Advice for Parents/Carers
If you are concerned that your son/daughter is a victim of bullying or if you are concerned about any other student at the school please contact your son/daughter’s College Leader (http://www.redditch.tgacademy.org.uk/contact/useful-contacts/). For less urgent issues, you may prefer to send an e-mail (mainoffice@redditch.tgacademy.org.uk).
Adults should be aware of these possible indications of bullying. You may be concerned if a child…
- Is frightened of walking to or from school
- Doesn’t want to go on the school/public bus
- Begs to be driven to school
- Changes their usual routine
- Is unwilling to go to school (school phobic)
- Begins to truant
- Becomes withdrawn, anxious, or lacking in confidence
- Starts stammering
- Attempts or threatens some form of self harm or runs away
- Cries themselves to sleep at night or has nightmares
- Feels ill in the morning
- Begins to do poorly in school work
- Comes home with clothes torn or books damaged
- Has possessions which are damaged or “go missing”
- Asks for money or starts stealing money (to pay bully)
- Has dinner or other monies continually “lost”
- Has unexplained cuts or bruises
- Comes home starving (money/lunch has been stolen)
- Becomes aggressive, disruptive or unreasonable
- Is bullying other children or siblings
- Stops eating
- Is frightened to say what’s wrong
- Gives improbable excuses for any of the above
- Is afraid to use the internet or mobile phone
- Is nervous and jumpy when a cyber-message is received
Worcestershire ‘Anti-Bullying’ Website
Worcestershire County Council – Advice about bullying