Guidance Sent To Teachers Of Pupils In Years 6,7 And 9

When teachers administer this survey with their classes, it would help if they could clarify for the children what constitutes "being picked on" or "bullying" in relation to questions 13 and 14 on the survey form. In asking these questions, we are trying to gauge pupils' perceptions about bullying and racial abuse. We hope you can help pupils understand that the bullying question is not about one single event during 12 months, nor about being occasionally jostled in a corridor, but about being regularly picked on when on school grounds or when outside school, in the community. The question about racial abuse is about single incidents and not solely violent attacks. We know from our own data that over 80% of racial incidents are to do with name calling and so children should be encouraged to think about an incident when they feel they have been picked on in some way or treated differently because of their skin colour or original national background. We hope you will be able to help children with these definitions.

Guidance Sent To Teachers Of Pupils In Year 2

Teachers will need to read the questions to their children. This might be best done in class or smaller groups. In some cases the teacher may wish to read the questions individually to the child. When introducing the questions to their children, teachers should make sure they tell them that there are six questions with three parts each, and that the children should wait until they have heard all the parts of the question before ticking the box which is closest to what the child thinks. The arrangement of responses in the questions about computer access and bullying is different and this should be explained to the class too. The children should also be reminded that work covers all the activities they do in school with their teachers.

When teachers administer this survey with their classes, it would help if they could clarify for the children what constitutes "being picked on" or "someone being unkind" in relation to questions 8 and 9 on the survey form. In asking these questions, we are trying to gauge pupils' perceptions about bullying and racial abuse. We hope you can help pupils understand that the bullying question is not about one single event during 12 months, nor about being occasionally jostled in a corridor, but about being regularly picked on when on school grounds or when outside school, in the community. The question about racial abuse is about single incidents and not solely violent attacks. We know from our own data that over 80% of racial incidents are to do with name calling and so children should be encouraged to think about an incident when they feel that have been picked on in some way or treated differently because of their skin colour or original national background. We hope you will be able to help children with these definitions.