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PINK SHIRT DAY 2019
KAIAKO/TEACHER TOOLKIT
FRIDAY 17 MAY 2019
PINKSHIRTDAY.ORG.NZ
CONTENTS WELCOME • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 3 FACT SHEET #1 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 4 IDEAS AND INSPIRATION FACT SHEET #2 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 9 HOW TO BE AN UPSTANDER FACT SHEET #3 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 11 KEY VALUES FACT SHEET #4 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 12 FUNDRAISING FOR PINK SHIRT DAY FACT SHEET #5 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 13 ABOUT BULLYING FACT SHEET #6 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 15 SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE TARGETED FACT SHEET #7 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 16 GETTING HELP AND ADVICE BULLYING-FREE NZ WEEK • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PAGE 17
WELCOME
On Pink Shirt Day, Friday 17 Bullying is a serious issue for tauira. Aotearoa has the
second-highest rate of school bullying out of 51 countries.
May 2019, Aotearoa will be
In Aotearoa, rangatahi who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transformed into a sea of pink transgender, queer, intersex, asexual or members of other
to spread aroha and kindness, sexuality and gender diverse communities (LGBTQIA+) – also
referred to as rainbow communities – experience higher
celebrate diversity and put an rates of bullying.
end to bullying! Many studies show that rangatahi who are bullied are
more likely to experience mental health issues, such as
It’s a day where you, your depression, anxiety and even suicidal thoughts.
The Pink Shirt Day Kaiako/Teacher Toolkit makes it super
school and your tauira/
easy to get involved – you can run our new classroom
students can Kōrero Mai, activities with your tauira, give out Pink Shirt Day Awards
with our certificates, order a free school mufti day pack
Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – and fundraise for Pink Shirt Day, encourage tauira to use a
Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop stencil to create their own t-shirt, give stickers to rangatahi
who express aroha and kindness and much more!
Bullying!
Throughout this toolkit, we mention three key E Tū Whānau
values, which align with Pink Shirt Day: aroha, kōrero awhi
By celebrating Pink Shirt Day and mana manaaki. These values come from hui/meetings
at your kura or school, you held around the country on what people feel contributes to
a strong and thriving whānau. These values form the themes
can help all rangatahi/young and messaging throughout this toolkit.
people feel safe, valued and Make a positive impact on your school, using Pink Shirt Day
respected. and these three values to help build and sustain a positive
culture where all tauira can flourish, free from bullying!
He aha te mea nui o te ao.
He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata.
What is the most important thing in the world?
PINK SHIRT DAY 2019 KAIAKO/TEACHER TOOLKIT
It is people, it is people, it is people.
Once again, Bullying-Free NZ Week (May 13–17) ends on Pink Shirt Day! Their theme is ‘Whakanuia
Tōu Āhua Ake! Celebrating Being Us!’. Learn more here.
Pink Shirt Day is led by the Mental Health Foundation with support from InsideOUT, Te Kaha O Te
Rangatahi Trust, Village Collective, New Zealand Post Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA), the
Human Rights Commission, Auckland District Health Board Peer Sexuality Support Programme
(PSSP), the Peace Foundation, Youthline and Bullying-Free NZ Week.
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FACT SHEET #1:
IDEAS AND INSPIRATION
Creating a positive culture and environment at school, free from bullying and
where diversity is celebrated, takes more than just one day.
There is so much you can do to make your school Prepare for an increase in reporting
safe, supportive and respectful for all rangatahi/ • During awareness campaigns, like Pink Shirt
young people. Day, there is often an increase in reporting of
Here’s a list of ideas to help you prep for Pink bullying behaviours, in particular cyberbullying.
Shirt Day, celebrate on the day, and continue Alert the pastoral care team and instruct staff
the movement throughout the year! We’ve even how to respond to student reports.
introduced new classroom activities, developed by • Educate your staff on the expected referral
Sparklers! process and ensure they are informed of
any internal and online support services and
Your school might have different rules and a helplines available for tauira or the kaiako
different culture to other schools. If this list of themselves.
activities won’t work at your school, get creative • Use staff meetings as an opportunity to raise
and come up with your own activities that will policy and procedures for addressing bullying
work for you. complaints or incidents.
Use the value of ‘kōrero awhi’
• ‘Kōrero awhi’ is about being able to
communicate clearly, positively and with
compassion.
• In the lead up to Pink Shirt Day, ask your tauira
to identify ways they can use ‘kōrero awhi’ to
help kaiako and their fellow tauira feel safe,
valued and respected at school.
Put in your resource order early!
To avoid missing out, get in early and order your
free school mufti day pack full of posters (in te reo
too!), a DIY t-shirt stencil, balloons and more.
IN THE LEAD UP TO PINK SHIRT DAY:
Ending bullying takes more than one day and takes
the commitment and energy of the whole school. The value of ‘kōrero awhi’ is
Creating a positive school culture and environment an important part of preparing
PINK SHIRT DAY 2019 KAIAKO/TEACHER TOOLKIT
free from bullying and where diversity in all its
forms is celebrated, doesn’t happen in one day. for the Pink Shirt Day kaupapa.
Change takes time. Kōrero awhi is about being able to
There are things you can do ahead of Pink Shirt Day
to get management or other kaiako/teachers on
communicate clearly, positively and
board so the day is a success at your school! with compassion. You can use this
Get key people on board! value in the lead up to the day to get
Your chances of running a Pink Shirt Day at your your school and tauira/students on
school are higher if you have a kōrero with your
school principal, school management, other
board with Pink Shirt Day.
kaiako and head tauira/students so they can awhi/
support you.
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Arrange to speak at assembly and/or design USE OUR NEW ACTIVITIES IN
a class presentation YOUR CLASSROOM:
• Before Pink Shirt Day, open up conversations Promote being an Upstander
about bullying by talking about the campaign
• A bystander is someone who sees or knows
and what it stands for. Use our ‘About Pink Shirt
about bullying that is happening to someone
Day’ and ‘About Bullying’ fact sheets to guide an
else. A supportive bystander (an ‘Upstander’)
assembly presentation.
will use words or actions that can help someone
• Talk about the three values of kōrero awhi,
who is experiencing bullying.
aroha and kindness and mana manaaki.
• Help your tauira be Upstanders with our Five
Actions to be an Upstander. Run our two new
classroom activities – Being Brave for Others
and Upstanding Plan – so they know what
they can do if they see bullying happening
within or outside of school. The two activities
summarise the five Upstander actions in a fun
and engaging way and help rangatahi feel more
confident taking action!
Get whānau involved!
• Our new Pink Shirt Day classroom activity,
Culture of Kindness – A Co-Design Approach,
gives your tauira the opportunity to interview a
member of their whānau about what they hope
their experience at school is like. The answers
from whānau could be really interesting!
• This activity is all about the importance of
having a whole of school-community approach
Create t-shirts! to create a culture of aroha and kindness where
In each mufti day school pack, there is a stencil bullying can’t flourish.
where tauira can create their own Pink Shirt Day Encourage aroha and kindness
tee or use it to draw with chalk on the footpath! If • Encourage your tauira to do a random act of
you’re registered for updates, you’ll be the first to kindness at school or at home (like opening a
hear when our official Pink Shirt Day t-shirt is ready door or offering to help!). It’s easy!
to order. • Play our new classroom activity, The Empathy
Effect! This roleplay activity is all about how
Print the Pink Shirt Day Tauira/Student our actions can impact others – when we do
Toolkit something unkind to one person, that person
Pink Shirt Day is a great platform for engaging isn’t necessarily the only one impacted.
rangatahi in bullying prevention and supporting
tauira/student-led initiatives and actions. Leave
copies of the Pink Shirt Day Tauira/Student Toolkit
When tauira/students show each
on your desk for tauira to read and to learn more other aroha and kindness, it can have
about Pink Shirt Day!
a flow-on effect!
