2 | Lauryn Peters
November 1, 2010 at 4:25 pm

To help educate children about bullying is wrong and what to do you could have older pupils to teach them and also have a box so if and person is being bullied they can write i there secretly.

olivia mcewan
November 11, 2010 at 8:16 pm

i agree with lauryn

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12 | Caitlin Price
November 1, 2010 at 8:03 pm

I think that to help the anti-bullying campaign at Ashlawn we could have a team skills building day, to raise funds for someone to come in to school and do an assembly on bullying to create awareness.

14 | Isabel McGhee
November 2, 2010 at 5:02 pm

Hi Mr.Kelly
I think bullying is horrible and I’ve been bullied before just because ofwhat I was wearing! Can we do a cake sale and make anti bullying cakes. All the money we raise could go to help stop bullying.

16 | Ella Rogers
November 2, 2010 at 8:43 pm

Hello Mr Kelly
In class when we watched the video about the dad lecturing in schools about his son, I think it made all the kids listening realise how serious bullying actually is. That is why i think we should raise money somehow to get someone like that in to talk to the school.

18 | Courtney Marsden
November 3, 2010 at 1:40 pm

Hey mr kelly i think bullying is wrong so i think that if everybody in year 7 makes a video on how bad bullying actually is

20 | Grace Cooper
November 3, 2010 at 5:02 pm

I think we should have a day where we all have a non-school uniform day and some of us make cakes and ice them to say thing’s about bullying and all the lesson’s can invole bullying of somesort so say if you had art you would do a poster about bullying or if you had maths you could do “if there were 7 bullie’s and 3 victim’s what is the ratio or if you had English you could write a poem about bullie’s
and we can raise money at the same time!

hasan mahmood
November 3, 2010 at 8:54 pm

hi MR.KELLY I KNOW BULLING SHOULD NOT GO ON AND WHO IS DOING IT SHOULD GET KICKED OUT OF SCHOOL AND I REALY LIKE THIS SCHOOL

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28 | Isabel Morriss
November 6, 2010 at 5:04 pm

I agree with Jack Unett’s comment. I myself have been bullied and I wish their would have been somewhere for me to go with other people who where in my situation and just talk about our experience and maybe even learn way’s we can stop it. Maybe do a bake sale or a fund-raiser to go towards hiring someone you has been in our shoes and know how to help.

30 | Cara Knight
November 7, 2010 at 6:58 pm

maybe we could have a day at ashlawn where we can wear a color (anything) that represents bulling and we could pay £1 to do so then give the money to a anti-bulling charity

32 | nina geddis
November 8, 2010 at 8:23 am

bullying should be stoped because it is an extemily bad thing for a child to go through, as I know for my self. There are many types of bullying and they should all be stoped. Here are some exaples:
phisical abuse
cyber bullying
mental abuse
nasty things about members of your family
over all bullying is a bad !

34 | Caitlin Price
November 8, 2010 at 4:16 pm

I feel that bullying is a very serious subject that needs to be tackled at every school. To help stop it I feel we should have someone who is designated to help and listen to children in that type of situation.

36 | Samuel O'Neill
November 8, 2010 at 4:24 pm

Hey guys,
I think that in every PSHE class doing this topic, we should make a classwide video where we could act out someone being bullied then have someone else trying to stop it and help the bullied person. Then we could post the video on the Ashlawn website.

66 | Jack Carter
November 15, 2010 at 6:26 pm

i know its alot and there are no pictures but these are a list of over 150 children/ teenagers that have killed themselves

Lancashire: The first recognised bullycide of Steven Shepherd in the strawberry Fields at Newburgh, Lancashire in 1967.

In April 1998, Brian Franklish died whilst trying to escape the children bullying him.

Yorkshire: Twelve-year-old Debbie Shaw agrees to a challenge by other girls to end her bullying and victimisation by fighting the school bully. She died of her injuries.

Thirteen-year-old Roger Hillyard found dead near his home after a lifetime of bullying.

Sisters Samantha and Michaela Kendal are so taunted and bullied about their overweight they go on hunger strike … both died.

Burton-upon-Trent: Fifteen-year-old choirboy Darren Steele is found hanged in his bedroom after a life of bullying and victimisation at school.

West Midlands: Twelve-year-old schoolboy Stephen Woodhall hanged himself with his brother’s school tie rather than face bullying by the school bullies for another day. “He must have been going through hell,” his father, Ken, said. Later, forty-seven-year-old Kenneth Woodhall also hanged himself. He had never got over the hanging suicide five years earlier of his son Stephen.

