SEALSay no

to bullying

• Statistics

38% of young people have been affected by cyber-bullying.

31,599 children called ChildLine (UK) in 2011/12 about bullying.

Almost half of children and young people say they have been bullied at school at some point in their lives.

18% of children and young people who worried about bullying said they would not talk to their parents about it.

1. What is it?(and what it isn’t)

2. How does it feel?

3. Why do it?4. How to avoid it.

5. How to tackle it.

BULLYING. What we will learn about:

What is it?1. Physical: hitting, kicking, tripping, pushing, damaging property

Not just once in a football match, but REPEATEDLY (many times).

What is it?

• 1. Verbal: name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation.

Not just once, because you had an argument, but REPEATEDLY.

What is it?

• 1. Hidden:spreading rumours, playing nasty jokes, copying, getting others to exclude,

What is it?

• 1. Cyber: part of hidden bullying but uses phones, internet, instant messaging.

• Sending mean messages or threats to a person's email account or cell phone

Posting hurtful or threatening messages on social networking sites or web pages

Stealing a person's account information to break into their account and send damaging messages

Pretending to be someone else online to hurt another person

Taking unflattering pictures of a person and spreading them through cell phones or the internet

Sexting, or circulating sexually suggestive pictures or messages about a person

Spreading rumours online or through texts

2. How does it feel to be bullied?

Day after day I go to school and only bad things happen. Nothing good ever happens to me. If the kids in my class could be in my shoes they would understand how I feel. If only they knew how I feel every day. Even in my dreams there are nothing but bad things.

3. Why do it?

Power (it makes them feel ‘big’)

Reward

NO empathy (don’t know how someone else feels)

Can‘t control their feelingsCopying

4. How to avoid it.

Don’t be a witness

Tell them to stop!

Act unimpressed

Walk away

5. How to tackle it.

But if it goes on and on...

Ask your friends for supportTell a teacherTell your parents

DON’T DO NOTHING!

(remember: 18% of children and young people said they would not talk to their parents about it).