Celebrate on an alternate date
If your school has something else happening on
Celebrate your rainbow tauira and fellow
kaiako
PINK SHIRT DAY 2019 KAIAKO/TEACHER TOOLKIT
Friday 17 May, hold your Pink Shirt Day on another
day that works for your school! • Run our new classroom activity, We Can Only
Shine, with your tauira. This activity is about
diversity, acceptance and being our true selves
– it’s a fun activity with an important message.
Pink Shirt Day has The activity is for younger tamariki but there is
a suggestion for older rangatahi too.
important messages to be • Chalk or paint rainbows on the footpath, or have
rainbow stickers/flags, to show you are a safe
sending to children and and welcoming school for LGBTQIA+ rangatahi
their whānau. and whānau.
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ON PINK SHIRT DAY FRIDAY 17 MAY 2019: Create a Pink Shirt Day pledge
You might have other kaiako/teachers and This is a great way to open up the conversation
management’s supportive of running a Pink Shirt about bullying with tauira and their whānau too!
Day at your school by this stage. Now it’s time to Ask your tauira to join the movement by adding
run some fun activities on the day for your tauira/ their name to a piece of paper and pledging one
students – ones that have an important underlying action they will take to prevent bullying. Remind
message! them that it shows their commitment to creating a
bullying-free environment. Their whānau can sign it
too. Display it and share it on social media!
Expressing the values of aroha and
kindness is what the Pink Shirt Day
kaupapa is all about! Remind your
tauira/students an important part
of today (Pink Shirt Day!) is about
spreading aroha and kindness and
knowing the positive effects it can
have on everyone around them!
Pink up your class!
Hold a pink school mufti day, collect gold coin
donations and turn your school into a sea of pink!
Visit our Swag page and order your free mufti day
pack full of pink resources and decorations. Provide
ribbons or pins for students who are unable to
wear pink to show their support in alternate ways.
Pink compliments Get sporty
Ask your tauira to create compliments by cutting Ask school sports teams to wear pink socks, arm
out heart shapes with phrases of aroha and bands or t-shirts and take the message to the field
kindness and give them out to other tauira. on the game day closest to your school’s Pink Shirt
Day. The more people wearing pink, the better!
Encourage tauira to leave thoughtful messages full
of aroha for each other on social media.
Organise a postcard delivery service where tauira
can write to others, thanking them for their recent
aroha and kindness (or your other school values).
I often talk to my senior
Give out Pink Shirt Day Awards tamariki about the legacy
Recognise rangatahi who express the values of
Pink Shirt Day. We’ve created a certificate to make they leave at the kura before
it super easy. Just download and print it! We also moving on to high school.
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have stickers to award tauira with too.
Get active on social
Encourage your tauira to post videos, photos and
selfies of themselves in pink using #pinkshirtdaynz
on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. Remind them
we have a new Facebook frame to add to their
profile photo (coming soon!).
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KEEP THE BALL ROLLING: Review your school’s anti-bullying policy
Preventing bullying at your school will take more and ensure it’s accessible?
than just one day. Just because Pink Shirt Day • It’s really important for your school to have an
is one day, doesn’t mean your role in preventing anti-bullying policy and for you and your tauira
bullying ends. Keep the kindness ball rolling at your to know about it and understand it.
school with these activity suggestions that can be • Check to see that expectations around the use
used beyond the day. of digital devices, photos and videos are explicit
in the policy.
• Promote the policy and the specific measures
Encourage tauira/students to build for community members to report bullying
up each other’s mana, even after behaviours in school newsletters and on the
school’s website.
