Lesson video

Hi, I'm Ms. Lowe, and I'm your RSHE teacher for today.

Thank you so much for choosing to complete your learning with me.

Today's lesson is all about the impact of bullying and because of the themes and the topics that we're gonna cover today, it's important that you complete your learning with the company of an adult.

So here it is our outcome for today's lesson.

And by the end, you are gonna be able to explain the impact of bullying on the victim, the perpetrator, and those around.

Every RSHE lesson should begin with a set of ground rules.

This ensures that every conversation had in RSHE is respectful and we're all able to learn effectively.

So Laura is reminding us that in RSHE, we should listen to others.

It's okay to disagree with each other, but we should listen properly before making assumptions or deciding how to respond.

And when disagreeing, we challenge the statement and not the person.

Andeep is reminding us to respect privacy.

We can discuss examples, but we don't use names or descriptions that can identify anyone including ourselves.

Izzy is reminding us to choose a level of participation that suits us.

Everyone has the right to choose not to answer a question or to join in a discussion, but we never put anyone on the spot.

And finally, Jacob is reminding us that in RSHE, there is no judgement.

We can explore beliefs and misunderstandings about a topic without the fear of being judged.

So let's have a look at our key words for today's lesson.

Our first key word is bullying, behaviour which is intended to hurt someone emotionally or physically.

Victim, a person who is harmed as a result of another's actions.

Perpetrator, an individual who has committed a harmful act.

And finally bystander, someone who witnesses something.

So here is our outline for today's lesson, and we're gonna begin by asking the question, what impact can bullying have on the victim? So bullying can happen in person or online, and regardless of where it happens, it can have a serious impact on the victim.

Lucas says here, "These impacts are not only felt immediately, bullying can also impact a person for a long time.

In some very serious cases, this impact could last for a person's whole life." Let's pause here and let's check our understanding.

Bullying can have a lasting impact on the victim that could potentially affect them their whole life.

Let's pause the video here and tell me is that true or false? Really well done if you said true.

Yeah, bullying can have an impact on a victim that is immediate.

It could be long term, and in very serious cases it can last the person's whole life.

So bullying can have an emotional impact on the victim.

And what we mean by that is that bullying can make a person develop low self-esteem so they can feel badly about themselves and their ability to do things.

If a bully is saying harmful things about a person's appearance, their abilities or personality, the victim might actually start to believe these harmful things about themselves.

Jun is telling us here that an emotional impact on a victim can make them lose confidence and stop being themselves.

They might even start to think that everyone around them feels that way about them, which can cause them to withdraw from friends and family and can make them feel much more isolated.

Bullying can also have a psychological impact on the victim.

And what we mean by this is that bullying can lead to serious mental health conditions.

Things like anxiety or depression, even eating disorders.

Dr.

Elsie says that mental health conditions like this can lead to someone not looking after themselves properly and engaging in harmful behaviours towards themselves.

Now, if somebody is struggling with a serious mental health condition, it's really important that they speak to a trusted adult and a medical professional because they can support them.

Now, bullying can also cause issues in school or at work for the victim.

If the bullying occurs in or is done by someone at work or school, victims are then gonna have trouble concentrating or even begin to avoid attending work or school in order to avoid the bully.

And this may affect the victim's work at school or their ability to do their job.

And this means that the bullying has had a significant impact on the victim's life.

Let's pause here and let's check our understanding.

How does bullying impact the victim at work or school? Well, lets the pause the video and read through those three options and then we'll come together in a moment and talk about the right answer.

Really well done if you said A, it can cause trouble concentrating.

Bullying does not improve academical or work performance.

It actually makes it worse.

It makes the victim struggle to focus on their work at school or the work at their job, and it actually decreases a victim's attendance because they might avoid going to work or school in order to avoid the bully.

So well done if you said A.

So bullying may also cause physical impact on the victim.

Dr.

Elsie says, "The stress and upset that are caused by bullying can lead to long-term stress, which can then lead to headaches, stomach problems, and insomnia or difficulty sleeping." Bullying can also have a social impact on the victim, and this is because victims may struggle to form or maintain close relationships as a result of bullying.

They might avoid social situations and even withdraw from their usual lives and activities because they have developed a lack of trust in other people.

Laura is telling us here that bullying can make a victim worry about how others will perceive or treat them, which is gonna make them less likely to try and form new friendships.

And it can lead to a feeling of loneliness and isolation as they may pull themselves away from existing friendships or relationships.

Bullying can have a long lasting impact on the victim.

Dr.

Elsie says here that none of these impacts just go away with time.

In fact, if a person is bullied during their younger years, they're more likely to face mental health conditions and impacts on their social lives when they get older.

