Anti-bullying week – Pumpherston and Uphall Station CPS Blog

Primary 6 have been thinking about how our emotions and actions can have an impact on our friends and the people around us. This can be positive and helpful, or negative and sometimes even hurtful.

We thought about times when we free others to be themselves.

Here are some of the fantastic examples:

‘I free people when I tell them to be themselves and be happy. I free people when I ask them to play with me and smile. I free people when I tell them ‘Whatever they call you, nasty things, it isn’t true.’ ‘ – Sophie Martin.

‘I free people when I can respect how they are and understand how they are. I free people when I see they are trying hard to be themselves. I free people when they stop doing (things) to me and I can understand how or why they’re doing it.’- Sophie Campbell.

In Primary 5 today we watched the Newsround special debate on bullying. The big question was; is it better to PUNISH a bully or HELP them? A vote was held on the Newsround website and 47% said PUNISH, 53% said HELP.

Our vote was 50% PUNISH and 50 % HELP. We then thought about what we do here in school already, and whether each thing was a punishment or a help. Here are some of the comments from our discussion:

‘If you punish the bully, doesn’t that turn you into a sort of bully too?’

‘The bully gets to talk to the teacher, and they help the bully to understand their behaviour, and understand that we’re all like a big family here.’

‘They need to know there are consequences to what they do.’

‘We need to tell them to stop and give them a signal that what they are doing is wrong, and help them to understand that.’

‘We can set them a good example, that would be a help.’

‘When they get to write a letter of apology it helps the person who has been hurt too.’

What do you think about this question? Would you vote for PUNISH or HELP?

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