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- 2. Learning outcome The whole school community has a shared definition & understanding of bullying behaviour
- 4. What is bullying.... โthe repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of powerโ (Anti-Bullying Alliance & DfE: 2014)
- 5. Insult! Insult! No imbalance of power Insult! Stop it! Insult! Insult! Insult! Imbalance of power through repetition and threat Rumour spread Insult! Insult! Clear imbalance of power Stop it! All of you! Itโs not true!! What we mean by imbalance of power
- 6. My best friend keeps telling me I need to wear deodorant โ this makes me feel embarrassed and upset. Am I being bullied? Whenever I walk to school a group of kids from my school look at me and giggle and whisper to each other. Am I being bullied? My parents have just split up and someone texted everyone I know about it. Now Iโm getting nasty texts all the time calling me a loser. Am I being bullied? I canโt control my movements very well and when I get excited my hands jerk up. A group of kids were mimicking me at the football match. Am I being bullied? Am I Being Bullied? Are they being bullied? What do you think? How would you feel?
- 7. Different types of bullying Verbal bullying โ hurting someone's feelings โข Name, calling, teasing, abusive remarks, threats, insults Physical bullying โ hurting someoneโs body โข Hitting, kicking, pushing, biting, hair pulling, or damaging someoneโs property Indirect bullying โข Excluding, ignoring, isolating, spreading rumours, embarrassing or humiliating people in public, rude gestures such as eye rolling Cyberbullying โข Making prank phone calls, spreading rumours , threatening or saying hurtful things on social media
Editor's Notes
- This is one of a number of bite sized activities designed for Anti-Bullying Week by John Khan, lead practitioner for anti-bullying, Anti-Bullying Works. Explain that this yearsโ theme โMake a Noise About Bullyingโ is about enabling young people to speak out about bullying behaviour, whether it is happening to them or to someone else, face to face or online A big part of this is to encourage โtalking schoolsโ where all young people are given a safe space to discuss bullying and are supported to report all forms of bullying behaviour. This โbite sizeโ lesson can be used as a stand alone assembly, as tutorial discussion or as part of wider discussion about bullying behaviour to examine how to develop a shared definition and understanding of behaviour bullying across the whole school community. Note: To avoid confusion you may wish to review your schoolโs existing definition of bullying behaviour, as this may differ from the one used by the Anti-Bullying Alliance and Department for Education within this presentation.
- Explain that the key learning outcome is that we all understand what bullying behaviour is. This includes young people, adults in school and parents. State that sometimes young people use the term bullying to describe friendship fallout. Acknowledge that friendship problems and bullying behaviour can be upsetting for young people and parents, but it is important to distinguish between the two, as the responses to friendship problems will be different to the strategies used to address bullying behaviour. ย Friendship problems are a normal part of growing up. However, we recognise that repeated friendship problems can sometimes lead to bullying behaviour. But it is important to remember, bullying is not one-off acts of aggression or nastiness. However, such behaviours - if repeated - may be viewed as bullying.
- You may wish to have learners review your existing definition of bullying behaviour or have them brainstorm what they think bullying behaviour is. You should be looking for four key words: Repeated โ not just a one-off incident Deliberate โ it happens on purpose i.e. the intent to hurt someone Hurtful โ often the bullying is about hurting or demeaning someone Imbalance of power โ the person doing the bullying has more power in the situation. For example they may be bigger there may be more of them or they may have more social status. It may be that young people give you actual types of bullying behaviour e.g. verbal or physical. You may wish to write these down on a flipchart or wipe broad, as youโll be returning to these later. Prompt question โ you may wish to ask learners the difference between a friendship fallout (relational conflict) and behaviour bullying. State that many learner and parents will often define friendship problems as bullying behaviour.
- Ask learner if they agree with this definition?
- Some learners (and adults) may struggle with the notion of power - stress that bullying behaviour is about the abuse of power. Introduce the notion of power with regards to cyberbullying using the slide. Explain that when friends fall out thereโs no imbalance of power, each are giving as good as they get. But things can quickly start to look like an imbalance of power though repetition and the threat of harm. State that when others join in or gang up against another person the imbalance of power is quite easy to see.
- Read the short vignettes out. When you read these out keep referring learners to the four key words: deliberate, hurtful, repeated and power to establish if it is bullying. Are they being bullied. How would hey feel
- When asking learner about the definitions of bullying, learners will probably have mentioned the various types of bullying that you may already have taken a note of. Generate a discussion about the types of bullying behaviour. Explain that there are four main types of bullying behaviour. These include: verbal, physical, cyber and indirect. You may need to explain or prompt further discussion about the notion of indirect bullying. Alternatively, learners may know this as psychological bullying. Put simply, itโs about deliberately hurting or harming someoneโs friendships/relationship with other. Ask which of these types of bullying do they think happens most frequently (generally) or in their school. What do they think is the most difficult type of bullying to stop? How might each type of bullying make people feel? Which type of bullying do they think hurts the most?