The Social Patrol Initiative: The cases of violence that have swept the education system in recent months, including shocking cases of boycott of students such as the recent incident in Be'er Sheva, meant that the staff at the Shimon Peres School in Rosh HaAyin could not sit idly by.
Following this, a social patrol was established at the school.
This is a group of students who tour the school during breaks in order to identify individual children, give children ideas for social games and serve as an example of positive and respectful social communication.
Leading the move is fourth-grade educator Linoy Golan (29).
Over the past two months, her classmates have undergone a training process in which they have learned to identify different social cases, analyze them and also try to give them solutions.
Students learned from them the important social values and identifying social and non-social behaviors.
Now, in turn, they walk around with a notebook in which they document the situations they encountered, cases they were able to help, dilemmas that arose.
The notebook is passed from group to group for follow-up and is also used for documentation and learning.
At the end of each week, the children of the group tell the whole class what they experienced.
The corona has contributed to the escalation of violent incidents.
(Those photographed have nothing to do with the article), Photo: Ami Shumen
Educator Linoy Golan and the class counselor closely monitor the process, have a dialogue with the class and help find solutions to the dilemmas that have arisen.
According to Golan, "We had two years that interpersonal communication was harmed. I feel that the corona did its thing. Children cross borders, and we as a system try to be there as much as possible. We are very alert to everything. Now in a very unique project we also recruited students. They will take part and be active in creating a better social environment. "
Lior Ohana, a fourth-grade student participating in the project: "We go around during school breaks and see if there are single children, and help them so that everyone has friends."
Mayor Shalom Ben Moshe added, "Rosh HaAyin has quality youth and a leading education system. The Social Patrol project is unique to Rosh HaAyin. My recommendation to the local government education committee is to adopt the idea across the country, and I believe it will serve as a model for other cities."
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