had gained a real sense of direction on HOW they could be more proactive in initiating positive, effective change.

Yes … it has been a busy two terms for Cool Schools! Lots of exciting things happening! I am looking forward to the end of this month when the national Cool Schools team meet in Wellington for a two-day workshop which focuses on the upgrading of our resources, in particular, the primary and secondary manuals. Thank you to those co-ordinators who have contributed to the new ideas/suggestions for this development.

I conclude by saying farewell to our Head Office premises on Princes Street, Central Auckland. Yes, we are moving to new headquarters at Level 2, Problem Gambling Foundation Building, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Newmarket, Auckland.. It will be hard to vacate such a gracious, historic building in park surrounds.

A BIG THANKS to all those who contributed to this newsletter. Your articles are AWESOME and very much appreciated!!!

Happy mediating … from Christina Barruel (Cool Schools National Trainer)

‘School Safety – an inquiry into the safety of students at school’ Key findings from the inquiry conducted by the Office of the Children’s Commissioner: l l l

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No school is immune to bullying.

Bullying can happen to any student.

Bullying usually happens outside the classroom and away from teachers Being victimised by hurtful teasing, untrue gossip and exclusion from friendship groups were common occurrences for many of the students who participated in the inquiry.

Key concern of parents is the slow response of schools and the perceived inaction of teachers.

Usually bullying is not reported to teachers – and if students disclose to anyone, it is usually to friends.

One reason students choose not to disclose incidents of bullying is because they perceive that the bullying will not be addressed.

Most bullying incidents have witnesses – bullying can only occur if the bystanders allow it to happen by not intervening.

If peers are part of the problem they need to be part of the solution.

What works? l Effective schools understand the importance of involving their students in a whole school approach to eradicate bullying. l Teachers can make a difference – they help shape intentionally and unintentionally, the social interactions of their students. l The only programmes that are effective in addressing the problems of violence and aggression in schools are those that attempt to alter the school environment rather than focusing on the bullies and victims alone. l A whole school approach encourages students, teachers and parents to share responsibility for changing school culture and developing positive school climates that encourage students to care about each other. l An effective approach is underpinned by anti-bullying policies, effective procedures for responding to bullying and violence and preventative programmes integrated into the school curriculum. l Helping young people fully develop their personal and social values and skills is considered by some schools to be as important as participation in violence prevention programmes. l Developing restorative approaches instead of the more punitive and exclusionary response to school discipline develops a more positive whole school culture. l Restoring relationships are an effective response to relational aggression type behaviours.

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Firstly, schools must have effective policies and procedures in place.

The school community should be involved and prevention made a publicly announced priority.

No school should be complacent about bullying because it can happen in any school at any time.

Preventive approaches will help to reduce school bullying and violence, but it will still happen despite schools’ best efforts – and teachers need to know how to deal with it when it does occur.

Effective schools acknowledge this fact and constantly review their school’s environment.

Appropriate intervention requires immediate action and the majority of whole school approaches view professional development of teachers as a prerequisite to building a safe school culture.

School safety: An inquiry into the safety of students at school. Dr Janis Caroll-Lind. Office of the Children’s Commissioner. 2009.

For more information or to read the full report visit http://www. occ.org.nz/publications

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ORATIA SCHOOL (WEST AUCKLAND) A Community Striving for Success and Acting with Integrity Hi, we’re the Oratia School Peer Mediators and we would like to share with you how we have started this year’s Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme.

To start the year, we got some snazzy, new, blue vests and our own individual name tags! Unfortunately, our last Cool Schools Co-ordinator resigned so this year we have two new co-ordinators of our school peer mediators. Every Wednesday we have a meeting with all the 24 mediators and the teacher coordinators. We discuss any tricky problems we have encountered and what we can improve, what we have learned and what we want to share.

This year we have decided to start handing out certificates. What happens is each pair of mediators takes a few certificates and hands them out to children who are showing our school values of Sustainability, Learning, Integrity, Community and Excellence. We will also be doing role-plays in various classes and assemblies so that children know that if they have a problem they need help with, they just need to look for the blue vests.