* In September 1997, 13-year-old Salvation Army girl Kelly Yeomans took a fatal overdose after months of tormenting and bullying. Her bullies were given a slap on the wrist.

Stephen Sandon, six, collapsed and died in terror of a bully pack almost a year to the day after the death of Joanna Canlin in the same tough schoolyard.

* Isle of Lewis: In February 1996 Katherine Jane Morrison, 16, takes a fatal overdose after horrendous bullying.

Isle of Lewis: Fifteen-year-old Marianne Bisenieks dies of an overdose. She is said to have been bullied at the same school as Katherine Jane Morrison

Ireland: fourteen-year-old Kurt Cobain shoots himself to escape the local bully boys.

Vijay Singh Shahiri wrote heartbreaking poems about his schoolyard tormentors, then hanged himself.

* Belfast: In January 1995 Marie McGovern overdoses after bullying. Her diaries recorded a life of day-to-day terror.

* Cheshire: Sixteen-year-old bully victim Lucy Forrester electrocutes herself by throwing a copper wire over the live lines of the local railway track. Lucy’s parents have set up a charity VISYON in her memory.

* Lancashire: In September 1994 Lynette McLaughlin hanged herself with her own dressing gown cord because of bullying.

Fourteen-year-old Amanda Brownridge overdosed because of bullying.

Schoolgirl dancer Kelly Farrar, 13, killed herself with her father’s heart pills after telling friends she’d been teased at school.

Surrey: Mark MacLaglan hanged himself from a tree because of bullying.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Teenage cyclist Mark Perry risked the road to escape a gang of bullies. He died under the wheels of a truck. Mark’s death lead to the setting up of theAnti-Bullying Campaign.

Kent: Child prodigy James Lambeth, 16, bullied because of his genius, gassed himself in his father’s car.

An un-named Asian boy is knifed to death in a suicidal bid to stand up against the bullies who had made his life hell.

London: Eleven-year-old Martin Harvey, a long-time victim, collapsed and died when a bully gang charged him in the playground.

* Leeds: Daniel Overfield, 12, hangs himself, unable to cope with a hand-written insult.

* Argyll, Scotland: Neil Ross, 17, hangs himself in the school grounds during Christmas holidays after bully torment resulting from an alleged petty theft of just ten pounds.

* Belfast: in April 2000 Denise Baillie, 14, dies from taking pills after horrific bully campaign against her. [More]

Cheshire: Mark Harvey, 15, died after refusing to run away and being beaten by a bully gang outside school.

Surrey: Peter Evans, 11, is crushed under the wheels of a lorry trying to escape a bully gang.

Hampshire: Fourteen-year-old Tom Brough hanged himself. Witnesses at his inquest admit to having been part of a bully campaign against him.

Six-year-old Matthew Bibby risks the busy rush hour road rather than the bullies and is killed by a car as he tries to escape them.

Fourteen-year-old Bryan Frankish is killed escaping a school bully gang on a friend’s motorbike.

Mid-Glamorgan: Jamie Evans, 14, hangs himself with his belt after long-term school bullying culminated in the shaving off of one of his eyebrows.

Scotland: Suzie Barclay takes an overdose of pills after vicious playground taunts … five months after another girl at her school narrowly escaped an overdose death to end her own bully torment.:

* Gloucestershire: Young sportsman and musician David Tuck hangs himself after refusing to attend first day of term because of bullying.

Fife: George Goodall, 13, is killed by a police car as he dashes across a road to escape pursuing bullies.: Just a week before George Goodall’s death, 12-year-old Michael Gourley, was bullied into playing chicken on a busy motorway. He was also run over and killed by a police car.

Seven-stone Daniel Mole is chased and beaten by the thug who had bullied him throughout his school life. He died falling from a roof in an attempt to escape. It was his 21st birthday.

Lanarkshire: A 12-year-old pupil at a top fee-paying school hanged himself from a tree to escape merciless bullying.

Wales: Jemma Brine-Daniels, 14, dies of overdose after being bullied at school … by teachers.

Alistair Hunter, aged 12, hanged himself after a campaign of bullying which involved him being spat upon and bullies urinating in his sports bag.

Nine-year-old Neil Gadd chooses the main road rather than face bullies blocking the subway pass. He’s knocked down and killed.

* Manchester: Eight-year-old Marie Bentham hangs herself in her bedroom with her skipping rope because she can no longer face the bullies at school. Marie is thought to be Britain’s youngest bullycide.

