On Monday, we all came to school wearing odd socks to celebrate individuality and inclusion and to raise awareness of Anti-bulling Day.
At St James’, we use the acronym STOP to identify bullying:
We consider bullying when you hurt someone physically or emotionally (including online) Several Times On Purpose.
If this happens, we tell children to Start Telling Other People. To do this, children know they can use the Living and Learning box, tell a trusted adult, email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org or even call Childline (0800 1111).
This year’s Anti-bullying theme was ‘power for good’.
We spent time learning about six roles involved in bullying:
- ringleader
- assistant
- reinforcer
- bystander or outsider
- target
- defender
We watched this video to help us to understand these roles more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnEjpHzTuwg
We also watched a BBC live lesson which had a range of challenges to help us think about how to stop bullying. The video can be found here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/articles/zkv6khv
Finally, the children took part in some interactive learning from the Digital Matters website. Here children had to respond to scenarios whilst learning along the way. For example, we learn what the word ‘flaming’ meant:
Flaming is the act of sending angry or insulting messages, often with profanity, over the internet or in online forums.
The interactive online resources can be found here:
https://www.internetmatters.org/digital-matters/modules/?user_type=student
Help at home – Please speak to your child about the things they’ve learnt. Where can they go should they be experiencing bullying? What is ‘flaming’? Watch the videos together and allow them time to access the interactive learning on the Digital Matters website.