Pink Shirt Day has finished. The awhi/ • Ensure you promote the anti-bullying policy to
support they give their mates, fellow whānau and parents, and that they’re involved
in resolving reports of bullying.
tauira or whānau can uplift their
Build capacity for change
mana and help them feel good! By • Teachers require professional learning
applying mana manaaki, tauira will opportunities to learn about how sexuality,
gender and intersecting cultural identities relate
be contributing to a positive school to bullying. Organise for an appropriate teacher
environment where everyone can feel or outside presenter to help your staff become
more confident in speaking about these issues.
valued and respected at all times! • Identify opportunities in your school curriculum
to allow students to explore issues related to
diverse genders and sexualities.
• Teach staff and students to “say what they
mean and mean what they say” to end
homophobic and bullying put-downs in the
classroom.
Challenge co-curricular norms
Ensure language use and rules around events such
as the school ball are inclusive of diverse genders
and sexualities.
Meet with coaches to discuss strategies to stamp
out misogynistic and homophobic banter at team
training sessions and in the stands.
Gather community voice
Access tools such as the Wellbeing@School survey
to gather data regarding how students feel about
their experiences of bullying at your school. Over
Start a Rainbow Diversity Group (or if you
time, repeat the survey and compare the results to
have one, join it!) track progress.
• Sometimes known as Queer Straight Alliances
Keep bullying prevention front of mind
PINK SHIRT DAY 2019 KAIAKO/TEACHER TOOLKIT
or Gay Straight Alliances, Rainbow Diversity
Groups are tauira/student-led groups or clubs Check out our book reviews on topics like anxiety,
that provide a safe and supportive environment bullying, feeling different and resiliency in class.
for rangatahi of diverse sexualities, sexes, Some books have even been reviewed by rangatahi
genders and their allies. These groups are one themselves! Speak about one of the reviewed
way to take an active role in preventing bullying books in class.
at a school.
• Check out InsideOUT for a resource pack
including great tips to give tauira on starting a
group, what to do in a group, examples of other
groups and lots more!
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Help make your school inclusive and Check out the school library
supportive of trans and gender diverse Does your school library have books with a wide-
rangatahi range of characters and topics from diverse
Check out InsideOUT’s guidebook for creating safe backgrounds? Do these books celebrate diversity?
and inclusive school environments for trans and Ask the school librarian to make a Pink Shirt Day
gender diverse tauira. From bullying to bathrooms, display of these books. If you think your school’s
the Making Schools Safer for Trans and Gender collection could use a bit more diversity, talk to the
Diverse Students resource covers all aspects your librarian!
school may need to think about.
Review your school’s uniform policy with the aim
to provide greater choice for expression of diverse
gender identities.
Take issues of bullying seriously
If tauira confide in you they are being bullied:
• Take it seriously and let them know you care
and you will help make it stop.
• Encourage them to talk with a parent, whānau
member, school counsellor or call one of the
helplines on our ‘Getting Help & Advice’ fact
sheet.
We now feel part of a bigger
Display the ‘Getting Help and Advice’ fact
kaupapa/movement than just sheet in your classroom
our own little kura. Display our ‘Getting Help and Advice’ fact sheet of
key helplines on notice boards, your classroom and
in common areas.
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FACT SHEET #2:
HOW TO BE AN UPSTANDER
BYSTANDER VS. UPSTANDER FIVE ACTIONS TO BEING AN UPSTANDER
What is a bystander? These actions can help your tauira take safe action
(ReachOUT):
• A bystander is someone who sees or knows
about bullying that is happening to someone 1. A
whi/support the person experiencing
else.
bullying
• Bystanders can be an important part of the • Awhi the person being bullied, even if you just
solution to stop bullying (Australian Human stand beside them and let them know you’ve
Rights Commission). got their back.
What is an ‘Upstander’? • Encourage them to ask a kaiako/teacher for
• An Upstander is a supportive bystander. help or go with them to get help.
• An Upstander will use words and/or actions • Give them our ‘Getting Help and Advice’ fact
that can help someone who is being bullied sheet.