Merthyr Tydfill, South Wales: Anthony Hutchinson jumps off a window ledge and later dies in his bedroom after being bullied by other pupils because he was coloured.

* In January 2000 Danielle Goss is the first bullycide of the New Millennium after a campaign of bullying which included abusive messages on her mobile phone.

* West Midlands teacher Jean Evans hangs herself after unrelenting bullying by pupils and lack of support from the head teacher. The deputy head teacher also committed suicide shortly afterwards.

October 2000: 15-year-old Gail Jones from Tranmere, Merseyside, takes an overdose of paracetamol after a long campaign of bullying, harassment and threat via her mobile phone.

14 February 2001: 10-year-old Jevan Richardson hangs himself at his home in Lewisham yesterday after being expelled from St Mary Magdelene’s Catholic Primary School, Brockley. In a suicide note, Jevan wrote “I can’t get anything right. I’m always wrong. I just want to die and I’m going to hang myself.”. Lewisham Council have refused to comment. Chair of governors Don Mahony raised doubts about the competency of headteacher Carmelita Winston when he wrote to Jevan’s parents stating that the presence of their son at the school was “damaging to the health and welfare of the headteacher Carmelita Winston”. See report inThe Observer. Teachers and lecturers are the largest group of callers to the UK National Workplace Bullying Advice Line; in most cases the reported bully is the head teacher with the behavior profile of a serial bully.

7 March 2001: 13-year-old Eminen fan Kayleigh Davies hangs herself in her bedroom on 20 December 2000. Central Hampshire coroner Grahame Short recorded a verdict of suicide after hearing how that Kayleigh had been sent home from Alderman Quilley School in the morning of the last day of term by headmaster Kenneth Button for drinking alcohol. Mr Dawes told the coroner that because of bullying, Kayleigh had been moved from Crestwood School in Eastleigh to nearby Alderman Quilley where, after an initial period of calm, experienced bullying again.

23 June 2001: Nicola Raphael, 15, died after taking an overdose of painkillers at her home in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. She had been the target of bullying for some time. The bullies at Lenzie Academy had speciously used her style of dress – which they labelled “Gothic” – as a rationalisation for their violence towards her and had branded her “a freak”. A spokeswoman for East Dunbartonshire Council said that “Nicola was part of a group within the school which did receive unwanted attention from other pupils and where incidents were reported and names provided, investigations were carried out and appropriate action taken.” [Statement from Nicola's Mum]

20 September 2001: 14-year-old Laura Grimes committed suicide by taking an overdose of painkillers after being bullied at school and rejected by friends. Avon and District coroner Paul Forrest described Laura’s case as “one of the most distressing I have come across in 20 years”. Laura took a massive overdose of Co-proxamol painkillers after leaving eleven suicide notes. Headmaster of Mangotsfield School, Derek Hall, said that the school had a very strict policy on bullying, and that Laura had never complained of bullying to her tutor, head of year, or to her large number of friends. Laura had not told her parents of her ordeal (the reasons why children don’t tell their parents about being bullied are revealed in Bullycide: death at playtime). [More]

27 November 2001: fifteen-year-old Elaine Swift died from an overdose of painkillers after a campaign of bullying, harassment and assault which started after she was featured in the media for having donated bone marrow to her younger sister who was suffering from leukaemia. Elaine’s parents say that they were let down by the LEA who failed to take her allegations seriously. The bullying comprised daily verbal harassment and taunting, and on one occasion a lighted match was thrown into her hair, which caught fire. The situation had become so untenable that Elaine was moved from Brierton School in Hartlepool last year. Head teacher of Brierton School Stuart Priestley stated that his school had a “rigorous anti-bullying policy” and that every incident of bullying that was reported was investigated. Bill Jordon, head teacher at Elaine’s new school, Dyke House in Hartlepool, said that he was satisfied with steps taken to deal with bullying claims made by Elaine. Hartlepool’s assistant director of education Adrienne Simcock asserted “I am confident that the school has acted properly and taken all the appropriate steps when investigating the claims.” Elaine died after an emergency liver transplant failed to reverse the effects of 100 paracetamol tablets taken over a period of a fortnight. [More: The Times]

