Welcome to The Hub School

Anti-Bullying

Advice for Parents/carers

At The Hub School staff, parents and children work together to create a happy, caring, learning environment where positive relationships are developed and valued.

Bullying, verbal, physical, on-line or indirect will not be tolerated and will always be dealt with quickly, efficiently and sensitively. The School have an anti-bullying coordinator who investigates all allegations or concerns raised in collaboration with school staff and senior leaders. The school's anti-bullying coordinator is Mr Matthews.

It is the responsibility of everyone in school to aim to prevent occurrences of bullying and to deal with any incidents quickly and effectively.

Watching for a pattern

Wanting more / less attention
Not wanting to go to school
Frequent minor illnesses
Coming home with bruises or torn clothing
Possessions disappearing
Becoming withdrawn

What to do

Treat the matter seriously
Keep a diary of incidents
Try and help your child deal with the situation
Do not approach the bully
Do not advise your child to fight back
Contact the school and inform staff of the details

What are the forms of bullying?

There are many different types of bullying that can be experienced by children and adults alike, some are obvious to spot while others can be more subtle. The different types of bullying are shown below:

Physical bullying

Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging property. Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage.

Verbal bullying

Verbal bullying includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist remarks, or verbal abuse. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels which start affecting the individual target.

Social bullying

Social bullying, sometimes referred to as covert bullying, is often harder to recognise and can be carried out behind the bullied person's back. It is designed to harm someone's social reputation and/or cause humiliation. Social bullying includes:

lying and spreading rumours
negative facial or physical gestures, menacing or contemptuous looks
playing nasty jokes to embarrass and humiliate
mimicking unkindly
encouraging others to socially exclude someone
damaging someone's social reputation or social acceptance.

Cyber bullying

Cyber bullying can be overt or covert bullying behaviours using digital technologies, including hardware such as computers and smartphones, and software such as social media, instant messaging, texts, websites and other online platforms.

Cyber bullying can happen at any time. It can be in public or in private and sometimes only known to the target and the person bullying. Cyber bullying can include: