Wellbeing and Counselling

This page summarises the pathways for parents to obtain wellbeing support for their children (in both WCS and Hope), as well as our stance on bullying and harassment.

Support pathways for WCS

Support pathways for Hope

The school takes seriously its responsibility for the safety and welfare of its students. All forms of harassment, victimisation and bullying are unwelcome. It should be noted that such unacceptable actions include isolation of others, verbal abuse, and cyber bullying. The school has a stated policy on such matters and a strategy for managing situations of this nature. The following are the key policy statements. 

• All members of the school community are entitled to feel and to be safe while in the school and while travelling to and from school. 

• Harassment, victimisation and bullying are unacceptable behaviours at Wycliffe. 

• All members of the school community (staff, parents and students) have a responsibility to be working towards the school being a safe and inclusive environment. 

• All members of the school community (staff, parents and students) have a responsibility to report instances of harassment, victimisation or bullying to assist in minimising the entrenching of destructive behaviours. 

• Wycliffe recognises the powerful force that bullying can be in intimidating victims to maintain silence. The school unashamedly encourages identification of bullying and stands against any culture which depicts reporting of bullying as unacceptable “dobbing”. “Dobbing in” of bullies is acceptable and encouraged unless it is itself used as a form of harassment or victimisation. 

• Any student experiencing harassment, victimisation or bullying can expect to be treated seriously when reporting an incident. 

• Any student found responsible for repeated or intentional acts of harassment, victimisation or bullying should expect the imposition of significant consequences. 

• All students involved in incidents of harassment, victimisation or bullying (whether as victims or as perpetrators) can expect to receive counsel and advice to assist them in avoiding repeated occurrences of such incidents. 

• As incidents of victimisation, harassment and bullying are invariably complex, it is important that the staff be advised as early as possible of any situation that has the potential to become a significant risk to the student or students concerned. See above for the relevant procedures.