21 November 2001: an inquest has been opened into the suicide of 13-year-old Nottingham teenager Morgan Musson who was found dead in her bed on 15 November. Morgan’s mother, Debra Savage, claimed that her daughter had been taunted and bullied by girls from Ellis Guilford School in Nottingham for seven months and that the school had not done enough to deal with the bullying. Nottingham LEA said they had taken action but there was no evidence to suggest that the bullying amounted to anything more than verbal abuse. Ellis Guilford headmaster Peter Plummer declined to comment. [More: BBC News Online | The Times | Ananova]
Update 20 February 2002: the inquest on 13-year-old Morgan Musson has returned an open verdict as the coroner could not satisfy himself that she intended to kill herself. Unlike a physical injury or physical cause of death, a psychiatric injury cannot be studied and recorded after death. All the coroner has is (sometimes) the suicide letter and (always) the denial of everyone who contributed to the bullycide: the bullies, the witnesses of bullying, and those in authority who should have acted but didn’t. Greater weight is often attached to these denials than to the written and reported testimony of the deceased who has been tormented to death and to the deceased’s family who have lived (and continue to live) the nightmare. An open verdict, which may be legally correct, neither relieves the suffering of the family nor does it enable the perpetrators to be held accountable for their sins of commission and omission. [Ananova]

5 March 2002: an inquest on 15-year-old Hannah Taylerson has returned a verdict of “self-harm”. Hannah hanged herself with her school tie after having problems at school which included peers talking about her behind her back. Previously Hannah had visited her doctor with self-inflicted cuts which she told him were due to problems at school, John Cabot City Technology College in Bristol, England. Hannah had recently visited school counsellors but had apparently not told them about bullying. Recording his verdict, Bristol coroner Paul Forrest said: “This girl had problems with friends and her boyfriend and she took her own life.” [BBC News Online]

13 April 2002: 13-year-old Laura Kilibarda was found hanged in her home at Lisvane, near Cardiff, after complaining about being bullied at school. [Details] At Laura’s inquest on 23 October 2002 police said they found no evidence of bullying, but her parents suspect otherwise after talking to Laura’s friends. [More]

18 April 2002: 14-year-old Adam Grigg hanged himself with a lanyard from his sea cadet’s uniform after three years of bullying which started at Broadgate Primary School, Horsforth, Leeds, and continued when he moved to Horsforth School. Adam was described as a quiet, sensitive child who loved to play with computers and his pet dog. He was looking forward to a career in the Royal Navy. Instead he endured three years of being spat at, beaten up and had threatening notes written in his school books which culminated in his suicide to escape the violence. [More]

4 August 2002: an inquest in Whitby heard how 13-year-old Jack Glasby hung himself after being bullied at Caedmon School, Whitby, Yorkshire, which he had left five months previously. As a study by Kidscape found, the cumulative psychiatric injury caused by bullying at school endures, often throughout life. Problems started in February 2001 when another pupil hung Jack over a stairwell and said he would drop him. Caedmon School headteacher Tony Hewitt told the inquest strategies to help Jack were offered by the school and stressed that all incidents of bullying, however minor, were dealt with and documented. [More]

13 September 2002: 12-year-old Emma Morrison was found hanging in the bedroom of her Edinburgh home after being subjected to a campaign of verbal and physical abuse by school bullies at Broughton High School. [Scotsman | Daily Telegraph | Daily Record ]

23 October 2002: 14-year-old Scott Young dies in road traffic accident after running across road to escape from bully Yannick Etutu. Yannick Etutu is jailed for manslaughter. [More]

7 March 2003: 12-year-old Natalie Ruddick is murdered by an intruder in her bedroom after skipping school because of bullying. Natalie was a pupil at All Saints’ College in Newcastle which recently made headlines for adopting a “zero tolerance” policy on bad behaviour, with 114 pupils suspended and four expelled. “Natalie was one of those kids who loved going to school,” said family friend Dawn Pattison. “But she had been getting bullied recently.” [More]

15 April 2003: 14-year-old Jade Hughes was found hanged on a Swansea footbridge over a railway line not far from where her classmate at Pentrehafod Comprehensive School Kirsty Botto was found hanged in her bedroom. Police quickly deny that bullying was a factor but as in the case of Laura Kilibarda the secretive nature of bullying means that the cause is not always obvious. [More | More | Inquest]

17 April 2003: 15-year-old Sarah Harrison from Mapperley in Nottinghamshire, England, hanged herself at a Nottingham children’s home after enduring months of bullying. Sarah had wanted to be a model. [More]

6 June 2003: Karl Peart, 16, from Lynemouth, Northumberland, was repeatedly picked on because he was intelligent, considerate and refused to join street gangs. Karl planned his own funeral before taking an overdose of painkillers with alcohol. [More | More]

17 June 2003: Gemma Dimmick, 15, who attended Karl Peart’s school (Hirst High School, Ashington, Northumberland, England), is believed to have taken an overdose after writing several notes [More]