To help us, we have clipboards and report sheets for problems in the playground that we help mediate. Each pair of mediators are on a roster and have an area of the school that they are on duty, 3 times a week, during morning tea or at lunch time. In Term 4, we are going to start training the Year 5 students to be peer mediators so that when we leave Oratia School, there will be some mediators ready to start in 2011.

The best part of being a mediator is helping people to solve their own problems and working in a team.

Imogen Stone and Loretta Champion (Oratia District School Peer Mediators)

MANGERE CENTRAL SCHOOL (SOUTH AUCKLAND) All Pinked Out and Glad to be a Cool School So far our school peer mediators have been a great help to all the teachers and students in the playground and have understood and implemented the mediation process well where needed.

During Term 2 our mediators have been promoting “PINK SHIRT DAY” an anti bullying day aimed at raising awareness around bullying in schools. Our entire school took part in Pink Shirt Day and have really taken a stand against bullying. The Mental Health Foundation NZ promoted this day and as a Cool School we are getting behind the cause.

Our mediators are passionate about what they do and prepared skits based on the mediation process for a school wide Road Show which took place last term.

Mediation has really affected our school in a positive way and the difference it has made is significant. We are really proud of our mediators here, and are very lucky to have such a supportive school!

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Here is what some of our awesome mediators had to say on the topic: “Mediation is important to us at M.C.S because we get to help with problem solving.” (Sasareva Brown, Yr 8) “Mediation means a lot to me because I care about others.”(Monica Lakopo, Yr 7) “I believe mediation is important because there are more students than teachers in the playground and it is important for us to be there to support. Being a mediator means a lot to me because I get to be a role model in the school to other students.” (Pamata Toleafoa, Yr 8) “I feel that being a mediator is a privilege. It helps me be more mature and sensible. It also gives me confidence to help out where there are problems in our classroom or the school.” (Daniel Solomona Yr8) Renski Christians Cool Schools Mediation Coordinator Mangere Central School

SUNNYNOOK PRIMARY SCHOOL (NORTH AUCKLAND) North Auckland Cool Schools Network Meeting – Friday 28 May 2010 Sunnynook Primary School’s Peer Mediators’ Report Sunnynook Primary School’s mediators work long and hard, week after week to help out teachers when students have problems.

On Friday 28th May we meet in Room 20, as Sunnynook School was hosting the North Auckland Cool Schools Network Meeting and we were doing a presentation.

Nine mediators were chosen to do the presentation for Peer mediators “in action” demonstrating how the mediation process works at their school Christina Barruel (Cool Schools National Trainer) and other teachers from North Shore schools. We felt honoured.

We gathered in the hall after having had our meetings with all of the mediators to practise our role-play, and answer a few questions Christina had set for us for the presentation. We introduced ourselves to the visiting teachers, and started the presentation. Our presentation was a role play, which we presented mainly in pairs. We based our role play on a scenario where two students had a dispute over picking miniball teams. After we did the role-play to introduce the mediation process, we went through the process step-by-step to share how we follow a typical mediation at our school. We also presented many things, such as the challenges we face and why we chose to be a mediator.

2. What support we receive in our roles as mediators: l Trained supervisors are rostered for each team on duty to assist new mediators. l At the completion of mediation, the mediators and the supervisors reflect on what went well and what they could improve for the next time. l Fortnightly meetings and role plays at out training sessions with Mr Wilson and Mrs Naran.

3. Some of the challenges we face: l The bell rings when the mediation process is incomplete, although we can spend about five minutes to complete the process most times. l Finding it hard not to provide solutions for each of the parties. l Controlling our own emotions when people are annoying.

For some of the mediators, the presentation was nerve wracking.

Although some of us were nervous in the beginning, we became more confident. We enjoyed doing the role play because we got to relax and have fun. We also got to know a lot about what other Cool Schools do by talking to other teachers. We really enjoyed hosting the North Auckland Network Meeting because it gave us an opportunity to promote the successful mediation programme at our school.

