Ground Rules

•68% of children in the UK report being bullied•87% of parents report that their child had been bullied in the past 12 months•20% report bullying others•85% •had witnessed bullying 82% of them tried to intervene.•20 •children and adolescents a year commit suicide because of being bullied•more than half of those who reported being bullied had been physically hurt•34% of those physically hurt required attention from a doctor or hospital•42% of young people who have been bullied truant•20,000 young people truant everyday as a result of bullying

(Bullying UK’s 2006 National Bullying Survey)

What is bullying? Bullying is when a stronger, more powerful person hurts or frightens a smaller or weaker person on purpose and repeatedly.

There are 4 types of bullying we should all be aware of:

•physical bullying - involves pushing, shoving, spitting, kicking, stealing, and threatening

•verbal bullying - involves mocking, name-calling, taunting, teasing, and verbally threatening.

•emotional bullying - involves giving dirty looks, excluding people, spreading rumors, and ignoring.

•Cyberbullying - involves ending inappropriate emails, texts, or pictures, prank calling, texting, emailing, and blogging.

Bullying is behaviour by an individual or group, repeated over time, that intentionally hurts another individual or group either physically or emotionally.

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