30 June 2003: Oliver Sabine, 17, is found hanged after suffering years of bullying which left him scared to go out. [More]
In February 2005 an inquiry into death of Oliver Sabine finds “no evidence” despite years of bullying, a broken nose and the theft of five of Oliver’s bikes; parents view school’s attitude as being that Oliver’s death was “a bit of a nuisance”. [More]

3 July 2003: 11-year-old Thomas Thompson kills himself with an overdose of painkillers because he was bullied at school for being “too clever”, say his family. Wallasey School headteacher Martin Pope said, “[Thomas] didn’t discuss concerns about bullying and there were no reports of bullying in the school.” Children who are being regularly abused and terrorised are too afraid to tell the responsible adults, especially when they are likely to be met with denial by the adults and reprisals by the bullies for having talked to a teacher. The responsible adults must be proactive in fulfilling their duty of care – if they’re reactive, it’s too late. [More]

12 July 2003: Leeds soccer fan Christopher O’Reilly, 15, hangs himself after bullies threaten to kill him or his parents. Christopher had already had his face slashed and his mobile phone and wallet stolen. Lawnswood School (Leeds) head teacher Milan Davidovic said “We spoke to his close friends. Nothing they told us suggests this was anything but a tragic accident.” [More]

7 September 2003: 15-year-old Marianne Shanks, a 4th year pupil at Dundee High School, hangs herself at her home near Inchture, Perthshire, Scotland. An investigation is under way which will consider claims that she was bullied at her private school. [More | More]

17 December 2003: 18-year-old Hannah Kirkham takes an overdose of painkillers after a long campaign of bullying, harassment and assault by fellow employees at KFC who called her, amongst other things, a “fat, spotty bitch”. Hannah was an A-level student who wanted to become a lawyer. She died in hospital on 26 December 2003. [More]

31 May 2004: 12-year-old Aaron Armstrong, who was a first-year pupil at Cambridge House Grammar in Ballymena, was found hanged in a hayshed at the family farm at Broughshane, County Antrim. Acts of assault, false imprisonment, theft and criminal damage had been played down as “boys will be boys”. [More]

July 2004: James Rogers, from Wrexham, Wales, kills himself after prolonged bullying. [More]

September 2004: 13-year-old Laura Rhodes commits suicide in an apparent pact; police deny claims of bullying. Cefn Saeson Comprehensive school (Neath, South Wales) student council issued a statement denying the school had a bullying problem whilst headteacher Alun Griffiths said “a range of strategies” was used to tackle bullying claims. [More |More | More]. In November 2004 the parents of Laura Rhodes demanded new laws to force schools to record bullying. [More] In April 2005 Laura Rhodes’ parents prepare to take legal action over the death of their daughter. [More] An inquest in May 2005 hears allegations of bullying at Cefn Saeson Comprehensive School, Neath. [More |Suicide verdict]

September 2004: 14-year-old Amy Rose Tipton, of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, died after taking an overdose of antidepressants. She was described as a high achiever at school, a beautiful, sensitive child who aspired to be a dancer. Police said they were investigating the possibility that she was being bullied at school. [More] [Coroner's verdict More]

October 2004: An inquest hears how Jamie Sell, a pupil at Cantonian High School in Fairwater, Cardiff, hanged himself a few days before his 18th birthday after being taunted by bullies. “The school takes any issue of bullying very seriously and has an anti-bullying policy in place” commented head teacher Lois Spargo. [More]

April 2005: 12-year-old Nathan Jones hangs himself after being tormented by bullies at King’s Wood School, in Harold Hill, Romford, Essex. Nathan was a school council representative who acted in school plays and raised money for the tsunami appeal. [More | More]

April 2005: 14-year-old Shaun Noonan from Ellesmere Port, Cheshire hangs himself after a long period of bullying including being headbutted, thrown into a ditch, having an earring pulled out and a ‘happy slapping’ incident recorded on mobile phones by youths at Sutton High School. [More | More]

May 2005: 15-year-old Anna Marie Averill, a pupil at Hillcrest School, in Bartley Green, Birmingham, kills herself after months of bullying. [More | More]

India moore :)
November 18, 2010 at 5:58 pm

that is really sad.

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Michael Reynolds
November 24, 2010 at 9:46 pm

I agree

Christina Barnett
January 30, 2011 at 3:25 pm

Mark Perry was killed in Abingdon!! He is on that list.

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70 | Georgia Hawkins
November 16, 2010 at 6:53 pm

Hi Mr Kelly!

