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Bullying and Harassment links to Health and Physical Education

Activities & Sessions

Possible Outcomes 

Bodymapping – bullying behaviours

I remember - pages 23-24

Sharing & comparing - page 24

Bullybodies: brainstorming bullying behaviours - pages 24-25

Identifying reasons for bullying - page 26

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices. 
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations. 

Is it OK to tell? Effects of bullying

Is it OK to tell? Effects of bullying - page 27

Sample questions - page 28

Is it OK to tell? (worksheet) - page 29

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

Discrimination game

Brainstorm discrimination - definitions & ‘labels’ - pages 30-31

Grouping - ranking labels - page 31

Pictorial version - page 32

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

Researching bullying

Bullying survey - pages 33-34

Dear Dorrie letters - page 34

Reporting on survey results - page 34

Whole school survey extension task - page 35

Surveys (template) - page 36

Recorders (record sheets) - pages 37-41

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Advice & problem solving

Advice & problem solving - pages 42-43

Sample questions - pages 43-44

Alternative for small group - page 43

Workbook activities: - page 44

• Create comic strips to solve problems

• Role-play a problem being solved

• Write letter, write a song or poem

Role cards (template) - page 45

Health 

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

Speaking up

Exploring the options at this school - page 46

Standing up for yourself - pages 47-48

Ingredients of an apology - pages 48-49

What can the bystander do? - page 50

Health 

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Designing a friendly environment campaign

Designing a friendly environment campaign - page 51

Health

  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

Bullying, harassment, teasing: what does it mean?

Bullying, harassment, teasing: what does it mean? - page 57

‘Being nobody’ poem - page 58

Giving voice (worksheet) - page 59

Giving voice using poem (worksheet) - page 60

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices. 
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.
  • Adolescents can meet their specific nutritional needs through eating foods that reflect the dietary guidelines.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Bundling & cluster mapping

How to - pages 61-62

Bundling and cluster mapping (worksheet) - page 63

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

What do poets say?

Small groups - page 64

Whole class - read poems, compare and discuss - page 64

Jumbled poems  (template) - page 66

Original poems (handout) - page 67 

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Reading activity – let’s tell a story

What is the message? - pages 68-69

How is it said? - page 69

Brainstorm - how to pass messages on to younger kids - page 70

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Writing for purpose & audience – let’s make a story

Discussing bullying - pages 71-72

Getting started - page 72

Let’s make a story (handout) - page 73

Brainstorm! (record sheet) - page 74

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Let’s make a story

Developing their story - page 75 - Writing a story for younger children, illustrating and sharing

Completing the story - page 75

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

What do the newspapers say?

Read it, talk about it - page 76

Comprehension questions - page 77

Improvise a play about it! - page 78

Newspaper articles (handout) - page 79

Improvise a play (scenarios handout) - page 80

Health

  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Inform, explain, instruct – tell it as it is

Preparing a short talk - page 81

Inform, explain, instruct (handout) - page 82

Prompt cards (handout) - page 83

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Status

Warm-up games - pages 90-91

Power pairs - bullying tableaux - pages 91-92

‘Human Guinea Pig’ scenarios - page 92

Sample questions - page 93

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Scenes from stories

Warm-up games - pages 94-95

Storytelling - remember and visualise - pages 95-96

Collecting material - sharing stories - page 96

Making a scene from a story - page 96

Coaching for liberation - page 97

Workbook - letters of advice/journal writing - page 98

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Belonging

Warm-up games - page 99

Greetings game - mingle and greet - page 100

Conflict of wants - acting exercise - pages 100-101

Enter new kid - small group improvisation - pages 101-102

Mask it, move it - page 102

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships. 
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

The Inside story

Warm-up games - page 103

Inside the bully - sub-text exercise - page 104

Inside/outside - creating tableaux and a text collage - page 105

Creating a text collage - page 105

Sample questions - page 106

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.

Standing up for yourself

Warm-up games - pages 107-108

Paired protests - role-play assertiveness - pages 108-109

Hidden thoughts - a technique for exploring sub-text - page 109

Health

  • Health has physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual dimensions, which are dynamic, interrelated and interdependent.
  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships. 
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.

Fantasy – reality – nightmare

Warm-up games - pages 110-111

Nightmare-fantasy-reality - page 111

Personal development

  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships.
     

Group project – design a drama

Group project - design a drama - pages 112-113

Use naturalistic and anti-naturalistic techniques to devise a short drama on the theme of bullying (several lessons)

Ideas for student feedback - page 113

Health

  • The interaction between personal, social, cultural and environmental factors influences health behaviours, including nutrition and physical activity choices.
  • Individual, group and community action, that enables people to adopt health promotion strategies, can address inequities and promote health and wellbeing, including safety.

Personal development

  • Identity, health and wellbeing are interdependent and influenced by social and cultural factors.
  • Effective communication skills, including reflective listening, considering alternative views, respecting cultural protocols and expressing ideas in a way that is sensitive to others, help people establish and maintain relationships. 
  • Conflict resolution strategies, including negotiation, are used to manage intrapersonal and interpersonal situations.