Other Types of Bullying
Today we are going to learn about some of the reasons why a person, even though it is never their fault, might be bullied. We will
learn about different kinds of identity-based bullying.
Can you recall the various types of bullying behaviour from the previous lesson, for example, name calling or physically hurting someone or damaging their belongings?
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.
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.
Emotional Bullying: Deliberately excluding or isolating a child; intimidation; belittling someone’s efforts; spreading mean, hurtful or untrue gossip or rumours.
Types of Bullying
What does the term ‘identity’ mean?
Identity is the characteristics by which a person is recognised, for example, name, race, religion and family. In other words, the things that make me who I am!
Do you think people are sometimes bullied because they are considered to be different – they are bullied because of their identity.
Can you think of someone who might be bullied because of their identity.
Examples
- Making fun of or mimicking physical appearance or speech
- Refusing to work or play with someone or to sit next to them
- Insulting someone’s family
- Name calling, slagging, verbally abusing
- Physical threats or attacks
- Writing nasty messages about someone
- Giving someone ‘the look’
- Getting others to name call or exclude.
In each of the above examples what type of identity based bullying is it? Is the bullying based on race, disability, religion, family background or appearance.
We are going to look a little bit more closely at racist bullying, homophobic bullying and bullying because of disability, all of which are identity-based bullying.
Racist bullying is when someone is bullied because of the colour of their skin, their language, their ethnic grouping, or their religious or cultural practices.
Examples include
- Making fun of a person’s country of origin.
- Pretending not to understand what someone is saying or mimicking what someone is saying
- Making fun of the way someone walks or talks
- Slagging someone about the colour of their skin
- Making fun of a person’s clothes
- Mocking someone’s religious observance
Homophobic bullying
Examples include
- Making fun of someone because of the games they like to play or the activities they engage in, for example, calling a girl nasty names because she likes to do things that are considered to be ‘boy’ things, and vice versa, slagging a boy for playing with toys that are considered ‘girlie.’
- Making fun of how someone walks, talks or dresses
- Calling someone ‘gay’ just to hurt and upset them (it is important that pupils understand that some people are gay and being gay is ok, but it is not ok to use that word to hurt or embarrass someone)
Bullying because of disability or special educational needs
Examples include
- Mimicking someone’s speech or movements, for example, a stammer, lisp or involuntary movements
- Making fun of a specific difficulty or disability, for example, visual or hearing impairment or using a wheelchair
- Making fun of someone’s work.
The worksheet has a list of statements about bullying, some of which are true and some, not true. In pairs/groups, pupils decide which ones they think are true and which are not true.
This is the time for learning about bullying so it is ok if you don’t agree with each other.
Finally it is never your fault if you are bullied and that you should always tell an adult if you are bullied or if it is happening to someone they know.
