Argyll and Bute’s Anti-Bullying Policy may be viewed at: https://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/sites/default/files/anti-bullying_policy_july_2019.pdf
Craignish Primary School strives to ensure that bullying does not occur within the school.
Bullying is the willful, conscious desire, time and again, to hurt, threaten or frighten individuals unable to defend themselves.
Bullying can take several forms:-
Verbal nasty names, nasty comments, nasty notes
Social being left out of things, no-one talking to you, nasty rumours
Material having things stolen or damaged, being forced to give money
Mental being threatened, being made to behave like everyone else
Physical being hit and hurt
AIMS OF ANTI-BULLYING STRATEGIES
* To foster an ethos throughout the school where bullying is recognised as unacceptable.
* To encourage pupils to tell a member of staff.
* To encourage pupils to support others who are being bullied.
* To seek reconciliation between the two parties.
* To encourage the bullying child to see the situation from the bullied child’s point of view.
* To give bullied children support and self-confidence.
* To stop the bullying, but also to identify why the bullying child is doing this and to support a change in their pattern of behaviour.
* To give opportunities to peer groups to help put things right.