What type of behaviour is bullying?
Bullying can take many forms, such as: • Physical bullying – pushing or hitting someone, damaging their things like their clothes, books or bike, stealing from them or forcing them to hand over their belongings. • Verbal bullying – name calling, spreading rumours, nasty teasing, threats, insults. Sending nasty or threatening e-mails or text messages is also bullying. • Emotional bullying – ignoring or deliberately leaving someone out. Making nasty remarks about someone’s family or home life, or something they can’t help doing. Always criticising or rubbishing everything they do. Making rude gestures or comments. • Prejudice bullying – bullying someone because of the colour of their skin, their religion or their country of origin. Some people might be bullied because they wear glasses or a hearing aid, or just because they look different.