By Aiyana Minkova, Jasmine Suppaya, Dylan Hamilton, and Megan Palmer (Year 6 students)

These are some of the things we included in our presentation: 1. Why we chose to be mediators at Sunnynook School: l Supporting teachers on duty. l Helping to assist students to have a positive schooling experience. l Enjoying seeing people happy, not sad. l Having mediation skills to help us in later life.

Peer Mediators with their Certificates of Achievement presented by Christina Barruel (National Trainer) at the North Auckland Cool Schools Network Meeting.

“What could you do differently next time so you don’t have this problem happening again?”

Mediators present some of the challenges they face in their role at Sunnynook Primary School

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DARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL (CANTERBURY) Last year we began implementing the Cool Schools Peer Mediation programme at Darfield High School. We had 21 mediators in the beginning and are currently expanding this by training new mediators in the junior and senior school. The current mediators are helping to train the new mediators, passing on their mediation skills.

During Terms One and Two we, as senior mediators in our school, have been focusing on teaching Years 7 and 8 students about conflict … identifying conflict and ways of dealing with conflict constructively. We will soon also be working with the Year 9’s at our school on this. We teach the students some basic skills to help them deal with conflict in their own lives. We have taught them

about the conflict styles in youth and related these back to everyday situations when they may have used them.

Overall, we have thoroughly enjoyed and continue to enjoy teaching and working with our peers and younger students in the school. It is great to see the younger students knowing how to deal with their conflicts and helping others to solve them. It is awesome to see this helping reduce the amount of bullying in our school, and we hope it will continue successfully into the future.

by Greer Oliver, Jaymin Williams and Thomas Falconer.

MEDIATION POEM by Mohammad Aiyub (Year 8 Mediator from Mangere Central School) My love for mediation is so great, I remember the rules all the way “Agree to solve the problem” is what I say “No interrupting” is what I do.

Be as honest as you can that’s my policy No put downs is my honesty.

Mohammad reading the poem at the South Auckland Cool Schools Network Meeting on the 11.6.10

Mediating is about helping others, Preventing bullying is one of the others.

Making the school a safe place is my task.

Assisting teachers is a great ask.

Looking after others is a great laugh, Kindness and respect is my other half.

Children who are naughty are in big trouble, Getting out of the hustle is a good lesson.

“Caught being good” is a great line but………

Ending up in the office is a bad sign.

Remember mediators are to respect And not to play around like pets!

Year 8 Mediator from Mangere Central School, South Auckland

PROFILE: TONI INGRAM Cool Schools Resource Development Co-ordinator Toni has recently joined the Cool Schools team and will be focussing on resource development. Toni is an experienced teacher having taught both here in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In recent years, she has specialised in the area of health education and worked with students, parents and teachers in both the primary and secondary sectors. Toni also brings a range of experience in conducting research and developing resources for both teachers and young people.

While working part-time for The Peace Foundation, Toni is also currently completing a Masters of Education degree. Toni is passionate about issues surrounding the health and wellbeing of young people and is particularly interested in programmes and resources that

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aim to empower young people and enhance their self-confidence.

Toni will be coordinating the redevelopment of our Cool School Training Manuals and Co-ordinator Kits (both Primary and Secondary). We are very excited to be updating these essential resources and would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how these resources can better suit your needs.

Toni will be getting in touch with Cool School coordinators to invite them to share their thoughts or you can also contact her directly: Phone (09) 373 2379 or email toni@peacefoundation.org. nz.

Toni working hard behind her office desk ... always smiling!

Congratulations to the Schools Peace Week 2010 Winners!!!

“YoUth Can! From Personal to Global” was the theme of this year’s Schools Peace Week held 21-25 June 2010. About 2500 students across the country from primary and secondary schools built awareness and acted on the theme with various peace and disarmament activities.

The 10th Schools Peace Week sustains the Peace Foundation’s contribution to the UN Decade for Peace and Non-Violence for Children. Peace education is about helping students understand and manage conflict in their own lives and in their community. It also helps to foster peace in the world at large through educating students about local, national and international peace issues. This year’s winners are truly deserving of recognition for their excellence in peace education not only during Schools Peace Week but also beyond.

The Schools’ Peace Week also inspired the participation of the Africa Youth Ministries with their Peace Cup tournament to mobilize communities towards reconciliation and forgiveness, tolerance, non-violence targeting war affected children and youth as primary beneficiaries. The tournament that will take place from 20 July- 21 September will pool about 6500 students participating from the 6 districts formerly affected by the 21 years of brutal civil armed conflict between LRA rebels and the Government of Uganda. We wish the Africa Youth Ministries a successful Peace Cup! The raffle draw of the Peace Week cash prize of $250 went to Mt Roskill Grammar School (MRGS). The cash prize will serve as seed money towards a video production (interview) of past and present MRGS peer mediators on the impact of the Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme in their lives.

Primary School Division

1st prize $150 PF resources - Mangere Central School Week-long activities: peace art competition, wear all the white you can day, mediator’s giving back day, face painting, sporty sports.

2nd prize $100 PF resources - Kapanui School Especially made peace ribbons sold to students, assembly presentation about peace week.

3rd Prize $50 PF resources - Coatesville School Sadako and paper cranes – story telling school wide and peer mediators teaching children how to make paper cranes.

Secondary School Division

1st prize $150 PF resources - Marist College Week-long activities: Musical/play production public showing of “Lest we Forget” – ideas of war, peace and memory explored through curriculum drama and dance and integrated with co-curricula music with 320 active participants and Years 5 and 6 joining the performance, peace banners, 2000 cans, Kit and Maynie – Tea, Scones and Nuclear Disarmament film showing.

2nd prize $100 PF resources - Mt Roskill Grammar School Week-long activities: Assembly presentation, wearing of white ribbons, peace poster competition, daily peace quotes, peace banner, peace t-shirts, white balloons in form of peace sign, face painting, music video on “We are the World,” peace rap.

3rd prize $50 PF resources - Baradene College Week-long activities: Peace week assembly with the presentation of “REACT”, free hugs day, intermediate school colouring competition, homeroom with best idea on peace week beyond peace week, open circles day, MUFTI day with theme “Hippie”, food and hot drinks stall, peace music playing, peace banner to sign, face painting of love and peace symbols, sale of peace bands, smile day, prospect day – school encouraged to mix up all the weeks themes and make it the BEST day.

JONNIE BLACK’S STORY ... From Bully to Peacemaker

Jonnie Black pictured at the Mental Health Bullying Forum, April 2010

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THE 2010 COOL SCHOOLS SECONDARY SYMPOSIUM ...

A Student’s Perspective ...

The team from Baradene College who attended the Symposium

The 2010 Secondary Symposium was a fantastic experience that allowed peer mediators, from schools within the wider Auckland region, to meet and discuss the impact that the youth of today can have on the world of tomorrow.

Along with presentations from the school groups, there were several inspirational and thoughtprovoking guest speakers. The message I gathered from these speakers was that all the influential people in the world began as we are, youth who aren’t satisfied with the injustices in our world.

However, these people have become who they are today because of the choices they have made. Every day we are faced with opportunities and decisions, and it is how we make these choices that determines not only our future but that of the world. Many of us look at our leaders and think they’re different, theyre not like us. What I have gained from this symposium is that I now realise ...everyone has to begin somewhere, prominent figures such as Ghandi, Obama, and Mother Teresa, they too were young, just like us.

by Greer Janssen, Year 13 student from Baradene College Baradene College’s Peace Week Banner (made by the school peer mediators)

MT ROSKILL GRAMMAR (SOUTH AUCKLAND) The 2010 Cool Schools Secondary Symposium - Students’ Perspective ...

The Secondary Symposium, held appropriately on the last day of National Peace Week 2010, at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall, was a chance for mediators from schools across Auckland and Northland to come together and discuss and listen to some amazing speakers.

The day kicked off with Angela Culpin from the Mental Health Foundation of NZ. She addressed the ways we can help to stop bullying in our schools and presented a powerpoint showing “The 5 Winning Ways to Wellbeing”.

The second speaker of the day was Andrew Cowie, a school teacher, who blew us away with the impact of digital technology on our interactions with others. He especially caught our attention with a video he found that tested our awareness by having a moon walking bear (that no one saw) in the middle of a basketball passing scene. A fascinating discovery!

A wonderful morning tea was then served (jam, cream and warm date scones!!!). This break gave us an opportunity to mingle with students from other schools, as we talked, laughed and danced together. The keynote speaker was Divya Dhar. She is a second year doctor and president of the P3 Foundation, with a passion for social justice and climate change, Ashreya Duvvuru (centre) enjoying shown by her 2010 Young New Zeapizza for lunch with two friends from lander of the Year award. Her talk was Mt Roskill Grammar. mind blowing, and kept us enthralled

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with the tales of her adventures around the world. She was utterly inspiring to listen to, and made us realize the potential of young people. The speaker after that was Senior Constable Alfred Filipaina from Counties Manukau Police Department. His talk about Youth Gangs was hard hitting and it got to all of us. His stories about his interactions The Mt Roskill Grammar peer mediator team who attended the symposium with gang culture were assertive, with their Peace Week banner. and his message about “being there for your friends and family” stuck to us all.

Having patiently waited, the final speaker, Wilson Chau, a 5th year Law Student at Auckland University and actively involved with peace education, did not disappoint. His presentation blew us away, as he discussed the effects of war both direct and indirect. He went on to talk about how the involvement of youth can make a difference in the world.

Between all these speakers were presentations from five of the ten schools present. The presentations were diverse, like the students, and offered an insight about the peer mediation programme and Peace Week 2010 in other schools. Two very musical presentations, from Waiheke High (who did a catchy acoustic song) and Mount Roskill Grammar (who did a remake of the smash hit “We Are The World”), were wonderfully received.

By Ajay Ravindran and Ashreya Duvvuru (Year 13 students)

THE 2010 AUCKLAND/NORTHLAND COOL SCHOOLS SECONDARY SYMPOSIUM On Friday 25th June, 2010 the 6th Secondary Symposium was held in the Western Springs Garden Community Hall from 8.45a.m to 2.30p.m. Our theme this year was YOUTH CAN! PERSONAL TO GLOBAL. The guest speakers included: (1)Divya Dhar (Inaugural 2010 Young New Zealander of the Year), our keynote speaker who inspired her audience with the topic: “Being Agents of Change”, (2) Angela Culpin (Mental Health Foundation of N.Z.) who spoke on the topic of “Bullying” and “The 5 Winning Ways to Wellbeing”,(3) Andrew Cowie (Primary/Secondary Teacher) who introduced us to “Making Tracks in the Digital Dossier”,(4) Alfred Filipaina (Senior Constable and Pacific Liaison Officer at Counties Manukau Police Department) with this riveting speech on “Youth Gangs – What You Can Do To Help!” and (5) Wilson Chau (5th Year Law Student at Auckland University, Youth Wing member and a passionate activist for Nuclear Disarmament) who summed up the days events appropriately with his presentation on unlocking the potential to become planet shakers The Waiheke High School team practising their original song item “IT STARTS WITH YOU!”

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Five out of the ten schools who participated did presentations relating to the symposium theme and also describing their school activities during the previous four days of Peace Week. The highlights were; the original song sung by the team of students from Waiheke High titled “Think Twice, Be Nice!” and the amazing remake of the smash hit “We Are the World” sung

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Brilliant young, inspirational speakers: Divya Dhar and Wilson Chau Alfred’s speech on Youth Gangs – very powerful , informative and thought-provoking. Went down well with Maori/Pacifica students.