I dont think bullying should go on anymore because it could hurt peoples feelings even if you dont mean it sometimes!
Good Comment. Georgia Mr. Kelly

72 | Megan Temple
November 17, 2010 at 4:25 pm

Bullying is very horrible and we could stop it by making eye catching posters and some surveys about bullying.

Megan Temple
November 17, 2010 at 4:30 pm

hi, I have been bullied by some y10 or 11′s and i don’t like it it makes me feel very upset!! It doesn’t happen all the time but when it does happen i HATE it!!

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India moore :)
November 18, 2010 at 6:05 pm

Yes, doing a HUGE survey of all of the school, and the teachers, because they may of been bullied themselves. That’s a really good idea, because I bet most people would be really shocked at the results, like how many people have been bullied, and people sometimes dont tell. Great Idea! LOVE it!!!!!!!!!:0 :$

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74 | Harriet Gibson
November 17, 2010 at 5:51 pm

Bulling is horrible, it should stop now. I dont think people relize how nasty it is. We should make posters and put them round school to show people how important it is. People kill them selves because of bullying and that is terrible.

98 | daniel hipwell
November 19, 2010 at 7:52 pm

bullying is crule there sould be more advertesments about it on tv i dont think that is fair someone is bullyed just because of the way they are the bullys are normally bullying people because they are gelous the other person is better than them when people r bullied the bully eventuly realises it is bad and after bullying someone u normally will start to feel what the other people felt so bullying someone else will eventully turn to bullying urself

100 | Jasmine Humphries
November 21, 2010 at 3:56 pm

Hi Mr Kelly,
I think to prevent bullying we could have a club for people who are being bullied and amongst themselves they could talk to each other about what has happened and make friends with each other making their school life happier then at the end they can vote on a teacher they all trust and tell him/her who is bullying them if they want to. Then in the next club (which runs twice a week) the teacher can get all of the people to write a letter on the computer saying how they feel about being bullied. If a bully has been revealed to a teacher then the teacher should find him/her and tell him/her that most of people that are being bullied wrote a letter about how they feel/felt and ask them to pick a random letter out of the box and read it. This should hopefully result to the bullies realising what they have done and make them think twice before they act again. I hope you like my idea!=-)!

102 | George Adams
November 21, 2010 at 5:13 pm

This is my video that i’ve made myself on bullying.

104 | Olivia Benison
November 21, 2010 at 7:47 pm

I found this video on you tube and I thought it was quite a good example of bullying.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slIeaNr-rRM. I didn’t know how to put the attachment on but if you type into you tube ‘DFE Anti Bullying Video’ you can watch it. Thanks.

Sarah Cunningham
November 22, 2010 at 5:28 pm

The poor boy!:( That was a good video!

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108 | charles gilling
November 22, 2010 at 7:22 pm

i don’t see the point in bullying because you don’t get anything out of it accept from making over peoples lives misrerable so to stop bullying we could make a anti bullying team to go round the classes and make sure no one is being bullied and if they re we can sort it out

110 | ciaran dempsey
November 22, 2010 at 7:59 pm

it is a very touching video, its hard to see a grown man, a ‘dad’, talk about he son who had taken his life because of thoughtless idiots!!

Im glad that he can do the school talks and encourage people to stand up to the bullies.

I think bullying should be against the law. if someone is seen bullying at school they should be expelled immediately.

in a pshe class all teachers should show a touching video like the one called ‘bullying and suicide’.

it is not a nice thing to be doing so lets fight it together!!!!

112 | Martha Bigger
November 22, 2010 at 9:08 pm

I think that anti bulling week is a good idea but people who are getting bullied should get just more than a week because like in some cases people kill themselves. Is that really worth one week?
P.S I wonder how the bully’s feel when they find the person who they bully kills themselves? I know i couldn’t live with myself but then i’m not a bully.

114 | Megan Smith:)
November 22, 2010 at 9:38 pm

I think bullying is wrong because it makes people upset. I think there should be a club which people who are getting bullied can go to and talk to people. I love everyones ideas xx I also think that anyone who is being bullied should tell their friend or even tell a student leadership person and this could make someone’s life better xx

116 | Sukhdeep Chahal
November 23, 2010 at 1:37 pm

bullying is wrong it ruins lives

118 | Imogen Hopkins
November 23, 2010 at 1:40 pm

imogen i think it would be a good idea to put posters around school so people are always aware

120 | Sian Lloyd
November 23, 2010 at 3:54 pm

Bullying…

We should put posters and surveys around school to see what pupils think about bullying.

