Countering Bullying

Bullying has become recognized as one of the major issues facing schools in the 1990s. There has always been bullying in schools and no school is exempt from the problem. But teachers and others working in education underestimated its extent and severity and their own responsibility to counter it. In this book 20 schools give sound and practical guidance on how they countered bullying and reduced its incidence. It describes how they used a range of strategies including videos, workpacks, plays and poems, projects and themes for morning assembly, to influence pupil's attitudes towards bullying. The schools come from the maintained and non-maintained sectors and cover the full range - urban and rural schools, single sex and denominational schools and schools serving multi-ethnic communities. The different approaches adopted by the schools are grouped within the five themes: management, the curriculum, transition, agency support and local education authorities.