The food was plentiful and delicious! Warm scones with jam and whipped cream, were a real treat! The Hell pizzas were yummy too!

Great venue – very suitable for mixing and mingling during breaks. Great parking space outside. Easy to reach being just

off the motorway “The symposium was amazing! I came out of that building so inspired and motivated to make a change. I want to tell everybody about what I’ve heard today. If one person can make a difference with one small step then lots of other people making small steps will really help towards a better world in the future.”

“My eyes were really opened today about how you can grab opportunities to be the change you want to make.”

“I came out of the symposium so intensely motivated and now know exactly what I want to achieve in my life!”

“The symposium was a brilliant opportunity to meet other students from schools and to talk with the guest speakers. I felt a great sense of belonging to and connecting with others for the common purpose of PEACE.”

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Important to do a proper closure/finale. Time schedule needs to be kept to religiously throughout the day so that this happens!

Bring back the group discussion time after lunch with peer mediators from other schools mixing up to discuss challenges of the role and how to meet these challenges.

Each school needs to be given a duty to help with the organisation of the day. Duties could include; seating arrangement, registration desk, assistance with food, banner assembly, clean-up, etc In outreach emails to co-ordinators and again as schools arrive at the start of the symposium, ask students/guest speakers to provide digital files for their presentations. These must be collected and tested on the computer being used at the symposium BEFORE 8.30a.m. on the day! This will help maintain a record of what was presented as well as helping the programme to run smoothly without “technical hitches”.

Ask all schools and guest speakers for copies of their presentations including copies of the photos, songs, videos, handouts associated with them so that these become part of the edited footage.

No more than 3 guest speakers and they MUST stick to their time limit.

Hire two wireless microphones and speakers so that speeches are clearly heard.

Book the venue ASAP for next year’s symposium.

Buy a tripod which will make filming of the symposium presentations a lot easier than when the camera is hand-held.

Students requested that a hot drink be available for them as well as the adults.

Symposium evaluations need to be done at the venue BEFORE schools leave. Difficult to get them back otherwise. A “busstop, post-it” style of evaluation could be considered to save time.

Report by Christina Barruel

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BANG AOTEAROA - A recently launched initiative ...

BANG (Ban All Nukes Generation) Aotearoa is a recently launched initiative of the Youth Wing of The Peace Foundation, connected to an international network of youth working towards a nuclear weapons free world. BANG Aotearoa encourages young people to learn about and get involved in the nuclear abolition movement. Since it began in April, BANG has organized a youth debate in parliament as well as collected signatures on a nationwide appeal to Prime Minister John Key. To get involved, visit our website: www.bang.org.nz or email info@bang.org.nz

By Anna Skinner, (The Peace Foundation’s Youth Programmes’ Coordinator)

BANG DESCRIPTION ...

Ban All Nukes Generation Aotearoa: BANG! (or: Ban all nuclear weapons. Do it in this generation. (or: BANG! …and, the Nuclear Weapons are Gone! (or: Let’s abolish nuclear weapons with a BANG!

Generating a REACTion in Schools I founded REACT, which stands for Responding to Armed Conflict, with the intention of revolutionising peace education and empowering young New Zealanders to become peacebuilders in their communities.

It is about enabling students to react against war and become agents for positive change.

REACT transcends traditional classroom-based methods of peace education.

It is designed to appeal to all secondary school students, regardless of their backgrounds or interests. The project’s objective is two-fold. On the one hand, REACT is an awareness raising exercise, educating young people about various aspects of international armed conflict using bite-sized facts and figures, while omitting the boring details or overly complicated politics involved. On the other hand, it is an empowering experience enabling New Zealand youth to take steps towards literally responding to international armed conflict. In order to achieve these objectives, REACT has been crafted into an interactive experience for its audience. The project compresses an oral commentary and a captivating visual slide show into a 20 minute-long presentation.

The point of REACT is not to ask young individuals to aspire to be or do the extraordinary. It is informing youth that they can make an extraordinary im-

pact on their world by taking advantage of the unique skills and talents they already possess. We only have to look back to the eighties to remind ourselves that it was ordinary New Zealanders who led the march against nuclear weapons testing in the South Pacific.

