Scout Leadership Course Session Activity Notes

Session activity

Bullying Issues: Role Play

Time to allocate for this activity

30 minutes

Resources required

Ideas sheet.

Activity Notes

This short activity teaches about different forms of bullying, how we can prevent it and what to do if it happens.

Pre-briefing (2 mins)

Prepare and brief the members who are performing the role play as in The Task.

The task (10 mins)

One Patrol, or a selection of members from different Patrols are invited to perform a short play to the rest of the course. The play demonstrates an issue of bullying that is dealt with badly by the leader of the group.

Discussion (10 mins max)

The presenter facilitates a group discussion about the play they have watched. The presenter should be familiar with the content of the handout, which has some strategies on it. The following leading questions could be used:

• Who actually had the problem? (Do the course identify the victim or the bully as the problem?!)
• Who should have dealt with the problem?
• When should they have dealt with it?
• Why didn't they deal with it?
• Who did deal with it and when?
• How could it be dealt with differently?
• What can be done there and then and what can be done later? In what fourm?

Conclusion (10 minutes)

The presenter opens up the discussion to broader issues other than bullying that might be troubling the Scouts on the course in their home Troops - "I really want to be a Patrol Leader but, I am not sure if I can ..." or "How do you handle someone who is ...?". Where possible, the presenter can encourage the group to share one or two strategies for handling this issue. The role of the adult leader in supporting the Scout should be emphasised throughout.