Prevent Bullying

At St Barnabas, we do all that we can to ensure that children are free from bullying in all its forms. We are committed to creating a safe environment where young people can learn and play, can talk about their worries, confident that an adult will listen and will offer help.

Children must know who they can go to, confident that they will be listened to.

In most cases this will be their class teacher. In their absence the Head teacher, Deputy or Family Link Worker will be available.

Children are taught about bullying during PSHE lessons throughout the year and during our Anti-Bullying week each November

WHAT IS BULLYING?

There are many definitions of bullying, at St Barnabas we agree it is:

• The idea that bullying is different from random acts of aggression
• That the harmed person suffers over a period of time
• That bullying is not just physical violence but includes many different forms of behaviour, intimidation, teasing, name calling, isolation
• Online (cyber-bullying) as well as face to face
• Peer to peer pressure Bullying is when someone (or a group of people) picks on you, hurts you, calls you names, threatens or says nasty things about you, takes your things and friends away and keeps on doing it, making you feel frightened and/or unhappy.

It can be:

Physical – hitting, kicking, spitting, tripping someone up, or stealing/damaging someone’s belongings.

Verbal – name-calling, insulting a person’s family, threats of physical violence, spreading rumours, or constantly putting a person down.

Emotional/psychological – excluding someone from a group, humiliation or creating a feeling of danger.

Racist – insulting language/gestures based on a person’s actual or perceived ethnic origin or faith, name-calling, graffiti, or racially motivated violence.

Sexual – sexually insulting language/gestures, name-calling, graffiti, and unwanted physical contact.

Homophobic/ Transphobic – insulting language/gestures based on a person’s actual or perceived sexuality, name-calling, graffiti, or homophobic/ transphobic violence.

Electronic – bullying by text message, chats, sharing inappropriate pictures, bullying on the internet (in chat rooms, on bulletin boards and through instant messaging services), or hate websites.

Bullying is the abuse of power by one person or a group over another. All of the types of behaviour listed above are unacceptable and will not be tolerated at this school.

To find out more about how we ensure handle bullying at St Barnabas , please view our Anti-bullying Policy.