Safeguarding

If you are worried and you don’t want to talk to a trusted adult, you may want to chat to someone else about how you feel. ChildLine is a site where you can have a private 1-2-1 chat with a counsellor who will listen to you and not judge you. You can also call them for free on 0800 1111 and it won’t show up on your phone bill.

Anti Bullying

How to deal with bullying at school

If you are being bullied at school, tell a friend, tell a teacher and tell your parents. It won't stop unless you do. It can be hard to do this so if you don't feel you can do it in person it might be easier to write a note to your parents explaining how you feel, or perhaps confide in someone outside the immediate family, like a grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin and ask them to help you tell your parents what's going on. 

Your form tutor needs to know what is going on so try to find a time to tell him or her when it won't be noticeable. You could stay behind on the pretext of needing help with some work. If you don't feel you can do that, then speak to the school nurse. Don't be tempted to respond to any bullying or hit back because you could get hurt or get into trouble.

Bullying includes:

• people calling you names
• making things up to get you into trouble
• hitting, pinching, biting, pushing and shoving
• taking things away from you
• damaging your belongings
• stealing your money
• taking your friends away from you
• posting insulting messages or rumours, in person on the internet or by IM (cyberbullying)
• threats and intimidation
• making silent or abusive phone calls
• sending you offensive phone texts
• bullies can also frighten you so that you don't want to go to school, so that you pretend to be ill to avoid them

If you are worried about bullying and you don't know who to talk to, take a look at https://www.bullying.co.uk/

For more information about staying safe on the internet, please visit

http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/topics/stay-safe