Anti-bullying

A bully is someone who hurts another person repeatedly, by using behaviour which is meant to scare, hurt or upset that person.

At our school, we use the word ‘STOP’ to identify bullying:

It is important to remember that single problems and falling out with friends are not bullying.

Bullying is behaviour which is repeated on purpose and is meant to upset someone.

Bullying can be different things, and is not just hitting or kicking another person.

Emotional bullying is hurting someone’s feelings, leaving them out or bossing them about.
Physical bullying is punching, kicking, spitting, hitting or pushing someone.
Verbal bullying is teasing someone, calling them names or using hand signs. People can also use verbal bullying to be racist or homophobic.
Racist means bullying someone because of their skin colour, race or what they believe in.
Homophobic means bullying someone because of their gender or sexuality; calling someone gay or lesbian would be homophobic.
Sexist means bullying someone because of their sex (whether they are a boy or a girl).
Cyber bullying involves sending horrid messages over the internet or by text message.

Bullying can be done through another person, by one person asking another person to say nasty things.

The list below shows the adults at our school who you can speak to:

Year	7	8	9	10	11
Head of Year	Ms Lelyveld	Mrs Scott	Miss Jones	Mrs Leicester	Mrs Knight
Assistant Head of Year	Mr Evans	Mr Nelson	Mrs Calvignac	Mrs Snead	Ms Hewitt
Senior Leadership Team	Mrs Henshaw	Mrs Witter	Mrs Downing	Mrs Evans	Mr Hughes
Your Form Tutor, the Headteacher Mrs Henshaw, or in fact, ANY member of staff.

You can also report bullying via our school website.