Bullying can lead to death.
(Thanks for your comments. Mr. Kelly)

122 | morgan cash
November 23, 2010 at 5:11 pm

I Think bullying is unnessary it can cause people to kill their selfs.
i dont see why people do it because even if there is somone with a type of desise they are still a person and shouls be treated like you want to be treated. we all have differnt personalitys but you dont need to bullt somone over it.

124 | chloe jaques
November 23, 2010 at 6:15 pm

i think we should create a club for people who have been bullied because if there upset they can share it not keep it to themselves.

126 | lauren hawthorne
November 23, 2010 at 7:25 pm

hi mr kelly,

i think bullying is just a form of making the bullies feel big and strong when it just shows how attention seeking and cruel and shows they’re teying to prove something. i think that you could plant teachers around the school looking for signs of bullying. and you could set up a workshop on how bullying escalates and how we can work together to stop bullying all together.

thanx,lauren

128 | Amna Mirza
November 24, 2010 at 1:40 pm

Hi Mr Kelly,
We could have an after school club for anyone who is feeling bullied and lonely and then they could talk over their problems and do fun activites to help them forget about the problems but if it repeats then the teachers can sort it out!

130 | leo peixoto
November 24, 2010 at 1:48 pm

STOP BULLYING!

132 | Sian Lloyd
November 24, 2010 at 8:22 pm

My other idea for bullying is that the whole Yr7 group should create Posters, surveys, quizes and more to see what we all think off bullying and then create more posters to show what bulling can lead to e.g death.
Thanks.

134 | Michael Reynolds
November 24, 2010 at 9:40 pm

People should realise how bad bullying is… Bullying can lead to all types of things like suiside. together we can stop bullying, provent bullies from bullying people like us.

Look how many people have killed themselves because of bullying.
Jeffrey Johnston (Age 15) Hanging

