Blob Bullying
A session might be structured in the following way, depending on the
age group it is being delivered to. This is pitched at children aged 7-8
Introduction to the topic under discussion – elicit what the children already know and are able to verbalise. For the more creative
they can be set the challenge of acting out the bullying they describe.
Summarise what they have agreed.
Game to get the emotions stirred, which should involve some kind of
movement. For example, electric chair, where one child stands in the
middle of the room, and tries to sit in the spare chair in the circle before it is filled by children moving clockwise around the circle.
Discuss how it feels to be the isolated one in the middle if you can’t
find a gap.
Main Blob activity – give out Blob Bullying sheet and get the children to work in pairs to identify 5 different types of bullying they can
see. The more able might be challenged to group the different types
of bullying. Discuss as a group what the children have identified and
draw out any patterns. Set them the challenge of colouring every victim and circle the group bullying them. On a separate sheet get the
children to write down the different ways the Blobs are being victimised. Challenge them to write down a summary of what bullying is
like. The more able could also write down incidents which they have
seen taking place at the school and group them into categories of
their own suggestion.
Plenary - time to summarise and reflect upon learning – the children
could read out about six different suggestions of what they think bullying is defined as. The teacher could then draw it together with a
printed statement which is the school’s definition (see anti-bullying
policy). Leave this printed definition, along with an enlarged copy of
the Blob Bullying, on the wall for the children to remember for the
next few weeks.
Blob
YMCA
Training
Manual
You
are
a
beautiful
human
person