All about KiVa 

• Evidence-based programme to prevent and reduce bullying

• Developed at the University of Turku, Finland (with funding from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture)

• The meaning of ”KiVa”: ”Nice” and ”against bullying”

• To reduce bullying

• To prevent new bullying cases from emerging 

• To minimise negative effects caused by bullying

• Providing important learning experiences for our tamariki:

  • treating others with respect

  • resisting peer pressure

  • taking responsibility

It is important that all the students understand that they can make a difference!

“Let’s stop bullying together!”

Harmful behaviour/degrading treatment that is:

• • deliberate

  • repeated

  • targeted at a relatively defenseless or a less powerful person 

• Verbal: name-calling, public ridicule

• Indirect: such as excluding a person from a group, or spreading mean stories about him/her

• Physical: pushing, hitting, kicking…

• Cyberbullying: relatively new using computers and cell phones

Bullying is not...

• • a conflict

  • an argument

  • a fight

Should any of these no-bullying behaviours occur, our school behaviour model is employed.  

The KiVa process echos what is being taught in classroom lessons. 

Lesson goals:

• • For children to understand the role a group plays in bullying 

  • To increase empathy for victims of bullying

  • To learn ways to support a victim of bullying, and to take responsibility for not allowing bullying to occur