Jonathan Reynolds (Age 15) Train

Jeffrey Johnston (Age 15) Hanging

Stephen Ayres (Age 13) Hanging

Paul Moran (Age 13) Hanging

Holly Chapman (Age 12) Overdose

Aimee Wellock (Age 16) Attacked

Brice Edwards (Age 15) Hanging

Shaun Noonan (Age 14) Hanging

Anna Maria Averill (Age 15) Hanging
Paul McCauley (Age 11) Hanging

Kelly Farrar (Age 13) Overdose

Lucy Forrester (Age 16) Electrocution

James Lambeth (Age 16) Carbon Monoxide

Peter Evans (Age 11) Crushed

Martin Harvey (Age 11) Collapsed & Died

Daniel Overfield (Age 12) Hanging

Velia Huert Victorino (Age 15) Hanging

Katherine Jane Morrison (Age 16) Overdose

Greg Doucette (Age 15) Hanging

Hannah Kirkhan (Age 18) Overdose

Aaron Armstrong (Age 12) Hanging
Nathan Jones (Age 12) Hanging

Lee Morris (Age 10) Hanging

Oran Saye (Age 12) Hanging

Jeff Weise (Age 16) Gunfire

Gary Hansen (Age 16) Hanging

David Berry (Age 16) Drowning

Darren Steele (Age 15) Hanging

Travis Sleeva (Age 16) Gunfire

Damilola Taylor (Age 10) Beaten

Natalie Smith (Age 12) Overdose

Myles Neuts (Age 10) Hanging

Kyle Jones (Age 17) Gunfire

Velia Huerta Victorino (Age 15) Hanging

Joshua Melo (Age 15) Hanging

Brian Head (Age 15) Gunfire

Emmet Fralick (Age 14) Gunfire

John Gettle (Age 14) Hanging

Daniel Scruggs (Age 12) Hanging

Curtis Taylor (Age 12) Gunfire

Brandon Swartwood (Age 15) Gunfire

Marlene Shanks (Age 15) Hanging

April Hines (Age 14) Hanging

Jared High (Age 13) Gunfire

Jack Glasby (Age 13) Hanging

Emma Morrison (Age 12) Hanging

Karl Peart (Age 16) Overdose

Laura Rhodes (Age 15) Overdose

Adam Grigg (Age 14) Hanging

Jamie Carl Sell (Age 17) Hanging

Amy Tipton (Age 14) Overdose

Tom Brough (Age 14) Hanging

Dawn Marie Wesley (Age 13) Hanging

Christopher O’Reilly (Age 15) Hanging

Sarah Harrison (Age 15) Hanging

Hannah Taylerson (Age 15) Hanging

Laura Kalibarda (Age 13) Hanging

Reena Virk (Age 14) Attacked & Beaten

Morgan Musson (Age 13) Overdose

Eric Harris (Age 18) Gunfire

Dylan Klebold (Age 17) Gunfire

Jamie Evans (Age 14) Hanging

Laura Grimes (Age 14) Overdose

Thomas Thompson (Age 11) Overdose

Suzy Barclay (Age 14) Overdose

Elaine Swiff (Age 15) Overdose

Marianne Shenks (Age 15) Hanging

Nicola Raphael (Age 15) Overdose

Ben Brownlee (Age 15) Hanging

Tempest Smith (Age 12) Hanging

Oliver Sabine (Age 17) Hanging

Gail Jones (Age 15) Overdose

Jevan Richardson (Age 10) Hanging

Kayleigh Davies (Age 13) Hanging

Emma Robertson (Age 13) Hanging

Gemma Dimmick (Age 15) Overdose

Denise Bailie (Age 14) Overdose

Josh Belluardo (Age 13) Fatal Injury

Nikki Sielaiman (Age 16) Hanging

Christopher Joyer (Age 12) Hanging

Hamed Nastoh (Age 14) Jumped from the Patullo bridge to his death

Kerby Casey Guerra (Age 13) Gunfire

Jemma Brine-Daniels (Age 14) Overdose

Allistair Hunter (Age 12) Hanging

Neil Gadd (Age 9) Killed

Darren Steele (Age 15) Hanging

Kelly Yeomans (Age 13) Overdose

Whitney Griffiths (Age 12) Overdose

Vijay Sigh (Age 13) Hanging

Marie Bentham (Age Hanging

Danielle Goss (Age 15) Overdose

Darren Steele (Age 15) Hanging

Stephen Woodhall (Age 12) Hanging

Amanda Brownridge (Age 14) Overdose

Marianne Bisenieks Age 15 Overdose

Jeremy Wade Delle (Age 16) Gunfire

Marc Haep (Age 18) Cyanide

Luke Walmsley (Age 14) Stabbed to Death

So can we stop it?
Thats the guestion

jodie smith
December 2, 2010 at 5:14 pm

this is relley sad

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140 | Ben Pell
November 25, 2010 at 6:31 pm

I think that if a person gets bullied and the victim does something like suicide then I would consider the bully to be a murderer

142 | Mohammed zaeem iqbal
November 25, 2010 at 10:08 pm

Bullying is a big problem. fortunately it doesnt happen in our school and hopefully it never will. The bully box is a very good idea ut when the children tell the teachers the teachers should say that they saw them do it so then the bullies wont get worse because the victim had told them off Because if people find out that someone has told off them then the bullies will get much worse unless the teachers punixh them severly.

amie campbell
November 27, 2010 at 2:14 pm

i think some bullying might be happening in our school zaeem- lots of people on the blog have said they were bullied. i also think that the bully box is a gd idea

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154 | tom armitage
November 29, 2010 at 5:45 pm

the film was ever so strong mr kelly

156 | ASHley_Reilly... x
November 30, 2010 at 6:44 pm

Hi. I commented yesterday but its not on here. Anyway I think that bullying is really wrong. I don’t understand why there are people still being bullied everywhere. For everyone that are being bullied I feel sorry for you. Tell someone and don’t let it get to you. If you are a bully think about what you are doing and its not funny or fun to bully people. Luv Ashley. xxxxxxx Stop Bullyin!..

158 | zoe laing
December 1, 2010 at 1:40 pm

I think that we should all pull together and mr kelly you know we have parter ship reading we could go to them if we are being bullied and they would be able to help us throgh it.

zoe laing

160 | zoe laing
December 3, 2010 at 1:34 pm

I think that bulling is wrong i have got a freind that had an apple with her lunch and a girl came an thrugh it on the floor and the teachers did nothing about it the girl that through it on the floor only got told not to do it again. Her other freind came along and comferted her and she told her what happend and she gave her some of her lunch insted. And then the girl that through the apple on the floor said that it wast her fault that it went on the floor even though she through it on the floor.

162 | Luke Marriott
January 11, 2011 at 9:39 pm

I think the subject is good to know and understand about it

164 | amna mirza
July 7, 2011 at 3:20 pm

i think that bullying is wrong, and it can really hurt someones feelings, even though you think that your not doing anything to them. We should set up a bullying club so that people who have been bullied can go there and explain their issues to either teachers or students. and also we should have a day where everyone can talk about whats happened to them. i’ve been bullied before and it really hurts. something should happen about this!!!!!