Anti-Bullying
What is Bullying?
Bullying is the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power.
Behaviour which hurts an individual or group of individuals. For example, it may be:
- Physical – pushing, poking, kicking, hitting, biting, pinching etc.
- Verbal – name-calling, sarcasm, spreading rumours, threats, teasing, belittling.
- Emotional – isolating others, tormenting, hiding books, threatening gestures, ridicule, humiliation, intimidating, excluding, manipulation and coercion.
- Sexual – unwanted physical contact, inappropriate touching, abusive comments, homophobic abuse, exposure to inappropriate films etc.
- Online /cyber – posting on social media, sharing photos, sending nasty text messages, social exclusion
- Indirect – Can include the exploitation of individuals.
For more information on the Anti Bullying Alliance
Young Carers
A Young Carer is a young person who lives with someone who has an illness, disability, mental health or substance misuse problem. They may also be taking on practical and/or emotional caring responsibilities that would normally be expected of an adult.
The caring can involve lots of physical care such as personal care, giving medication, helping someone get up, get dressed or to get around, or it could mean providing emotional support such as listening to them if they’re upset and looking out for them. In addition, many Young Carers are also responsible for looking after younger brothers and sisters and all or most of the household chores.
At St John’s, we recognise that Young Carers are at risk of social isolation and bullying, under-achievement, absenteeism from school, and physical and mental ill health. Young carers will be supported and monitored via our safeguarding team. Support programmes will be recorded on CPOMS.
St John’s Anti-Bullying Policy
Alongside our strong school values at St John’s we also embrace the five core values of the Anti-Bullying Alliance. We challenge assumptions and ensure all staff are aware of bias. We are open-minded, we listen to and learn from others and are open to new ideas. We encourage everyone within the school community to support each other; pupils and parents know where to come for support and how to support each other. Staff support pupils and each other to recognise the signs of bullying and tackle bullying behaviour. School leaders and governors collaborate to ensure bullying is tackled and strong processes for recording and following up incidents of bullying are in place. We share successes and challenges to help everyone at St John’s to unite against bullying. Finally, we invest time in staff training, monitoring and teaching to ensure everyone can learn from every experience. We continually self-reflect and improve in order to help parents, staff, governors and pupils unite against bullying at St John’s.
We follow the ten key principles to preventing and responding to bullying in schools.
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