Speak Out Stop Bullying 2008: Speaking out at Chad Vale Primary to tackle scourge of bullying
PUPILS at Chad Valley Primary School know that speaking out is the best way to stop bullying.
“If I knew someone was being bullied I would tell a teacher, or a parent or ChildLine,” said ten-year-old Grace Meredith. “I would tell someone. Then they can tell them off and you can be friends.”
Friend Leo Van Zeller, aged nine, said: “Bullying is hitting someone, picking on them or being horrible. If someone was bullied I would tell a teacher. If I was sad I could call ChildLine.”
And nine-year-old Jacob Dhariwal added: “I wouldn’t like it if I was bullied. I would be sad. If I knew someone was being bullied I would say to the bully that they shouldn’t do it and I would tell a teacher.”
Pupils at the school have also been telling ChildLine their own anti-bullying messages.
Together with ChildLine in Partnerships co-ordinator Leesa Mullins and volunteer Carol Lyndon, they made a DVD to be shown to the charity’s trustees.
“We went outside and we filmed lots of different stories of bullies,” said nine-year-old Amreen Jaspal. “The stories were about bullies in school. It was fun.”
In the film, the message was to inform an adult should bullying occur.
“If someone is being bullied then you have to tell someone,” said nine-year-old Lydia Kendall. “Bullying can be hurting someone and it can be teasing them a lot. But if you tell a teacher they can do something.”
Classmate Aman Johal, also aged nine, added: “All the children in one class did the DVD. We all got into a line and got to pretend to call ChildLine with our problems. It was really good.”
