Healthy Schools: bullying

Bullying can have serious consequences for children and young people’s mental wellbeing and self-esteem. It's all-consuming nature and the accompanying psychological, emotional, or physical violence that can be part of it, may have long term consequences. This can include trauma or post traumatic shock disorder (PTSD), anxiety and even suicidal thoughts. Here are some resources to help you be prepared to face these situations.

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Understanding bullying

Check out these 3 resources from YoungMinds:

• The Real stories webpage (external link) can help you to understand why children and young people might resort to bullying as a coping mechanism. 
• Parent Guide to Bullying (external link). A good resource to give to families if their child is being bullied.
• How bullying can affect young people (external link).

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Primary lessons and tips

• This lesson plan is aimed at primary age children: 
  • ABW Primary School Pack 2020 (PDF, 806KB).
• This 2-minute video points out what bullying is to children and how to stop it.
  

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Secondary lessons and tips

• Here are 2 lesson plans that could help discussions about bullying:
  • ABW Secondary School Pack 2020 (PDF, 769KB)
  • Bullying and cyberbullying (external link): what it is and how it feels.
• This 2-minute video examines what bullying is to young people.
  

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More info

• Tips (external link) on how to stand up against a bully
• Why we all need to stand up to bullying (external link)

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All children and young people

• Share this booklet with parents:  Parent Guide to Bullying (PDF, 3.5MB)

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