New Zealand youth certainly have the power to support the vision for a peaceful world, but only if they are confident in doing so. I hope REACT can generate some of that confidence.

Finally, the project’s momentum depends on demand from schools. REACT can come to a school near you. Please contact Wilson at react.to.war@gmail.com to arrange a presentation at your school today!

Wilson Chau 2010

by Wilson Chau (5th Year Law Student at Auckland Universtiy and Youth Wing member)

ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!! ATTENTION!!!

Notices ... Please place these dates in your diary NOW!!! ... UP COMING EVENTS ...

PEACE WEEK 2011

Monday 8th August – Friday 12th August (Week 2, Term 3, 2011)

2011 AUCKLAND SECONDARY SCHOOLS SYMPOSIUM Friday 19th August (Week 3, Term 3, 2011) Venue: Western Springs Garden Community Hall

AUCKLAND PRIMARY TEACHERS COOL SCHOOLS TRAINING WORKSHOP

When: Friday 17th September, 2010 Where: Boardroom, Level 2, Problem Gambling Foundation Building, 128 Khyber Pass Road, Newmarket, Auckland.

Car parking available at Wilson Parking, Arawa Street (off Khyber Pass Rd). This is not free parking.

Cost: $150 per person which includes; training, essential resources, handouts, morning tea and lunch Who should attend: New staff members of schools currently implementing the programme, co-ordinators who have not had previous training, teachers and co-ordinators who need a refresher course, school management interested in implementing the programme

COOL SCHOOLS NETWORK MEETINGS 2010/2011 (Dates and venues to be confirmed) Hamilton - Northland - Taranaki

PEER MEDIATORS’ BIG DAY OUT … Term 4 …

Papakura/Franklin regions (date and venue to be confirmed)

COOL SCHOOLS NEWSLETTERS 2010 and 2011 *** Due dates for article contributions ***

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Edition 2, 2010: Friday 12th November (Week 5, Term 4, 2010) Edition 1, 2011: Friday 27th May (Week 4, Term 2, 2011)

ANNOUNCEMENTS INTERNATIONAL

DAY OF PEACE Join millions of people around the world celebrating and promoting peaceful relations at home, school, work, in the community and internationally.

Celebrate by: · Lighting a candle for peace · Writing a letter about peace in your newspaper · Visiting local peace sites · Joining a peace organisation · Being kind to a friend, family member or stranger · Planting a tree for peace · Asking school to teach conflict resolution and peace studies (as part of the curriculum) · Reading stories about successful peacemakers · Smiling to everyone you meet · Asking your mayor to declare your city as a Peace City · Being creative and thinking of your own action for peace For more ideas, activities and events see: www.internationaldayofpeace.org www.enact.org.nz wwww.peace.net.nz www.peaceoneday.org

The International Day of Peace Fundraiser, 21 September 2010 is postponed for next year. The Peace Foundation and the World Youth Peace Foundation are thankful to schools who have expressed interest on the event. We encourage everyone to celebrate the International Day of Peace with ideas and free resources on peace education available at the Peace One Day: www.peaceoneday.org

FREE Peace One Day Global Education Resource! the

The Peace One Day is promoting peace and Peace Day, 21 Septem- Peace One Day U.S.A. ber and is pleased to announce its FREE Peace One Day Global Education Educa tion Resou rce Resource. The resource uses lessons with reflective individual and group activities, critical thinking and modern technology. Through such experiences students will have opportunities to gain an awareness of Peace Day and what it stands for, as well the sense that they too, as global citizens, have an active role to play. Please visit www.peaceoneday.org/en/education and www.peaceoneday.org/en/education where, after completing the short registration process, you will be able to access the Global Resource in all six language editions. Take action on peace!

