Anti-Bullying

Bullying is not tolerated at Sprowston Community Academy and we work hard to support the victims of bullying and to deal with those who bully others. We work closely with students and parents to identify the reasons behind bullying and to ensure that we all understand the significant impact that bullying can have on others.

Anti-Bullying Alliance

As a school we are currently working with the Anti-Bullying Alliance on the UAB program.

United Against Bullying (UAB) was the Anti-Bullying Alliance's DfE-funded free whole school anti-bullying programme that ran from November 2021 - March 2024.

What is the United Against Bullying (UAB) Programme?

United Against Bullying (UAB) is a whole-school anti-bullying programm, it was developed over 10+ years and grounded in robust evidence, UAB is designed to guide schools through a clear, structured, and impactful approach to reducing bullying, focusing on those pupils most at risk, including children and young people with SEND, children and young people who experience racist and faith-targeted bullying, sexual bullying, homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, looked-after children, young carers and those on free school meals.

What is Bullying?

The Diana Award defines bullying behaviour as repeated, negative behaviour that is

intended to make others feel upset, uncomfortable or unsafe.

Bullying can take a number of different forms although in reality there are often crossovers

between different types of bullying. The main types of bullying are:

Emotional Bullying: Being unfriendly; deliberately excluding someone from an activity;

hiding things or behaving in a tormenting way.

Physical Bullying: Any use of physical force or violence
Verbal Bullying: The use of name calling; sarcasm; teasing; spreading rumours
Racist Bullying: Treating someone differently because of their ethnic background; may include racist taunts; gestures and careless use of inappropriate language.
Sexual Bullying: May include unwanted physical contact or sexually abusive comments.
Homophobic Bullying: Bullying behaviours based on sexuality and prejudice about this.
Cyber Bullying: Bullying behaviours that take place using modern technologies such as computers and mobile phones and often involve social networking sites.
Bullying aimed at students with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities
Body shaming: bullying behaviours based on personal appearance.

It should be noted that here is a fine line between friendship disputes and bullying, with a large

number of reported bullying incidents stemming from broken friendships. These incidents will

be followed up in the same way as other bullying incidents.

In line with the Equalities Act 2010, we are fundamentally committed to securing equality for all

and will not tolerate bullying based upon prejudice or discrimination.

Please find the BHET Anti-Bullying Policy and SCA Anti-Bullying Procedure links.

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