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=This is a page for topic assignment for term1= =**WHAT INFLUENCES** US?=

What influences us? On your wiki answer the following questions: The most important influences in my life are my family, friends and people around me. Someone is a positive influence on me when they stand up and be a leader.They don't do silly things and are positive and well behaved all round. I would be a positive influence on someone when I'm responsible and use all our school virtues. I be a positive role model for younger people. =**BULLYING**=
 * Q=**What are some of the most important influences in your life?
 * Q=**Explain how someone is a positive influence on you?
 * Q=**How are you a positive influence?

I put my complaint in the **keeping our self safe box/** **kia kaha.** The next day Miss Smith read my complaint and she told me to stay in at play. We had a big talk. Miss Smith being Miss Smith she told the person off and it was resolved. The person apologized to my face. Till now this person is really nice to me. We can joke around now. **So YES it was resolved.** Q=**How can we make our school a bully free zone?
 * Q=**Write about a time when you were bullied. How did it make you feel.
 * A=**I have been bullied a lot in my life.I would be here all day if i told you all of them. But ill tell you one that happened last year. A boy from this school called me names. I told him to stop it but he kept on doing it in front of his mates, which made the situation more difficult. I got so upset every time so i had to do something about it.
 * Q=**Now think of a time when you were a bully and answer the same question.
 * A=** A time when i have bullied someone is last year. I bullied a girl because their were a lot of rumors that she had done some really bad things.I believed those rumors and i said to this person all the stuff that i had heard. She said no and walked off. The next day we had a syndicate meeting. A topic was our school was becoming a bullying school. The teachers told the people who had bullied a boy to stand up there was heaps.Next they said stand up if you have bullied in the last week. I got enough courage to stand up. There were a lot of people who stood. We went back to class and Miss Smith took a couple of people aside and one of them were me. She asked me who i bullied. I told her. So i went and apologized. We are still friends so thats good. **So YES we resolved it.
 * A=**We can make our school a bully free school by giving the bullies consequences.

=**BEING THE BEST WE CAN BE**= WALT: Identify positive goals and possible obstacles for successful adolescence and adulthood. TIB: Wrong decisions made now can alter the way we live our life in the future. WILF: Name important goals for adolescence and adulthood. Describe possible obstacles to reaching these goals.

Quote – We shape our tomorrows by what we think and do today. Each stage of life helps to shape the person that we become. As young people the attitudes and values you develop, the goals you set. And the actions you take affect your ability to make good things happen for yourself. Identifying Important Goals. 1. Write down a list of goals you have for the next few years. These can be general goals or more specific. 2. Now write down some long-term goals you would like to set for your years as an adult. It may be to have a good job and have a happy family life. Think carefully and be creative. Identifying Possible Roadblocks. 1. Identify possible roadblocks or obstacles that might keep you from meeting your goals. A roadblock to being trusted and respected by others could be being arrested for stealing. 2. Perhaps one of the biggest roadblocks for young people is attitude and drug use including alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs. How many of your roadblocks could be associated with drug use? 3. What are some drug-related issues that you think young people your age are concerned with? How do these issues affect you and your friends? Write down one question you have relating to drugs. We will answer it during the course of the unit. 4. What are some of the issues that affect attitude in young people your age? How does this affect you and the people around you? Who is responsible for changing this and how can they get help? What Influences Us? WALT: Examine the influences and pressures that affect young people’s choices and actions. TIB: It is important to be ‘life smart’ and think critically about what is right or wrong, smart and not smart, healthy and harmful, and how to differentiate between positive and negative influences. WILF: Describe negative and positive influences on young people our age. Explain the difference between inside and outside pressures. List influences that affect our choices and actions. Descartes Quote “It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it.” Identify people and things that influence our choices and actions. 1. What is an important influence on? The kind of clothing and shoes you wear? The kind of music you like? The people you admire? Your attitudes about school? Your personal values? Your attitudes about whether to try drugs? 2. Explain how a friend can be a positive influence and give an example. Now identify who can be a negative influence and give an example. 3. Identify what an inside and outside influence is and give an example that is relevant to you. An example could be your friend says “lets pick on those little kids” and the inside influence is you wanting to do it to please your friend. 4. Carry out the survey on your classmates and write up your findings. You need to include the following information:

What do you see as the most important influences on young peoples lives? Do you think people can overcome negative influences? If so how and why How can we increase the positive influences in our lives? Blog Entry On your blog answer the following questions: What are some the most important influences in your life? Explain how someone is a positive influence on you. How are you a positive influence for someone else? Bullying. WALT: Identify what bullying is and how we can effectively deal with it. TIB: Bullying is a very real problem in our school and community. We need to be the generations that says it is not okay! WILF: I can identify what bullying is.

I can explain the effect bullying has on. I can identify behaviours that I need to change. I can identify and use the options I have to stop bullying. Blog Entry. Write about a time that you have been bullied. How did you feel and what did you do about it? Was it resolved? Now think about a time when you were the bully and answer the same questions. What would you change about yourself to make you a better person? Definition. Find the five identifying features of bullying and write a definition that includes them all. This needs to be in your own words. Now look for the forms that bullying can take. What are these? Give some examples of them and explain how it would make the victim feel. Survey. Create a survey that includes the forms of bullying and the identifying features. Ask the students in your class if they have been bullied, what form the bullying took, what features can they identify and how often they are bullied, how it made them feel? Collate your findings and write a summary statement about bullying in your class. Who can help? Now it is time to identify people who can help in thee situations. Who are they? What is there role? What types of bullying do they deal with and how? What can we do to stop bullying? Explain the strategies we can use to keep ourselves safe. Values. What is tolerance? What is respect? How are these two values related to bullying? Explain why you think it is important to tolerate and respect other people’s differences. Complete the knowing and respecting people handout. Making Our School a Bully Free Zone. Identify how you believe we can get rid of bullying from our school. Include: The responsibilities we all have to stop bullying. The types of bullying we have in our school. The levels of bullying and the consequences for each. What can be done to make the victim feel better? What can be done to help the bully?