(Australian Human Rights Commission). • Let them know they’re not alone!
• There is no one-size-fits-all approach to being
an Upstander. Being an Upstander can be
2. Distract
tough. Sometimes it is not easy to work out Interrupt the bullying in some way:
how to help safely (Australian Human Rights • For example, ask the person experiencing
Commission). bullying if they want to play a game.
• Help them to leave the situation they’re in.
Why encourage your tauira/students to be • Anything non-threatening will work.
Upstanders?
• Bystanders can be powerful allies. Tauira have
3. Call it!
a unique power to prevent bullying. Research • If you feel safe to, let the person/people doing the
shows that more than half of bullying situations bullying know that what they’re doing is not okay.
(57%) stop when a peer intervenes on behalf of • Use your words to show aroha and kindness to
the tauira being bullied. those involved.
• Our classroom activities support tauira to • Don’t stand by and watch.
intervene safely in bullying situations. • It can be hard to speak up in the moment, but it
• Schools can encourage tauira to be there for can make a huge difference.
one another and be Upstanders by teaching 4. Leave and act
skills and offering resources – like our If you don’t feel safe to step in while the bullying is
Upstander classroom activities – that support happening:
this behaviour. • Move away from the situation.
• Tauira who express Upstander behaviours • Have a wee think before actually doing
or values of kōrero awhi, aroha and kindness something.
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or mana manaaki could be recognised and • Later, let the person experiencing the bullying
rewarded with our Pink Shirt Day awards. know that you saw and ask what might help.
• You might have a quiet word with the person
Kaiako/teachers who encourage their doing the bullying behaviour.
tauira to be Upstanders is one way 5. Get some awhi/support and help
they are helping them to become • There are people who care and want to help!
better people and stronger young • Support the person to get some help from
others – whānau, kaiako, a trusted adult or a
leaders. helpline and then help them act on their advice.
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Upstanders who feel safe enough to take
action and apply the value of ‘kōrero
awhi’ can help put an end to bullying and This is how life should be.
the target of bullying can recover. People should be able to
stand up for their values
Upstander classroom activities: in life and stick up for the
Awhi/support your tauira to have the confidence and
mana to use these actions by running our new Pink
people in their life.
Shirt Day activities in your classroom!
• Being Brave for Others: This fun activity teaches
rangatahi about the above five Upstander
actions but also helps them to reflect on their
friendships, people who are there for them, and
who they are there for.
• Upstanding Plan: A creative activity where tauira
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film a safety video, similar to Air New Zealand’s,
on the Five Upstander Actions. Have a film
premiere night with the principal and whānau,
share them at assembly, add them to your school
website and share them with us! This is a fun
game with an important message.
This fact sheet has been developed based on content from the Australian Human Rights Commission, ReachOUT and PACER.
10FACT SHEET #3:
KEY VALUES
Aroha and kindness, kōrero awhi and Kōrero Awhi
Kōrero awhi is an important part of Pink Shirt Day!
mana manaaki are three key values for Kōrero awhi is about being able to communicate
Pink Shirt Day! clearly, positively and with aroha to others. Kōrero
awhi helps friends, rangatahi, kaiako/teachers,
The values, developed by E Tū Whānau, are part tauira/students and whānau relate and feel
of who we are and what makes us strong. These connnected to each other!
values come from hui/meetings held around the
Aroha and Kindness
country on what people feel contributes to a
strong and thriving whānau! Aroha and kindness is all about giving
unconditionally and is what Pink Shirt Day is all
about! Aroha can make your relationships with
whānau, friends and communities stronger by
letting each other know on a daily basis, through
kōrero or actions, that they are loved and/or
appreciated. Remember – expressing the values of
aroha and kindness can have a positive effect on
everyone around you!
