Anti-Bullying Policy Summary for Parents
A parent-friendly summary of the school's anti-bullying policy covering what constitutes bullying, how to report it, what the school does in response, and how parents can help.
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Greenwood International School ANTI-BULLYING POLICY — PARENT SUMMARY Dear James Thompson, At Greenwood International School, 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: [safeguarding_lead] • The worry box in [location] Parents can report to: • Phone: [reporting_phone] • Email: [reporting_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 Greenwood International School is a place where every child feels safe. Greenwood International School
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A parent-facing summary of the policy: definitions, reporting routes, response times and support available — the key points without the full document.
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Topics this template covers: anti-bullying · school policy · parent information · bullying prevention
How to Use This Template
Address the letter to Parent Name and name the Safeguarding Lead as the first point of contact, with Reporting Phone and Reporting Email visible near the top. Define the behaviour in What Is Bullying using examples pupils recognise — online, verbal, physical, exclusion.
Describe What the School Does in plain steps (report, record, investigate, follow up) and finish What Parents Can Do with concrete actions. Issue at the start of the year alongside the full policy, and repeat the reporting route in every newsletter so reporting never depends on parents finding this one page.
When to Use This Template
Rolling out a new policy
Draft the expectations and consequences, set an effective date, and send the same formatted document to staff and parents so nobody is working from an older version.
Annual policy review
Pull the last version, update the review date and any changed wording, and reissue with a visible revision trail.
Collecting staff acknowledgment
Issue the policy with a signature or acknowledgment section so every member of staff confirms they have read and understood the current version before the effective date.
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