Safe Schools
London South Collegiate Institute
2025-2026 Safe and Inclusive School Plan
Our school is committed to providing all students with a safe, caring, and inclusive learning environment free from bullying and harassment that promotes respect, acceptance, and empathy.
Staff, students, parents and caregivers, and community partners will work together as a team to help make our school safe and welcoming for everyone.
The Safe and Inclusive School Plan highlights some of the key actions that our school community will put in place as part of our bullying prevention and intervention efforts.
Key Priorities and Goals
This year we are focusing on fostering positive peer relationships by promoting healthy interactions through mentorship, leadership, and collaboration.
We are doing this because we want to help students get along better, feel included, and build healthy friendships. By encouraging positive interactions through mentorship, leadership, and teamwork, we’re creating a school where everyone feels safe, respected, and supported.
Key Actions or Strategies
Implement a Peer Mentorship program to support and guide junior students.
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Implement a Peer Mentorship program to support and guide junior students.
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Develop our Peer Tutoring program to build leadership and positive peer connections.
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Staff will continue to model respectful communication, empathy, and healthy problem-solving and make explicit this work with students.
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Use restorative practices to help students resolve conflicts and rebuild relationships.
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Provide students with opportunities to share their voices through leadership experiences.
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Community and Home Connections
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Ask your student about their day at school: attendance, learning activities, social interactions, and participation in extracurricular.
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Celebrate your student’s/child’s positive interactions at home and reinforce the school’s expectations.
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Model positive social behaviour including respect, empathy, and conflict resolution.
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Check out the following resources at TVDSB Safe Schools and Well-Being
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This Safe Schools and Well-Being portfolio collaborates to support staff through Tier-1, evidence-based practices. These foundational practices establish safety, connection, and regulation, which are essential conditions for learning. Through the important work, a deep understanding of students and relationships will foster the positive climate necessary for student well-being and achievement.
Developing a Safe and Inclusive Culture
Under the direction and guidance of the Ministry of Education (Policy/Program Memorandum No. 144 (PPM144), our School Board is committed to supporting schools to create and maintain positive school climates.
The Thames Valley District School Board would like to introduce the Safe and Inclusive School Plan (SISP). This plan replaces the former Bullying Prevention and Intervention Plan (BPIP), and the Safe and Accepting School Plan. This plan will be completed annually by every elementary and secondary school in the Thames Valley District School Board.
This important work is facilitated at the school-level by a school-based team. This team is composed of students, family members, teachers, support staff, community partners, and the principal and/or vice principal.
This important work is facilitated at the school-level by a school-based team. This team is composed of students, family members, teachers, support staff, community partners, and the principal and/or vice principal.
This important work is facilitated at the school-level by a school-based team. This team is composed of students, family members, teachers, support staff, community partners, and the principal and/or vice principal. The Safe and Inclusive School Team meets several times throughout the school year. During this time, school teams will identify one local priority, and create a plan to support the identified goal. As the plan is implemented throughout the year, the Safe and Inclusive School team will continuously support these goals and monitor the results.