Mana Manaaki
Māori understandings of mana manaaki include
many things – with Pink Shirt Day, it means building
up other people’s mana! The awhi/support you give
your mates, fellow tauira or whānau can uplift their
mana and help them feel good! By applying mana
manaaki, you’ll be contributing to a positive school
environment where everyone can feel valued and
respected at all times.
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This fact sheet has been developed based on content developed by E Tū Whānau. You can learn more
about the rest of their important values, including Tikanga, Whakapapa and Whanaungatanga. 11FACT SHEET #4:
FUNDRAISING FOR PINK SHIRT DAY
Every year Pink Shirt Day grows bigger, brighter Have a bake sale
and bolder than ever before thanks to schools and Hold a lunchtime bake sale full of sweet pink
kura across Aotearoa who fundraise to support the treats! Add some pizazz to the baked goodies by
movement! Every dollar raised makes a difference printing our Pink Shirt Day cupcake flags.
and helps us make our schools kinder and safer for
our rangatahi. Print or order our Diversi-tea Kōrero Starter
We believe fundraising should be fun and easy – Cards
here’s a list of simple ideas to help you build the Pink When people get to know each other, they are
Shirt Day movement in your school, kura and beyond! more likely to embrace and celebrate their
differences and similarities. Our Diversi-tea Kōrero
1. Hold a mufti day! Starter Cards could be used in the classroom and
• Turn your school into a sea of pink to show your the staffroom!
support for Pink Shirt Day! Order our mufti day
pack which contains balloons, posters, stickers, Spread the movement
and a special Pink Shirt Day stencil so rangatahi Check out our sample text you can use in the
can get creative and spray their own pink next school newsletter to let friends and whānau
t-shirts or create chalk creations across the know what Pink Shirt Day is all about and why
school grounds. your school and kura is celebrating (and why their
• Mufti days are a powerful way to get the whole tamariki might ask for a gold coin donation!).
school and kura community involved in the day
and spread the Pink Shirt Day kaupapa.
• Collect a gold coin donation!
HOW TO DONATE
Get the official pink t-shirt Bank: Bank of New Zealand
While many rangatahi will want to create their own Name: Mental Health Foundation
pink t-shirt, we also have pink t-shirts for sale. Let Account Number:
tauira/students and their whānau know in case 02-0100-0752592-097
they want to purchase them. If you’re registered for Ref: PSD and the name of your
updates, you’ll be the first to hear when our official school or kura.
Pink Shirt Day t-shirt is ready to order. You could
give some away to tauira who display aroha and
kindness!
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12FACT SHEET #5:
ABOUT BULLYING
What is bullying?
It isn’t uncommon to hear someone say something insensitive or mean to someone else. Although these
comments or actions are not okay, bullying has some specific features that make it much more serious and
harmful.
• Bullying is deliberate – harming another person intentionally
• Bullying involves a misuse of power in a relationship
• Bullying is usually not a one-off – it is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated over time
• Bullying involves behaviour that can cause harm – it is not a normal part of growing up (Bullying-Free NZ
Week website, 2017).
What does it look like?
Bullying can be:
PHYSICAL VERBAL SOCIAL CYBERBULLYING
– hitting, tripping up – insults, threats – spreading gossip or – bullying online, via the internet, mobile
excluding people phones and social media. It’s a common
form of bullying, especially amongst
young people (Steiner-Fox, 2016).
Why do some people get bullied?
We know people are more likely to be bullied if they
seem different from their peers in some way. It’s really important to
This might include being clever or popular, remind people that it’s okay
differences in race, sexuality, gender identity, to be different from others
ethnicity, religion, disabilities and abilities, weight or
height. and it’s not okay to bully
That’s why it’s so important to celebrate diversity people just because they
and embrace our differences – we aren’t all the same are not the same as you.
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and that’s a great thing! (Bullying-Free NZ Week
website, 2017).
Why do some people bully others?
Just as there are many reasons someone might experience bullying, there are also many reasons why
someone might bully someone else.