The amount of bullying or amount of time they experienced it can lead to a victim facing more significant problems when they get older.

Now, what I want for you to do is we're gonna pause here.

I'm gonna check our understanding and you are gonna rewrite this sentence so that it's correct.

It currently says the impact of bullying is only short term.

It doesn't impact people later in life and doesn't cause serious mental or physical health conditions.

So you're gonna pause the video here and rewrite that sentence for me.

So you might have written, the impact of bullying can be long term.

It can impact people later in life and cause serious mental and physical health conditions.

Now we're gonna put our learning into practise.

And what I want for you to do is around this image, I would like for you to label five impacts of bullying on the victim.

So pause the video here, do your labelling, and then we'll go through what you might have written together.

Great work, so you were asked to around the image label five impacts of bullying on the victim.

And you might have added that bullying can lead to issues in school or work.

Bullying can make the victim withdraw from family or friends.

The impacts of bullying can last a lifetime and lead to mental health conditions later in life.

Bullying can cause low self-esteem and cause the victim to believe the harmful things that are said about them.

And bullying can cause serious mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression.

Well done if you mentioned any of those things while you were writing your labels.

We're moving on now to the second part of our lesson, but we're asking the question, what impact can bullying have on the perpetrator? So when we talk about the perpetrator, we are talking about the person who engages in bullying behaviours.

And they aren't immune from having an effect caused by bullying.

The perpetrator can also experience negative impacts on their own lives.

And this is especially true if the bullying behaviours that they're showing are not challenged.

Ms. Walsh here says, "If the perpetrator is not challenged on their behaviour or does not correct it, they might become more aggressive and antisocial." And this can lead perpetrators to wrongly believe that their behaviour is okay and it's a way for them to get what they want.

This behaviour might then spill into other areas of their lives that other relationships and lead to harmful or abusive behaviour later in life.

Perpetrators may struggle to build positive or meaningful relationships with other people.

Ms. Walsh here tells us that bullying can lead to or caused by a lack of empathy or ability to connect with others on an emotional level.

These things are essential for building positive relationships with other people.

Perpetrators who engage in bullying at a young age may become involved in even more harmful behaviour when they get older.

Police officer Paula here is telling us that early forms of aggressive or anti-social behaviour in the way of bullying may make a perpetrator more likely to engage in dangerous activities when they get older.

So we can see here can't we, that the impact on the perpetrator is also something that can have a long lasting effect.

Perpetrators may also experience issues at school or work.

Police officer Paula here tells us that bullying is not tolerated at school or work.

And if someone engages in this behaviour, they may face disciplinary procedures that result in things like removal from school, so exclusion or losing their jobs.

Perpetrators may also struggle with friendship.

Izzy here says that they may struggle with their own personal relationships because ultimately people might not want to associate with someone who bullies others and therefore they try to avoid them.

And a lack of meaningful positive social relationships can really lead to a person feeling isolated and alone.

Perpetrators might also experience mental health conditions.

Ms. Walsh here says that bullying can often be the result of low self-esteem or internal anger about issues occurring in their own lives.

If someone is struggling with either of these things, the answer is to never take it out on someone else.

What they should do instead is to speak to a medical professional or a trusted adult to get support.

Now let's pause here and let's check our understanding.

Which of the following is an impact that bullying can have on the perpetrator? I want you to read through those three options, come up with the right answer, and then we'll discuss it together.

Really well done if you said B.

Yes, increased likelihood of engaging in future harmful behaviour is an impact that the perpetrator can face as a result of bullying behaviours.

And now we're gonna put our learning into practise.

So with the person next to you, I'd like you to discuss the impact that bullying can have on the perpetrator.

And in your discussions, I want you to consider, aggressive and anti-social behaviour, future behaviours, school and work, and then friendships and connections.

So you're gonna pause the video and have those discussions now, and then we'll have a look at what you might have said in just a moment.

Great work, so you were asked to discuss with the person next to you the impact that bullying can have on the perpetrator.

And you might have said that the perpetrator might become more aggressive and antisocial.

If these behaviours are not challenged or corrected, they could escalate into even more harmful behaviour in the future and result in the bully becoming involved in even more dangerous activities or behaviours.

Perpetrators may face disciplinary procedures at school or work and lead to being removed from school or even losing their jobs.

Perpetrators may struggle to form meaningful friendships or connections with others as people may be cautious of being associated with someone who treats others poorly.

And we're moving on now to the final part of our lesson where we're asking the question, what is a bystander? So a bystander is someone who witnesses bullying and depending on the way that they react, this depends on the type of bystander they are.

So a passive bystander is someone who witnesses bullying and does nothing to stop it.

