Anti-Bullying in Schools
"It is not surprising that many victims of bullying poison their bodies with an overload of stress hormones because they hold their anger, fear and sadness. This is then reflected in their behaviour.""It could lead to severe pathological or psychological damage."
-Professor Rachel Yehuda - New York 1996
This one day course aims to assist children as well as parents deal with bullies of all shapes, sizes and disguises.
The program offers a range of self-help activities to explore and put into action in relation to being bullied. Empathy and patience, activities and exercises create the learning environment. It takes time for children who are victims to change their perceptions and become more positive, and to change their behaviour and try something new.
This informative course covers areas such as:
- How do you recognise a victim?
- How do you know your child is a victim?
- How do you recognise a bully?
- What can you do?
Definitions of Bullying
"To hurt, intimidate or persecute" - Collins English Dictionary Australian Edition 1992
"Bullying is the aggressive behaviour arising from the deliberate attempt to cause physical or phycological distress to others." - Peter Randell (1997)
"Bullying involves an initial desire to hurt, This desire is expressed in action, someone is hurt, the action is directed by a more powerful person or group, it is without justification, it is typically repeated, and it is done so with evident enjoyment" -Ken Rigby (1998)
Bullying Includes
- Social Banter
- Hurtful Teasing
- Nasty Bodylanguage
- Pushing and Shoving
- Malicious Gossip
- Racist Comments
- Exclusion
- Extortion
- Phone and Internet Abuse
- Sexual Harrassment
- Damage to Property
- Physical Violence
- Use of Weapons
- Criminal Acts
- Hurtful Teasing
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Student Survey on Bullying at School
Cross as many dots as you think applies to you
This page is for your own personal use, feel free to print it out.
We want you to answer the following questions as truthfully as you can. We do not need your name on this survey and we will not show any other students what you have written.
When we talk about being bullied, it can cover the following areas:
- Hurtful teasing and name calling
- Nasty Body language (giving you a greasy)
- Pushing and Shoving
- Malicious Gossip (spreading rumors about you that are not true and
hurtful)
- Racist Comments
- Excluding you from a group of friends or from a game (often in front
of others)
- Extortion (demanding something you own from you e.g. money, food,
books)
- Phone and Internet Abuse
- Sexual Harrassment (putting pressure on you for sex or calling you
names such as 'poofta' or 'lesbian')
- Damage to your Property
- Physical Violence or threatening to get someone else to beat you up
- Use of Weapon or threat to use a weapon against you
What is your Gender?
- Male
- Female
How old are you? ....
1. Looking at the above list; when do you feel was the last time one of these happened to you?
- today
- within the last week
- within the last month
- within the last six months
- a year or more ago
2. How often would you say you are bullied?
- Once
- several times
- almost every day
- several times a day
3. Where you bullied?
- At home
- going to and from school
- in the school yard
- during lunchtime
- in the toilets
- in the classroom
- other
4. Did/do you consider the bullying to have been?
- no problem
- worrying
- frightening
- so bad that you didn't want to come to school
- sometimes I do not mind it
5. Did the bullying
- have no effect on you
- some bad effects
- terrible effect
- make you change your life in some way (e.g. change schools or move
out of a neigbourhood or change the way you get to school)
6. What do you think of bullies?
- no feeling
- feel sorry for them
- hate them
- like them
7. Who do you think is responsible when bullying continues to go on?
- the bully
- the bully's parents
- the teachers
- the principal
- yourself
- children who are not bullied and don't help you
8. If you have been bullied, did you
- report it to a teacher
- report it to an adult (eg your parent)
- not report it at all
- wanted to report it but were to afraid of the bully
9. If you were bullied and did not report it, was it because
- you were afraid that the bully would hurt you for telling
- you believed that nothing would be done anyway
- you did not think it was serious enough to report (it is a normal
part of school)
- you think that the school would not believe you
- you might get in trouble from the school for telling or your parent(s)
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