If you’re experiencing bullying, looking after yourself can help reduce your stress levels and make you feel more positive and hopeful.
Year level
7-10
Duration
5 minutes
Type
In class activity
SEL Competencies
Self-awareness
Self-management
Learning intention
Students will be able to explain self-care tips that can be used if they have experienced bullying.
Key outcomes
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
describe some self-care tips for students to use after a bullying experience
identify the self-care strategies they would find most beneficial to use after a bullying experience.
Materials needed
Access to ReachOut.com's video clip 'What to do if you are being bullied'.
Mapped to
Australian Curriculum Health and Physical Education
Refine protective behaviours and evaluate community resources to seek help for themselves and others (AC9HP8P08)
Refine, evaluate and adapt strategies for managing changes and transitions (AC9HP10P02)
Australian Curriculum: General Capabilities
Personal and Social Capability:
Self-awareness
Self-management
Critical and Creative Thinking:
Analysing
NSW PDHPE Syllabus
Examines and demonstrates the role help-seeking strategies and behaviours play in supporting themselves and others (PD4-2)
Analyses factors and strategies that enhance inclusivity, equality and respectful relationships (PD5-3)
Victorian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education
Investigate the impact of transition and change on identities (VCHPEP123)
Evaluate factors that shape identities, and analyse how individuals impact the identities of others (VCHPEP142)
Activity 1
Instructions
5 minutes
As a group, watch the ReachOut.com video clip ‘What to do if you are being bullied’, which shares self-care tips from young people who have experienced bullying.
Ask the students to work with a partner and discuss the following: 'What are five practical ways someone can take care of themselves after a bullying experience?'
Ask the student pairs to write their ideas on sticky notes and place them on a whole-class list on butcher’s paper or a whiteboard.
Share the students’ ideas as a group. Ask them to write down three strategies they would find useful in this situation.
Debrief
Experiencing bullying can have a negative impact on your mental health and wellbeing. Identifying ways to look after yourself if you are bullied can be a helpful self-care strategy.
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