This questionnaire is designed to help us find out how much bullying is going on in the school and when and where it is happening.

Accurate information will help us to know how best to stop bullying happening.

Be as honest as you can as you answer the questions: the questionnaire is absolutely confidential - you do not need to write your name on this paper, so no-one will know how you've answered the questions.

No one will even be able to identify your writing - you don't need to put anything but ticks!

Thank you for your answers: they should help us to make our school a better place for all of us.

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1 My year group is

Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8

2 I am

a boy
a girl

3 During the past two weeks I have been bullied

never
once
twice
several times
many times

If you answered never to question 3 the next question to answer is number 9.

4 During the past two weeks I have been

kicked
hit
pinched
pushed
threatened
called names
teased
bitten
told to give money
told to give sweets

5 The places and times where I have been bullied in the past two weeks are

on the way to school
at the bus stop
in the subway
in the bike sheds
in the playground
on the field
in the toilets
in the changing rooms
in the corridors
in the dinner queue
during lessons
between lessons
on the way home

6 The people who bullied me in the past two weeks were

mostly boys
mostly girls
both boys and girls
younger than me
the same age as me
older than me
grown ups
mostly on their own
mostly in a group

7 I have told

a teacher
someone at home
my friends
no-one

8 In the past two weeks I have caused people to bully me by

calling them names
swearing
making faces at them
hitting or kicking them
insulting them
insulting their families
insulting their colour or race
insulting their religion
I have not done any of these

9 In the past two weeks I have bullied others

never
once
twice
several times
many times

Thank you for your help

Bullying Questionnaire: Notes for Teachers

The questionnaire must be administered on a Friday (because of the 'two weeks' aspect of the questions - see below).

Before administering the questionnaire, please spend some time (in a PSHE lesson) reminding pupils of the issues involved in bullying: what it is (our school definition is 'any behaviour which deliberately causes unhappiness for others'); why people bully; what sort of people bully; what sort of people are the victims; why bullying is hard to deal with (pupils afraid to tell etc) and so on.

It is very important to administer this questionnaire carefully so that pupils feel secure in completing it. Make sure that pupils are comfortable - not crowded so that they can't fill in the form without others seeing it.

Insist on quiet while the questionnaire is completed: no-one should be allowed to talk about their answers - this may intimidate nervous pupils, destroying their feeling of security.

Read through the entire paper with the class before they start work.

Please talk about how many of the questions refer to 'the past two weeks'. Indicate that this means this week and last week - they must not include incidents which took place before this. Younger pupils may need extra help in being clear about this time period.

Show them - on the board - how to put a tick between the square brackets. Some questions require only one tick; others can have a number of ticks - explain this to pupils as they work through the questionnaire.

With younger classes, it may be a good idea to ask them to wait when they've finished each question so that you can read the next question through again before they answer it.

Don't stop pupils before they have finished - and try not to rush them. When everyone has finished, ask pupils to close the booklets and leave them with the front page upwards on their desks so that none of their confidential answers can be seen: collect the papers in yourself - don't allow a pupil to do this.

If you have any comments or suggestions about the questionnaire, please let a member of the Bullying Working Party know.

Thanks for your help. The Bullying Working Party

Facing the problem of bullying in schools
Rules and procedures of the school bully court
Addresses, links and recommended reading