Introduction to Bullying

• Health
• Primary Education
• Age 11,12

Introduction to Bullying

What is Bullying?

Bullying vs. Rude Behaviour or Conflict

Not all mean or rude behaviour or conflict is bullying.

Definition of bullying:

• Bullying is deliberately hurtful behaviour that is repeated over a period of time.

Types of Bullying

Physical bullying: doing anything that causes physical harm to a person or their property

Verbal bullying: mocking, hurtful teasing, making threats, intimidation, insults, slurs, racist comments, harassment, telling offensive jokes (including jokes about race, gender, etc.). 

Social bullying: doing things to harm someone else’s reputation or make them feel embarrassed or humiliated, talking about someone behind their back, starting or spreading rumours, telling secrets about someone, exclusion.

Cyberbullying: bullying in any of these ways but via technology

Situation: A student repeatedly shoves another student while in the hallway.

1. Physical
2. Verbal
3. Social
4. Cyber

Situation: A student spreads false rumors about another student's personal life.

1. Physical
2. Verbal
3. Social
4. Cyber

Situation: A group of students makes fun of another student's appearance during lunchtime.

1. Physical
2. Verbal
3. Social
4. Cyber

Situation: A student receives hurtful messages on social media.

1. Physical
2. Verbal
3. Social
4. Cyber

Situation: A group of students excludes another student from group activities.

1. Physical
2. Verbal
3. Social
4. Cyber

Rumor:

Information that circulates quickly, often through word of mouth or media, with questionable accuracy or truth. 

• Usually negative.
• Usually a story about someone that someone misinterpreted or made up. 

Gossip:

Sharing of information, true or false, about other people's personal lives or activities.

• Usually negative.
• Usually about things that aren’t the speakers’ business.

Broken Telephone Game

1. The person starting the game thinks of a phrase and whispers it into the next player’s ear only once, with no repeats allowed.
2. That listener tries to correctly repeat that same phrase into the next player’s ear. The last person in the line or at the end of the circle repeats the phrase or word aloud.
3. The player who started announces the correct phrase. Compare the phrase from the beginning to the phrase at the end.

Was the phrase “broken” or changed? What does this game show us?

What can we do to prevent bullying?