Youre School Can Help!

admin · Youre School Can Help!

Your school should be clearly saying NO to bullying.
Get everyone in your school involved in tackling bullying, not just the teachers, but other pupils, dinner ladies and playground assistants.

Find out how much bullying goes on in your school. Get together with other pupils and a teacher to organise a questionnaire about bullying (you can make sure that no-one reads the individual answers by putting them in a locked box). Once you have received all the answers, you can write up a short report for everyone to read.

Make sure your school has a good selection of anti-bullying books and other information in its library. Suggest that the school runs an anti-bullying week.

Talk to your teachers about having assemblies and discussions in class about bullying - classes could produce posters, pictures, poems, stories, plays which could be shared with the rest of the school.

Children need to feel safe at break time and lunchtime in the playgrounds - are there lots of things to do and supervisors around?

Get your school to put up ChildLine posters.

In some schools, older children help younger children if they are being bullied. Some have set up "peer counselling" schemes run by the pupils to help children who are being bullied, but also to help children who bully. If you would like more information about peer counselling, ask your teachers. ChildLine can also give you some information about it.