Common use of Cyber Bullying Clause in Contracts

Cyber Bullying. This involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others. Students will be held accountable for cyber bullying at College and any such interactivity that may impact negatively on the learning environment. By cyber-bullying, we mean bullying by electronic media: • Bullying by texts or messages or calls on mobile phones • The use of mobile phone cameras to cause distress, fear or humiliation • Posting threatening, abusive, defamatory or humiliating material on websites, to include blogs, personal websites, social networking sites • Using e-mail to message others • Hijacking/cloning e-mail and other social media accounts • Making threatening, abusive, defamatory or humiliating remarks in chat rooms, to include but not restricted to; Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and Ratemyteacher If you suspect or are told about a cyber-bullying incident, follow the protocol outlined below: • Ask the pupil to show you the mobile phone • Note clearly everything on the screen relating to an inappropriate text message or image, to include the date, time and names • Make a transcript of a spoken message, again record date, times and names • Tell the pupil to save the message/image • Go with the pupil and see a member of the Senior Leadership Team • Ask the pupil to bring on-screen the material in question • Ask the pupil to save the material • Print off the offending material straight away • Make sure you have got all pages in the right order and that there are no omissions • Accompany the pupil, taking the offending material, to see a member of the SLT • Normal procedures to interview pupils and to take statements will then be followed particularly if a child protection issue is presented.

Cyber Bullying. This involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others. Students will be held accountable for cyber bullying at College and any such interactivity that may impact negatively on the learning environment. By cyber-bullying, we mean bullying by electronic media: •  Bullying by texts or messages or calls on mobile phones •  The use of mobile phone cameras to cause distress, fear or humiliation •  Posting threatening, abusive, defamatory or humiliating material on websites, to include blogs, personal websites, social networking sites •  Using e-mail to message others •  Hijacking/cloning e-mail and other social media accounts •  Making threatening, abusive, defamatory or humiliating remarks in chat rooms, to include but not restricted to; Facebook, SnapChat, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and Ratemyteacher If you suspect or are told about a cyber-bullying incident, follow the protocol outlined below: •  Ask the pupil to show you the mobile phone •  Note clearly everything on the screen relating to an inappropriate text message or image, to include the date, time and names •  Make a transcript of a spoken message, again record date, times and names •  Tell the pupil to save the message/image •  Go with the pupil and see a member of the Senior Leadership Team •  Ask the pupil to bring on-screen the material in question •  Ask the pupil to save the material •  Print off the offending material straight away •  Make sure you have got all pages in the right order and that there are no omissions •  Accompany the pupil, taking the offending material, to see a member of the SLT •  Normal procedures to interview pupils and to take statements will then be followed particularly if a child protection issue is presented.