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Bullying turning Physical
Bullying was known and has been reported between two students. They were known to not get along together which resulted in one students being moved to a different form...
Verbal Bullying
Child was subjected to verbal bullying both within the classroom and the break areas. It was reported that the bullying was then moving to the child’s social media platforms....
Secondary School Bullying
Child entered First Year and teachers were warned of manipulative behavior. Numerous reports were made describing bullying behavior towards other students which included name calling, pushing, starting rumors and...
Bullying in the boys changing room
A boys clothes were recently thrown into the showers after one day in school. The Boy was only a first year so he was very embarrassed to have...
Unpredictable Violent Behaviour
This case study describes physical bullying behaviour.
Disability and Bullying
I was involved with a student who reported to me that she was being bullied by another girl. A group of around six students (aged c. 17 years old)...
Dealing with Religous Discrimination as a Student Teacher
My first year as a student teacher throw up many challenges within my classroom. None more so then my first year Religion class. As I was teaching in a...
EU Kids Online: Final Report
Children’s use of the internet continues to grow. Striking recent rises are evident among younger children, in countries which have recently entered the EU, and among parents. This last...
Tolerance: Crucial to the success of Anti Bullying Programmes?
The following article is an interesting overview by one of the most outspoken critics of the Olweus method of preventing/intervening in bullying and his programmes. In the wake of the...
The reluctant victim
Sean is 10 and attends Primary School a short distance from his home. He is an average student, though a bit shy. He is new to the school having moved to the city from...
Boy bullying Girl
A 14 year old girl was bitten by a male peer during an altercation at her secondary school in the corridors. The student reported it to the teacher on...
Primary Girl with Disabilities
Ally is an six-year-old girl with a light form of MS who walks differently/more slowly than her classmates. As a result of this she is sometimes subjected to a form of ‘teasing’...
Talking about Bullying: building respectful relationships
This activity should be used as discussion starters supporting teachers to scaffold a collaborative discussion with students as a whole class or in a small groups. The discussion requires...
“Stop Cyberbullying”
In 2010, Child Focus produced this pedagogical dossier mainly addressed to teachers. It provides information on the components of cyberbullying, and especially on measures to take in the class...
How to manage the schoolyard?
Since 2011, the University of Mons has developed an “action-research” on the prevention of violence in schools. This project focusses on three areas: playground regulation, organisation of mediation sessions and peer supervision (“intervision”)...
Social and physical bullying
“Bullying is (1) intentional negative behaviour that (2) typically occurs with some repetitiveness and is (3) directed against a person who has difficulty defending himself or herself” (Olweus, 2011).
Social media responsibility of a teacher in primary school.
This episode relates to support I provided a teacher in Dublin relating to her responsibilities as a teacher in her pupils social media outside of school. Incident A primary...
intimidate and beaten
Some years ago in my classroom occurred a serious bullyng episode. Two guys making fun every day another child, after few months this child respond to attack and rebel against...
Multiplier event in Patra
We had a very successful and very informative multiplier event in Patra this morning! Thank you all so much! Being part of this CoP makes me feel so lucky and...
The Bystander
Sinead (2nd year) arrived at the Maths class as usual and sat beside Maree. Brigit came in and sat on the other side of Maree where Jennifer usually sat....
Tom (now 64) remembers being bullied
Tom, a 64 year old adult, had been a victim of bullying when at school. When the topic of bullying arose in a casual conversation, Tom immediately began to...
Interview with a Perpetrator
This student acknowledged that she regularly got into trouble in school because she did not like to be told what to do and had a really short fuse. She...
Maeve and gang bullying
Maeve and gang bullying Maeve was a fifteen year old, third year student. She was very happy in school and was popular, personable and well adjusted. She loved sport...
Anti-bullying Word-search
I devised the attached Word Search to promote discussion about bullying and how to deal with it. It uses some of the terms associated with bullying. It may be used to...
New girl in the school
Catherine has recently moved to the school from another part of the country. She is very pretty, outgoing, funny and quickly gains the attention of the boys in her...
From the Playground to the School Yard the Thin Red Line
Dan, the victim in this case is an 8 year old foreign national who moved to a new area with his parents during the summer holidays. He is a...
Student Led Anti BUllying Team – giving students a voice!
From research with Students they felt that, their voices were not been heard and that the best way to do this, was to establish a student led “Anti...
Telling / Bystander / Where Questionnaire
Following on from previous research, when the outcome was clear from Pupils themselves, that they were not comfortable completing “Bullying Questionnaires” in the classroom as the “Bully” was usually...
Snapchat Impersonation
This bullying episode takes place on snapchat where the victim who did not have her own snapchat profile was impersonated. Our victim is a 14 year old pupil in...
Resolve the Problem
This activity requires the teacher to work with the class for a full term on anti-bullying awareness, understanding, prevention and intervention strategies. This exercise can be done with the...
Sorcha's Story
An irate parent contacted a class tutor to report that his daughter Sorcha was being bullied by Ellen. Both girls had been friends and sat together in class. On...
Using a Sociometric test to identify relationship patterns and power dynamics
This sociometric test identified the relationship choices of rejected students and also showed the students who held most (controversial) power in class.
The Physical bully
This case can be defined as Bullying as it is unwanted aggressive physical behaviour, perpetrated by one individual and repeated over time. The types of bullying behaviour included in this case are...
Darina and the spider
Darina’s Story Darina was a twelve-year-old first year student. She was attempting to come to terms with her new school and new experiences. She had some learning difficulties and she had a...
Friends?
Raymond and Colin are both 12 years of age and in the same 6th class. Both boys are friends, however, Raymond spoke to the principal one day to say...