Children will be children and arguments will always happen amongst pupils, but bullying is a longer-term problem and as many as 70% of children report seeing bullying at school. Being a victim or a witness to bullying can affect children’s mental health – and let’s not forget that the perpetrator can be victim too, when you consider the social, economic and environmental factors that might lead a child to lash out in this way.Children will be children and arguments will always happen amongst pupils, but bullying is a longer-term problem and as many as 70% of children report seeing bullying at school. Being a victim or a witness to bullying can affect children’s mental health – and let’s not forget that the perpetrator can be victim too, when you consider the social, economic and environmental factors that might lead a child to lash out in this way.
Here are our ways to build a bullying-free classroom.
Statistics show year on year that more and more children are struggling with their mental health. Whether this is due to a rise in mental illnesses or simply that we are getting better at spotting it, there is something that education professionals have always known – mental health and positive outcomes for our children’s educations are inextricably linked. Simply put, children who are suffering just cannot free up the energy to learn – they are using it all merely surviving. Find out how books are talking about mental health in creative ways.
