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Anti-Bullying at Greenbank High School
At Greenbank High School, everyone- staff, pupils, and parents -share the responsibility of creating a safe and secure environment where every child feels protected and valued. Parents can send their children to school with confidence, knowing that we take a zero-tolerance approach to bullying. Our Anti-Bullying Policy ensures pupils learn in a supportive, caring atmosphere, free from fear or intimidation. Bullying is anti-social behaviour that affects everyone; it is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Our Commitment as a Rights Respecting School
As a Rights Respecting School, we uphold the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, including:
  • The right to a childhood (protection from harm)
  • The right to education
  • The right to health (including access to clean water, nutritious food, and medical care)
  • The right to be treated fairly
  • The right to be heard
With rights come responsibilities. Pupils are expected to respect the rights of others by treating everyone with kindness and fairness, avoiding harm, and valuing different beliefs and opinions.
What is Bullying?
Bullying is deliberately hurtful behaviour, repeated over time, which is difficult for the victim to defend against. It disrupts learning and can make life miserable.
Types of Bullying
  • Cyber/Electronic: Online abuse via social media, messaging, or hate websites
  • Physical: Hitting, kicking, spitting, tripping, stealing or damaging belongings
  • Verbal: Name-calling, insults, threats, racist remarks, spreading rumours
  • Indirect (Emotional): Exclusion, malicious messages, gossip
  • Racist: Abuse based on race, colour, or beliefs
  • Sexual: Inappropriate language, gestures, unwanted contact
  • Homophobic: Abuse based on actual or perceived sexuality
All forms of bullying are unacceptable and will not be tolerated at Greenbank High School. All students are educated on the types of bullying and how to report bullying. Year 9 pupils can opt to become anti-bullying ambassadors, supporting our school’s zero tolerance approach to bullying.
Our Aims
Greenbank High School aims to:
  • Help pupils to be polite, honest, and independent, while working with others in a tolerant and caring way
  • Develop positive and confident attitudes towards the needs of others and the environment
  • Foster a culture of respect, empathy, and inclusion, where diversity is celebrated
  • Equip pupils with the skills to resolve conflict constructively and build healthy relationships
  • Encourage pupils to speak out against injustice and bullying, promoting courage and responsibility
  • Support pupils in becoming active citizens, who contribute positively to their school and wider community
Anti Bullying Policy

  • Our Values Curriculum reflects these aims plus-circle Created with Sketch Beta.

    Our curriculum is used to:

    • raise awareness about bullying and our anti-bullying policy
    • develop PSHCE schemes of work and enrichment days to highlight bullying related issues and how todeal with them.
    • develop self-esteem through, for example:
    • displays of work
    • verbal praise and other rewards
    • encouraging pupils to stand up for themselves and not to allow others to make their lives unhappy
    • pupils being given responsibilities within school
    • pupils being encouraged to express their opinions and ideas
    • School assemblies/ Personal Development Time to be used to reinforce bullying will not be tolerated.
    • Posters on the school notice boards/form rooms/classrooms/computer screen savers to be used to remind pupils that bullying is not acceptable.
    • A summary of this policy is in all student planners.
    • Provide written guidance to our pupils to explain what they should do if they are being bullied or if they see another pupil being bullied.
    • Leaflets to Parent/Carers and pupils regarding bullying are available from the front office.
    • Pupils need to realise that they must not stand by and let bullying happen. If they witness bullying taking place and take no action, they become part of the problem and as such are condoning it.
  • Pupils who are bullied will be plus-circle Created with Sketch Beta.
    • listened to and taken seriously and the incident will be discussed only with the necessary people.
    • assured that it was right to report the incident(s).
    • reassured that they do not deserve to be bullied.
    • involved in the process of deciding what action is to take place to help and stop the bully.
    • able to discuss strategies to deal with emotions and feelings and to understand and cope with bullying.
    • discouraged from hitting back or retaliating in any way.
    • offered the chance to talk with other staff that can support – e.g. Attendance Welfare Officer, Careers Adviser.engaged in follow up meetings to ensure the any action taken is working
      Staff will always try to ensure pupil safety.
  • Pupils who are bullies: plus-circle Created with Sketch Beta.
    • will have their behaviour challenged
    • will be treated fairly
    • will be given the opportunity to change behaviour and encouraged and supported in doing so.
    • will be told that sanctions may be imposed
  • Sanctions plus-circle Created with Sketch Beta.
    • Official warnings to cease offending i.e. letter home
    • Parent/Carers invited in to school
    • Detention
    • Loss of free time
    • Exclusion from certain areas of school premises
    • Fixed term exclusion
    • Permanent exclusion
  • Specialist organisations to support the anti-bullying policy plus-circle Created with Sketch Beta.

    The Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) (www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk): Founded in 2002 by NSPCC and

    National Children’s Bureau, the Anti-Bullying Alliance (ABA) brings together over 100 organisations into one network to develop and share good practice across the whole range of bullying issues.

    Beatbullying (www.beatbullying.org): A bullying prevention charity with an emphasis on working directly with children and young people. In addition to lesson plans and resources for Parent/Carers, Beatbullying have developed the Cyber mentors peer support programme for young people affected by cyber-bullying.

    Kidscape (www.kidscape.org.uk): Charity established to prevent bullying and promote child protection providing advice for young people, professionals and Parent/Carers about different types of bullying and how to tackle it. They also offer specialist training and support for school staff, and assertiveness training for young people

    Cyber-bullying: ChildNet International (www.childnet.com): Specialist resources for young people to raiseawareness of online safety and how to protect themselves.

    https://www.bullybusters.org.uk/

    We are currently recruiting our next round of Anti-bullying ambassadors who will be trained in a programme developed by The Diana Award.

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