Kilgraston BFG scheme 2023
Did you know that Kilgraston is full of BFGs?
Each year, Kilgraston’s Head Girl Team leads on the school’s Big Friendly Girl (BFG) scheme and this year’s is now well underway. Here, this year’s Head Girl Laura introduces and explains our unique program.
The Kilgraston BFG system involves the whole school with pupils from Reception to Lower Sixth paired with and looked after by a member of Upper Sixth. A BFG is there to offer advice, to chat to or simply to be a friendly face in the corridors. The BFG program strengthens the connections between year groups and gives younger pupils the chance to make friends with their role models. This year, we are introducing a new feature to the BFG system. We know that as you start to move up the school, academic pressure increases too. As well as being paired with a BFG you share interests with, your BFG can be an academic mentor. This means that your BFG can offer you help and support with the subject you struggle with most.
Ask your Year Head or Head of School how you can sign up.
Laura, Kilgraston Head Girl, 2023 - 2024
How we are marking anti-bullying week
This week marks the annual anti-bullying week, which we began with an assembly on Monday morning lead by anti-bullying ambassadors, Upper Sixth’s Amy, Romy and Anna, and Lower Sixth’s Tallie and Mary, as well as Mrs O’Hear.
Anna explains: “To recognise this week, we have organized a variety of activities to celebrate and spread awareness about the issue of bullying. These include a poster competition, for which we are asking the girls to illustrate our anti-bullying policy at school. We are also in the process of creating a ‘chain of kindnesses for which everyone in the senior school has written an act of kindness that they recently received on a strip of coloured paper.
“We are going to make a display by linking them together and hanging them up, simultaneously symbolizing our school community and how we can connect with each other by always remembering to be kind, especially during these difficult times.”
Maintaining a supportive community is central to the School’s educational philosophy and success.
Mary adds: “Our school works hard to put support schemes in place such as the BFG (big friendly girl) and LFG (little friendly girl) programme, where older girls are paired up with a few younger girls and they are there to support them wherever they may need help or assistance. The anti-bullying ambassador team is another example of a support scheme that our school has in place. As anti-bullying ambassadors we work hard to create an anti-bullying environment.
“At Kilgraston, we value having an open environment and that is why I believe that being part of the anti-bullying ambassador team is important and having support schemes in place such as our mental health ambassadors and the BFG system, is what creates the ever present friendly atmosphere at Kilgraston.”