• They feel unhappy
• They have been the target of bullying themselves
• They want to feel important or powerful
• They don’t realise how their behaviour harms others
• They believe being different is a bad thing.
Labelling someone who bullies as a “bad person” isn’t right or helpful. While the bullying behaviour isn’t okay,
someone who bullies others often needs our help and support too.
13Is bullying harmful? Why prevent bullying?
• Many studies show that rangatahi who are bullied are more likely to experience mental health issues, such
as depression, anxiety and even suicidal thoughts.
• This can impact on their learning, relationships and ability to feel good about who they are.
• Bullying harms the person being bullied, the person doing the bullying and can also harm those who
witness it (bystanders).
• Rangatahi who bully others, or are bullied (or both), are more likely to skip classes, drop out of school, and
perform worse academically than schoolmates who have no conflict with their peers (OECD, 2015).
• In Australia, by the time each student cohort has completed its schooling years (generally this is 13
years), the people experiencing the bullying, the people doing the bullying, their families, schools and the
community will have experienced an estimated $525 million in costs associated with bullying (PwC).
• In Australia, after school completion, the consequences of bullying continue and are estimated to cost
$1.8 billion for each single cohort of students over a period of 20 years (PwC).
• By taking bullying seriously and celebrating the diversity of tauira/students, all rangatahi can feel safe and
supported, and flourish at your school!
59% 17%
59% of New Zealand children and young 17% of New Zealand children and young
people say being valued and respected for people say having a good life means feeling
who they are is important to having a good safe (including from bullying), valued and
life (Office of the Children’s Commissioner respected and being healthy (including
and Oranga Tamariki, 2019). mentally healthy) (Office of the Children’s
Commissioner and Oranga Tamariki, 2019).
12%
4x
9%
5%
High school students who had been bullied 2012 2015/16 2016/17
weekly or more often were four times more
likely to experience significant depressive The number of 15 to 24 year olds struggling
symptoms than students who had been with mental health issues has been steadily
bullied infrequently or not at all (Clark, 2009). increasing (Ministry of Health, 2017).
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2017 79,000
$1.8
2016 58,000 billion
The number of young people In Australia, after school completion, the
experiencing anxiety or depression consequences of bullying continue and are
has increased in the past year estimated to cost $1.8 billion for each single
(Ministry of Health, 2017). cohort of students over a period of 20 years (PwC).
14FACT SHEET #6:
SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE
LIKELY TO BE TARGETED
While all young people are potential targets of bullying, some groups can experience higher rates.
Homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying
These terms refer to bullying based on a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Young people who
identify as LGBTQIA+, or are perceived to be part of the rainbow community, experience higher rates of
bullying than students who do not. However, it is important to note that not all of these students will
experience homophobic, biphobic or transphobic bullying.
LGBTI young people are resilient, have higher rates of volunteering and
community engagement and are an important part of our community.
Despite this, LGBTI young people are particularly vulnerable to experiencing
homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying (Clark, 2013).
• The Youth‘12 national health and wellbeing survey of New Zealand secondary school students found:
50%
Nearly one in five students who are 50% of transgender Four out of ten
same/both sex attracted, or are students had been hit same/both-sex attracted
transgender or unsure of their gender or physically harmed students had been hit
identity, reported being bullied on purpose in the or physically harmed on
weekly at school, compared to 6% last 12 months purpose in the last 12
of their peers (Lucassen, 2014) and (Clark, 2014). months (Lucassen, 2014).
(Clark, 2014).
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Discrimination and social exclusion on The effects of homophobic and
the basis of sexuality or gender identity biphobic bullying at school can
has been directly linked to an increased be lifelong, and can include lower
risk of depression, anxiety and suicidal educational attainment, lower
thoughts for LGBTQIA+ young people income and lower wellbeing
(Adams, 2012). (Henrickson, 2008).
