Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Kia Kaha with Constable Louise




 Constable Louise has been in Room 10 this week teaching us about Bullying - what it is, why people bully and how to deal with it. Today the focus was on cyber bullying and we watched this video - pretty thought provoking ! ( how private are your Facebook settings? )




Constable Louise came to Room 10 to talk about how to stop being bullied and how to solve it.
We learnt about different ways that people get bullied like: physical, gesture, stereotyping and worst of all cyber bullying.
If you are wondering what stereotyping is well that’s what I’m going to tell you?  It’s not a stereo that plays music or a computer that you type on it is when you judge someone you don’t even know and judge how you look or by their race. Constable Louise put up pictures of people we didn’t know and we had to guess their age, where they worked and their interests. Most of Room 10 were wrong about them and that is what you call stereotyping. So if you’re judging someone stop and think would you like people judging you and I bet the answer would be no!.
Anyway my favourite bullying subject was cyber bullying, it is a horrible type of bullying and no one should ever have to go through it. Room 10 is filled with people who talk on line and need to be aware of  cyber bullying. We got taught a few rules that you should follow if you have an online page. The rules were only friend your true friends and family and make sure they are the only people who can see your page, and if you are getting cyber bullied you need to tell someone like an adult at home or even your teacher. The biggest rule was don’t text back to the person that is cyber bullying you, because they will know that you are upset and will carry on even more. It was really good advice it made us think and wonder.
We also watched a few videos like Becky’s world that was about cyber bullying and at the end of the video it asked a very important question that everyone should ask themself
                        Are you cyber safe?
By Kiana Mclean

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