Peer Support
Discover how peer support at North Vista empowers students to care for one another, build positive relationships and create a safe and supportive school community where every Vistalite feels valued and connected.
The Peer Support structure in North Vista Primary School (NVTPS) is known as the Vista Rainbow Bridge. It reaches out to the students who need help and add colours to their school life in NVTPS.
Objectives
To cultivate strong and caring peer relationships in the school
To help students to identify their social circle of support, and recognise signs of distress
To facilitate students to seek help by alerting trusted school personnel when their friends encounter difficulties
Vista Bears
Students from the various levels are trained to be Peer Support Leaders a.k.a. Vista Bears yearly.
Their roles are in the acronyms of B.E.A.R .
Be a friend to all classmates and model “inclusiveness” to the rest to follow.
Encourage classmates to seek help from the teachers, Special Educational Needs Officers (SENO) and counsellor when in distress
Alert to FTs/Mama Papa Bears of students who show signs of distress and change of behavior
Ready to help, listen and support classmates in a non-judgmental way.
Vista Care Corner
Our school has a Vista Care Corner for students to visit during recess, to play and bond with their Vista Bears. It is a safe corner for them to confide in their class Vista Bears.
Vista Buddies
With the vision of “Everyone has a friend in NVTPS”, each student has a Vista Buddy in the class. Vista Buddies will encourage, remind each other to do the right things at all time and help each other,especially when one buddy is absent from school. He/she is responsible to inform his/her buddy of what happened in school and what assignments her buddy has missed during his/her absence.
On top of that, as Vista Buddies, each P4 student is assigned to take care one to two P1 students at the start of each school year.
“The culture of care begins with me”