15FACT SHEET #7:
GETTING HELP AND ADVICE
TALK TO SOMEONE
Youthline – 0800 37 66 33, free text 234 or email talk@youthline.co.nz for young people, and their
parents, whānau and friends.
1737 – Need to talk? Free call or text 1737 any time for support from a trained counsellor.
Lifeline – 0800 543 354, (09) 522 2999 or free text ‘4357’ (HELP).
What’s Up – 0800 942 8787 (0800 WHATSUP), www.whatsup.co.nz
for 5–18 year olds. Phone counselling is available Mon-Fri 12pm-11pm and Sat-Sun 3pm-11pm. Online
chat is available 7pm–10pm daily.
Kidsline – 0800 54 37 54 (0800 KIDSLINE)
for children up to 14 years of age. Available 24/7. Between 4-9pm calls are answered by specially trained
Year 12 & 13 students.
Samaritans – 0800 726 666
for confidential support to anyone who is lonely or in emotional distress 24 hours a day,
365 days a year.
Suicide Crisis Helpline – 0508 828 865 (0508 TAUTOKO)
for people in distress, and people who are worried about someone else.
GET SUPPORT ONLINE
thelowdown.co.nz – visit the website or free text 5626
support for young people experiencing depression or anxiety.
Common Ground – www.commonground.org.nz
for advice about supporting a friend or classmate.
Netsafe – www.netsafe.org.nz
for advice on how to stay safe online or call 0508 638 723.
FIND SUPPORT AROUND SEXUALITY OR GENDER IDENTITY
InsideOUT – hello@insideout.org.nz, www.facebook.com/insideoutkoaro/,
Twitter: @insideoutkoaro, Instagram: @insideoutkoaro
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works to make Aotearoa a safer place for all young people of diverse genders, sexes and sexualities.
OUTLine NZ – 0800 688 5463 (0800 OUTLINE), www.outline.org.nz
for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people. Free phone counselling is available Monday
to Friday, 9am–9pm, and weekends/holidays 6pm–9pm.
RainbowYOUTH – info@ry.org.nz, www.facebook.com/rainbowyouth,
Twitter: @RainbowYOUTH, Instagram: rainbowyouth
offers support for young queer and gender diverse people up to the ages of 28.
16New Zealand’s annual nationwide Bullying-
Free NZ Week aims to support schools Create a student
and their communities to raise awareness advisory group
of bullying and highlight their work in
bullying prevention. Plan activities for Bullying-
Free NZ Week with a
The week starts on Monday 13 May and group of students to get
ends with the Mental Health Foundation’s everyone involved.
Pink Shirt Day, Friday 17 May.
WHAKANUIA TŌU ĀHUA AKE!
CELEBRATING BEING US! is a
chance for students to celebrate what Gather and share
makes them unique – such as talents, ideas
interests, appearance, disability, culture,
race, gender or sexuality – and encourage Encourage students to
gather and share their
schools to build environments where
bullying prevention ideas
everyone is welcome, safe and free from in assemblies or lessons.
bullying. Schools can take part in a range of
fun and easy bullying prevention-themed
activities and take the opportunity to review
their policy and practice.
It’s really important students talk about Use a slogan
bullying—they’re the experts in knowing
what it’s like to be bullied today and the Use the official Bullying-
best way to support them. Free NZ Week slogan
Celebrating being us!,
Free resources to start talking about or come up with your own.
bullying and share ideas are available
at www.bullyingfree.nz
Enter the 2019 Bullying-Free NZ Week competition
Make a short film, compose a song, create a rap, write a
story or poem, or make a PowerPoint presentation.
Three age groups: junior, intermediate, and senior.
Award-winning schools will each receive $500 worth of resources of their
choice. Check out last year’s winners at www.BullyingFree.nz
For more information, activity ideas and
free resources visit www.bullyingfree.nz or
email info@bullyingfree.nz
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