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S.P.S. PEACEM*Xf18 - Peacemakers at BPS, Grade 6 students, posed tor a photo on playground equipment recent-
ly. At top of slide, in front: Patricia Quei ngesser. At top, from left: Bryanna Adak, Laura Hood, Shannon Montgomery,
Amanda Short, Stacie GiHer, Shaelyn Ward, Amy McClure, Laura Nixon, Kendra Bennewies, Lindsey Powell, Shannon
Brooker, Missy Teatero, Trisha McClure, Barry Young, Cody McNaughton (on pole), Gemd Dalton, Devin Blake. Absent
from photo: Annie Sebben.
learn how to keepStudents peace at school
BY DAVID SCOTT
Expositor Editor
In the wild west, a peace-
maker was a Colt .45 pistol.
However, in more "civilized"
times and places like school
playgrounds, peacemakers
are students armed with the
knowledge of peer mediation
and conflict resolution.
Ten Grade 6 students from
Seaforth Public School (SPS)
recently attended a conflict
resolution workshop at the
Wingham Armouries spon-
sored by the Huron Board of
Education Conflict
Resolution Committee. They
were part of a group of 60
students in total from
Howick, Turnberry, Grey,
Brussels. Brookside and
Wingham public schools who
spent the day training in con-
flict resolution techniques to
help primary students deal
with minor schoolyard dis-
agreements.
Grade 6 students watched
skits on realistic situations
involving conflict and per-
formed various games, and
role-playing exercises to
become effective peacemak-
ers. Three teachers and five
students from Wingham
Public School, Grey 'Central
and Central Huron Secondary
School presented information
for the students.
One skit Involved some-
body dropping pizza on
another person's shirt. That
person wanted the pizza -
dropper to pay for the dry-
cleaning, said Shannon
Brooker, who attended the
workshop.
Another game that was
played was "pretzel."
"We split into groups then
crossed arms and held onto
other people's hands to make
a circle. It was to practise
working together," said
Stacie Giller.
Students are able to apply
skills learned at the workshop
to everyday life as well.
"There was lots of media-
tion training. If you get in a
fight at home (with a brother
or sister) you can work it out
without running and telling a
parent," said Trisha McClure.
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meet, those who attended the
workshop had to pass on the
information they received to
the nine other peacemakers in,
Grade 6 when they returned.
How It Works
The 19 peacemakers are
scheduled to cover recesses
at school, with two patrolling
the schoolyard at a time. If
primary students encounter a
conflict that needs resolving,
"we ask if they want a peace-
maker, teacher or themselves
to deal with it," says Bryanna
Adair.
A few different problems
happened with snow forts
this past winter. In one inci-
dent, the bell rang to sound
the end of recess and as the
children were heading into
school, some of them
knocked over a snow fort that
some others had made. And
they got into a fight over it.
said Gerrid Dalton.
"Sometimes they bring
skipping ropes (to recess) and
say one person is in charge
and won't let anybody play,"
says Shaelyn Ward.
"If something happens. they
come and talk to the peace-
makers," says Shannon
Montgomery.
"Sometimes the kids don't
think there's a problem and
they run away and we have to
get a teacher," says Kendra
r -J
Bennewies.
Coming Up With Solution
The students involved in
the conflict are encouraged to
come up with their own solu-
tion. The peacemakers go
through a set of questions
with the primary students and
let them come up with an
answer to their conflict, says
Amy McClure. "We help
them come to a solution. But
we really don't offer it," said
Patricia Querengesser.
If a solution can't be
reached at rcess, the peace-
makers will visit the students
in their classroom afterwards,
invite them into the hail to
talk and hopefully resolve the
situation.
If it can't be resolved with
the peacemakers present,
there is an option of talking
to "mediators" - Grade 7 stu-
dents who previously were
trained as peacemakers. All
of these steps in the conflict
resolution are overseen by
teaching staff.
The peacemaker program is
voluntary for Grade 6 stu-
dents and if they enjoy it,
they can take the next step of
training and become a media-
tor in Grade 7. After that, if
they're still interested, they
can join the Yard Committee
in Grade 8.
Teacher Julie Holmes, who
accompanied the students on
^-d
their one -day workshop in
Wingham, says in some
schools peacemakers are
Grade 7 students.
The Grade 6 students at
SPS had different reasons for
becoming peacemakers.
"It sounded like fun. I like
to work with little kids." said
Stacie Giller.
"1 like to help kids solve
their problems. We had them
when we were their age,"
said Missy Teatero.
Peacemakers can also apply
their skills to situations that
happen in their own peer
groups.
• "The boys won't let the
girls play (basketball or base-
ball) because they think
they're better," says Shaelyn
Ward.
Parent Session
SPS is offering a Parent
Information Session on the
"Second Step" conflict reso-
lution program on Monday,
April 21 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
at the SPS library. "Parents of
current Grade 6 and 7 stu-
dents have been invited
already. Anyone else interest-
ed is welcome," says
Holmes.
Mr. Howard Morton, vice-
principal of Clinton Public
School, a certified Second
Step trainer, will be present-
ing information.
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