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Become a Peaceful Schools International Member

If you are an educational institution interested in creating a safer and more peaceful environment for your students and staff, membership in Peaceful Schools International can help you! PSI regular members include many different types of educational institutions, from early childhood education right through to university. For more information, please visit www.peacefulschoolsinternational.org

TWO NEW RESOURCES NOW AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS ON THE PEACE FOUNDATION WEBSITE www.peace.net.nz

1. A training DVD for primary peer mediators ...

“Take a Look at a Cool School”

2. Flanshaw Road School’s SASA to help students remember the key steps in The Mediation Process

Take a Look at a Cool School is the product of a budding, young film director, Rachael Bigelow, a 3rd year student at AUT studying a Bachelor of Communication, majoring in television.

Rachael’s decision to support The Peace Foundation with her documentary film project on Cool Schools, has resulted in a great resource for primary schools implementing the programme.

The 10 minute film features a small team of eight Year 7 and 8 peer mediators from Stanhope Road School in South Auckland.

Elijah and Sharon, the head mediators, guide us through the steps of training to be a mediator at their school and what this involves.

This DVD is highly recommended as a training resource for primary Cool Schools Co-ordinators who are training student peer mediators. It is also a valuable resource to show teachers so that they are reminded about the role of a mediator.

The Peace Foundation would like to acknowledge the staff and pupils of FLANSHAW ROAD SCHOOL, West Auckland, for their valuable contribution to the COOL SCHOOLS PEER MEDIATION PROGRAMME in creating and providing this video clip of their unique and original SASA for viewing on our website. Many thanks to the Flanshaw Road Cool Schools Co-ordinator, Mandy Martin, who created the SASA to represent the key steps in the mediation process. A fantastic idea for other Cool Schools Co-ordinators to view. Well done. Your effort has been appreciated!

Scott Woodmass (Cool Schools Co-ordinator), Rachael Bigelow (centre), Elijah Forsyth (peer mediator seated) and other AUT students who were part of the film crew.

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COOL SCHOOLS AROUND NEW ZEALAND!

COOL SCHOOLS TRAINERS

• It is such a positive programme so many levels – personal development, helping others, helping the school to be safe, helping families, helping communities, helping career choices. Thank you The Peace Foundation!!! – Mt Roskill Grammar School • This is a programme we would want to continue not just for reduction in conflict but also for personal growth and empowerment the peer mediators gain from the programme. - Owairaka School • The mediators gain confidence in themselves and realize that they can help others. They enjoy receiving “warm fuzzies” because they are proactive in helping resolve others’ conflict. - Mahurangi College • Great basic training for the student peer mediators. Heaps of skills developed. - Whangaparoa College • A great programme which we feel is working well! – Coatesville School • Wonderful life skills are learnt. Valuable to all ages. - Lincoln Heights School • A wonderful programme. More support in how to include parents will be appreciated. - Auckland Normal Intermediate School • Supervisor Mediators do a lot of the administration work involved with the peer mediation programme at our school. They are a small team of 5-6 senior mediators who assist the teacher co-ordinator with organisational tasks. Sunnynook Primary School

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Christina Barruel CS National Trainer (Pri/Sec)

Auckland, Northland, Waikato, Coromandel, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay

09 373 2379 027 272 9331

09 379 2668

christina@peacefoundation.org.nz

Andrea O’Hagan (Pri/Sec/PP)

Bay of Plenty, Central Plateau, East Cape, Wairoa, Gisborne, Rotorua

07 307 9085

mikeneye@xtra.co.nz

Lynn Scott (Pri/Sec/PP)

Wellington, Wairarapa Wanganui, Nelson, Whanganui and Manawatu

04 384 6613 027 542 3664

lynn-scott@xtra.co.nz

Carolyne Smith (Pri/PP)

Otago, Southland

03 454 6966

carosmith@paradise.net.nz

Tracy Scott (Pri/Sec)

Canterbury, Christchurch, West Coast, Marlborough, North Otago

03 384 3336 027 272 9335

tmagscott@gmail.com

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Peace Week Banner made by the peer mediators at Baradene College, Auckland.