Today we are going to learn about bullying and the ways in which it can hurt us.
Sometimes people use the word ‘bullying’ to refer to all kinds of bad and unacceptable behaviour. It important that we understand that when we talk about bullying we are talking about behaviour that is hurtful, repeated and deliberate.
HURTFUL – can hurt you physically, your belongings or your feelings
REPEATED – it happens more than once
DELIBERATE – the person intends to cause hurt.
In order to help us to understand this, we are going to look at a video and see if we can identify what is and what isn’t bullying.
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What happened in this video?
How do you think Jason feels when Michael says he is ‘useless’ at football?
How do you think his friend Kevin feels?
What do you think about what Kevin did? Was he right to go off with Michael and leave his friend out?
When we deliberately leave others out, what do we call it?(Exclusion)
Was it wrong to leave Jason out? (It is important to teach that constant, deliberate exclusion is bullying and can have detrimental
effects on those always left out.)
What could Kevin have done differently?
What could Michael have done differently?
Could Jason have done anything to help himself?
The Big Question: We have looked at and discussed the video clip and we saw how badly Jason was treated. Do you think Jason was bullied? Was the behaviour hurtful? (Yes). Was it repeated? (No). Was it deliberate? (Yes).
Therefore, while it was bad and wrong, it was not bullying.
Video Part 2
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What was different about this scene?What was better about the outcome?
How did Jason feel at the end?
Will Michael have learned anything from this?
What lessons can we learn from this scenario? (It is important to
stand up for others who are excluded.)
Types of Bullying Worksheet
Bullying Definition Worksheet
Let’s look at these slides to find how bullying can hurt someone.
TR 6 – Physical Bullying: Hitting, pushing, pinching or tripping;
interference with another child’s possessions, e.g. books, money or lunch
Children identify that this is hurting someone’s body or belongings.
TR 7 – Verbal bullying: Name-calling; making hurtful, insulting or
humiliating remarks about a child’s appearance, ability, family, race or
religion.
Children identify that this is hurting someone’s feelings.
TR 8 – Emotional Bullying: Deliberately excluding or isolating a child;
intimidation; belittling someone’s efforts; spreading mean, hurtful or
untrue gossip or rumours.
