Anti-Bullying Policy Summary for Parents

ANTI-BULLYING POLICY — PARENT SUMMARY Dear , At , we are committed to providing a safe and respectful environment for every student. This summary explains our approach to preventing and addressing bullying. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT IS BULLYING? Bullying is repeated, intentional behaviour that causes harm to another person. It can be: • Physical — hitting, pushing, taking belongings • Verbal — name-calling, threats, insults • Social — exclusion, spreading rumours, embarrassing someone • Online (cyberbullying) — hurtful messages, images, or social media posts One-off incidents are taken seriously but bullying is defined as behaviour that is repeated over time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT THE SCHOOL DOES When bullying is reported: 1. All reports are investigated promptly and confidentially 2. The student making the report is supported immediately 3. Witnesses are spoken to 4. The student(s) responsible are spoken to and given clear consequences 5. Parents of all students involved are notified 6. Follow-up checks are made to ensure the bullying has stopped 7. Support is provided to all students affected ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW TO REPORT Students can report to: • Any teacher or staff member • Their form tutor or head of year • The safeguarding lead: • The worry box in [location] Parents can report to: • Phone: • Email: • Or visit the school office ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT PARENTS CAN DO • Talk to your child about their day — listen for signs of distress • Encourage your child to report bullying — it is not "snitching" • Contact the school if you suspect your child is being bullied • If your child is bullying others, work with the school to address it • Avoid encouraging retaliation — this often makes things worse ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Together, we can ensure is a place where every child feels safe.