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Description

When does banter turn into bullying? Put yourself in someone else’s shoes in this fun drama game.

Taken from: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/it-s-just-banter/

Resources

Pens or pencils
A4 paper
Something to mark lines (for example, chalk, masking tape, or rope)

Instructions

Before you begin
Use the masking tape or chalk to make a line across the space. It should be long enough for everyone to stand on side by side (without being squashed).
Write ‘banter zone’ on one piece of paper and ‘bullying zone’ on another. Use the sticky tack to stick one sign at each end of the line.
If you’re working towards the Digital Citizen Staged Activity Badge, make sure to complete the final creative part of this activity to meet requirement 2 of Stage 3.
What’s banter?
The person leading the activity should show everyone the Yellow Card. They should explain that it’s Scouts’ code of practice to keep everyone safe and go through what it says.
Leave time for people to chat about the Yellow Card and ask any questions they might have.
Everyone should work together to come up with a simple definition of banter. Banter is playful, friendly teasing. Everyone’s in on the fun and no one is upset or hurt.
Everyone should think about when banter may turn into bullying. Banter turns into bullying if someone feels picked on or unhappy – especially if they want the teasing or joke to stop and it carries on, or if it becomes unkind.
Figure it out
The group should split in half – half should think from the perspective of the main character and half from the perspective of the main character’s friends.
The person leading the game should read one of the character stories below.
As they read, everyone should move along the line according to their perspective as the main character or their friends. They may start in the middle, and move back and forwards towards banter or bullying as the story progresses.
Once the story’s finished, everyone should recap. Did people move towards one zone near the end? Was there a clear point where the banter became something else? Did the main character group move towards the ‘bullying’ end before the main character’s friends?
Everyone should go back to where they began and repeat steps one to four for each of the character stories below. It’s a good idea for everyone to take turns at being the main character and their friends so they understand both perspectives.
By the end, everyone may find it easier to identify when fun banter starts to become unkind and move towards the bullying zone.
Everyone should work together to identify the signs that an interaction’s moving from the banter to the bullying sign – are there words or actions that suggest it’s starting to become unkind?
People could think about behaviour that goes on for a long time, name-calling, something continuing on social media, inviting others to join in, and anything else that impacts on someone’s wellbeing or daily life.

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• Digital Citizen

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