Whereas an active bystander is someone who will take steps to stop the bullying or support the victim.

Now here we have a conversation between Aisha and Laura, and what I want for you to do is read through what they're saying to each other and tell me the type of bystander that they are describing.

So pause the video here.

Great work.

Let's have a look at the correct answers.

So Aisha is saying someone who thinks bullying is not their problem when it happens to someone else.

And this is of course a passive bystander.

Laura says, "Someone who tells a trusted adult when they see bullying and then asks the victim if they are okay." And this of course is an active bystander.

Well done if you've got those two answers correct.

So although a bystander might not be involved in bullying as directly as the perpetrator, if someone witnesses bullying and does nothing, what they're doing is reinforcing the bully's behaviour.

Because what they're saying is, what you are doing is okay.

And I have no reason to step in and stop it.

Ms. Walsh says that seeing the bullying and not speaking out is essentially telling the perpetrator you don't have a problem with what they're doing, and you are also making the victim feel even more isolated and alone.

So there are different ways that a bystander could stand up against bullying.

First, they could speak up if they feel safe to do so, by telling the perpetrator that what they're doing is wrong.

They could refuse to join in if the perpetrator is asking them to.

They could speak to the perpetrator privately and ask them if they need support for the way that they're feeling and why they're taking it out on other people.

And then somebody could speak to the victim and offer support.

Speaking out against bullying can be difficult and it can be scary to do because bullying creates a culture of fear for everyone involved.

Ms. Walsh here tells us that if you don't feel confident or safe to speak out at the moment or to the perpetrator directly, you can speak to a trusted adult and report the incident.

You could also report and block any bullying that you witness online.

It is everyone's responsibility to stand up to bully, and it is not just the victims. If we want to all make an active effort to stand up to harmful behaviour when we witness it, we can help protect the victim and prevent other people from potentially having to experience bullying too.

Let's pause here and let's check our understanding.

Bullying creates a culture of what? Well done if you said fear.

Yeah, absolutely.

Bullying creates a culture of fear.

And this is one of the reasons that some people feel concerned, scared, or worried to speak up when they witness bullying.

But remember, if you witness bullying and you don't feel safe to speak up at the time, you can always report what you've witnessed to a trusted adult.

You could even go to the victim at a later point and ask them if they're okay.

Now we're gonna put our learning into practise.

So for the following scenario, I'd like you to explain what a passive bystander would do.

And what an active bystander would do.

So the scenario says, "Julia has been experiencing bullying at school.

The perpetrator has been making fun of Julia's accent and calling her names.

Sometimes the perpetrator asks other people to join in and tries to make Julia feel isolated at school." And then I would like you to tell me that for each of your responses, I'd like you to tell me what might happen as a result.

So what might happen as a result of a passive bystander witness in this? And what might happen as a result of an active bystander witness in this? You're gonna pause the video and write down your answers.

Great work, so you were asked for that following scenario involving Julia, to explain what a passive and active bystander would do.

So you might have written that a passive bystander would ignore it and think that it isn't their problem.

They wouldn't tell the perpetrator to stop and wouldn't reach out to Julia and offer her support.

An active bystander would not join in with bullying Julia.

They would tell the perpetrator to stop if they felt safe to do so, or report it to a trusted adult.

They might also reach out to Julia and offer her support.

You were also asked to say what might happen as a result.

So the result of the passive bystander would be that the perpetrator thinks that other people don't disagree with what they're saying or doing and continue to do it.

They might even do it to others, and it will also make Julia feel more isolated and alone.

The result of the active bystander would be that the perpetrator has their behaviour challenged either by the bystander or a trusted adult that they report it to.

Julia would also feel like there are people to support her and would feel less isolated and alone at school.

Now we're gonna end today's lesson with a summary of what we've learned.

So bullying can lead to several impacts on the victim.

These impacts can be long-term and lead to victims experiencing serious mental health conditions.

There are also impacts on the perpetrator, including potential increased aggression and antisocial behaviour if unchecked.

Bullying can create a culture of fear and prevent bystanders from feeling confident enough to speak out against it.

It is everyone's responsibility to stand up to bullying.

If you ever witness bullying online or in person, you should report it to a trusted adult.

Report it on the site that it occurred, if online, and reach out to the victim to offer them support.

Now, if any of the issues that we've covered in today's lesson affect you in any way, or you have any concerns, here are some places you can go to to access support.

First, we have Childline, a website and phone line, which is able to offer confidential advice and support.

And CEOP, which helps protect children from online abuse and exploitation.

And I'd like to end today's lesson by saying a huge well done for all of your fantastic work, and I look forward to seeing you in another RSHE lesson soon.