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BULLYING INFORMATION
In health classes we are talking about stranger awareness and
your child's safety. I use several resources for this unit. One
is a video by John Walsh of America's Most Wanted, Stranger Safety.
Stranger Safety teaches students to become Smart, Cool and Safe
in a fun video which deals with Don't Knows, Kinda Knows and
Safe Side Adults. I also use the video series featuring
the Yello-Dyno which deals with Tricky People and their traps,
information on this program can be found on their website
www.yello-dyno.com.
Please take the time to reinforce this information with your
students. The elementary students will also be using a coloring
book from Kidpower (www.kidpower.org)
which teaches using The Kidpower method which includes many
simple People Safety skills young people can use to increase
their wellbeing everywhere they go: Our first graders will
present a program from Kidpower at our annual Christmas program.
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Acting aware, calm, and confident;
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Setting firm respectful boundaries with peers and
others they know;
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Knowing how to walk away from trouble;
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Knowing how to get help when they need it;
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Speaking up for themselves and others;
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Staying in charge of their words and their bodies;
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Knowing the difference between being passive,
aggressive, and assertive in their body language, tone of voice,
and choice of words;
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Protecting themselves emotionally when others are
thoughtless, unkind, or even cruel (or when they say hurtful
things to themselves); and
We are starting out in health in the elementary level
with Character Counts, a character education program centered on
universal values called the Six Pillars of Character:
trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and
citizenship. To help us work together in strengthening the
character of our students we want you to be aware of the values
we will be encouraging and learning about as we use Character
Counts. If you would like to know more about this program and
reinforce the values at home go to their webpage
www.CharacterCounts.org. We will end the unit on October 30th,
with a special program, Character-magic.
Character magic is the exciting assembly program that captures
your students and takes them on a journey of fun and discovery.
Loaded with both entertaining and meaningful experiences, Character Magic uses
magical effects, music, humor, and audience participation to
teach your students powerful lessons on repesct, honesty,
responsibility, and other core classroom values. More
information on this program can be found on their website.
http://www.charactermagic.org/.
The middle school is
starting out this year with a new bullying program Stop bullying
now, take a stand, lend an hand, please check out this site at
www.stopbullyingnow.org. We will also continue with the
Thomas Brown bully prevention series, and several other sites
that discuss what bullying is, how to handle being bullied, are
you a bully, and what to do it you see someone being bullied. If
you have any questions please email me at
pejoy@comcast.net. We will also
have No Name Calling Week (http://www.nonamecallingweek.org/cgi-bin/iowa/home.html)
Jan. 25-29 2010. Mrs. Cathell will have an art project
aimed at stopping name-calling and verbal bullying in schools.
The Creative Expression Contest is an opportunity for
students to submit essays, poetry, music, original artwork, or
other pieces that convey their experiences and feelings about
name-calling, and their ideas for putting a stop to verbal
bullying in their schools and communities.
We have been working very hard at St.
Francis to make every child feel welcome and safe at our school.
Parental involvement, as our mission statement states is vital
to our school community for our security and success. We ask you
to participate in our survey to help us identify our strengths
and any areas of improvement that we may need to address. Thank
you as always for your support of St. Francis of Assisi School.
Please print out the parent survey and
return to the school by Friday October 2, 2009
Parent's C.A.R.E. Survey
Parent's
Bullying Information
MEDIATION PROGRAM
St. Francis will start our new year off
with peer mediation. Peer mediation is a process of resolving
disputes and conflicts with the help of student mediators who
facilitates the problem. Student mediation allows the student to
talk over their difference with student mediators in order to
cooperatively work out their differences. Mediation is
non-judgmental. The goal is not to determine guilt or innocence,
but rather to work out differences constructively. Our school
safety patrols will be our student mediators. Peer mediation can
be used for conflicts such as kids arguing, pushing,
name-calling, and bullying. Mediation allows our students to
talk over their problems in a neutral setting and work together
to find their own solutions, which results in less student anger
and frustration. Students may ask for mediation themselves or be
recommended for mediation by a faculty member, all mediations
will be done with the students confidentiality being a main
priority.
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Heart Attack Warning Signs
Some heart attacks are sudden and intense -- the "movie heart
attack," where no one doubts what's happening. But most heart
attacks start slowly, with mild pain or discomfort. Often people
affected aren't sure what's wrong and wait too long before
getting help. Here are signs that can mean a heart attack is
happening:
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Chest
discomfort. Most
heart attacks involve discomfort in the center of the chest
that lasts more than a few minutes, or that goes away and
comes back. It can feel like uncomfortable pressure,
squeezing, fullness or pain.
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Discomfort
in other areas of the upper body. Symptoms
can include pain or discomfort in one or both arms, the
back, neck, jaw or stomach.
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Shortness of
breath. May
occur with or without chest discomfort.
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Other signs: These
may include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea or
lightheadedness
If you or
someone you're with has chest discomfort, especially with one or
more of the other signs, don't wait longer than a few minutes
(no more than 5) before calling for help. Call 9-1-1... Get to a
hospital right away.
Calling 9-1-1 is
almost always the fastest way to get lifesaving treatment.
Emergency medical services staff can begin treatment when they
arrive -- up to an hour sooner than if someone gets to the
hospital by car. The staff are also trained to revive someone
whose heart has stopped. Patients with chest pain who arrive by
ambulance usually receive faster treatment at the hospital, too.
If you can't
access the emergency medical services (EMS), have someone drive
you to the hospital right away. If you're the one having
symptoms, don't drive yourself, unless you have absolutely no
other option.
For more
information go to
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/actintime/index.htm,
http://www.americanheart.org., and
GO RED for HEART DISEASE!
These are
the warning signs listed on the American Stroke Association web
page.
Stroke is a
medical emergency. Know these warning signs of stroke and teach
them to others. Every second counts:
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Sudden
numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on
one side of the body
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Sudden
confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
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Sudden
trouble seeing in one or both eyes
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Sudden
trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
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Sudden,
severe headache with no known cause
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Read and
Learn!
Sometimes
symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke
victim may
suffer brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize
the symptoms
of a stroke. Now doctors say a bystander can recognize
a stroke by
asking three simple questions:
*Ask the
individual to SMILE.
*Ask him or
her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
*Ask the
person to SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (ie. It is
sunny out
today)
If he or she
has trouble with any of these tasks,
call 9-1-1
immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
After
discovering that a group of non-medical volunteers could
identify
facial weakness, arm weakness and speech problems,
researchers
urged the general public to learn the three questions.
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