Child Bullying is when a child keeps doing or saying things to have power over another child, usually in the school setting.

Bullying is far more common than you would think, in the school enviroment it is an everyday occurance, but the degree of intensity tends to be minor in the infant school setting and increases as the children grow older.

Most school children will come face to face with a bully at one point in their school life. A bully has no specific age, gender or stereotype at all and could be the least expected child to be a bully, which is very common amongst school children.

How Child Bullying Happens

• Name calling is very common way to bully at school
• Writing unkind things about children
• Saying nasty things to children or about them to another child
• Purposely ignoring children
• Leaving a child out of games etc
• Threatening and terrorising children
• Making a child feel uncomfortable or scared
• Taking a childs possessions away
• Damaging childrens belongings
• Hitting or causing harm to a child is a more severe way to bully
• Nipping and pinching children
• Intimidating a child
• Making children do things that they feel uncomfortable doing

Any child is capable of being a bully, especially within the school environment where there are so many targets. A bully is normally someone who is not well liked by the other children, usually they are befriended out of fear by weaker children. If a bully is not confronted then a bully will only grow stronger and more powerful on a daily basis.

Bullies cannot deal with anyone who can stand up to them, hence the reason why they only bully certain children who may be small, different, lonely or even just frightened of them.

Are You Being Bullied?

• Tell a grown up immediately about bullying
• Write down where the bullying happens
• Write down who does the bullying
• Write down when the bullying happens
• Draw a picture if writing about bullies is difficult
• Say "NO" to unwanted bullying behaviour

Remember that you have the right not to be bullied.

You must never accept the blame for being bullied as it is NOT your fault.

Bullies must be dealt with as soon as possible before the situation grows and gets out of control.