Bully Aware

My names Emily. Im almost 14 now. I started getting bullied around 7 years ago, when i first moved to scotland. My first primary school was very small. There was only 6 in my year. It started when we got moved and i had to sit next to the most popular girls. At first they seamed to be really nice to me. Letting me borrow stuff, talking and just generally nice things, after a while they kept asking to "let me copy your work" or "lets play swap" which was all fine till they did it so much that i was practically doing there work for them and i was having my stuff like pencil cases swapped when i wasn't there or without my permission. So one day I decided to talk to these girls but all I got was threats and nasty comments like "if you tell on me i'll say it was you" or " i'll tell my mum and she'll tell the teachers". After only 2 years in that school I moved at the start of P7.

I thought because I was only going to be in that school for a year that it would be fine.

Oh, how wrong I was.

Everyone in my new school all seamed to now each other, they all seamed to group together. So when I came I was on my own. It was like everyone was  in there little rooms with there friends so when i came everyone shut there doors and left me all alone. Then there was the teasing, if i didn't know something or if i made some sort of mistake, there would always be someone to laugh and point. They would even through things at me some days. Sometimes i wanted to die, it felt like it was me against everyone else. I tried so hard to fit in but whenever i did something right everyone always seamed to be doing something else like I was one step behind them all the time. I used to come home and lock myself in my room and cry to my cat, because I was the oldest and I wanted to take good care of my little siblings. I didn't want them seeing me so upset. I write to my diary when my cat isn't there.

I was so relieved when it was time to move up to secondary, i thought it would be better. Wow, was i wrong.

I'll write about the secondary school in "my story - part 2"

Hi there Emily,

It sounds like you've gone through some really bad bullying! Thanks for sharing your story, and it would be good if you could post part 2. If the bullying is still happening, we could talk to you and try to help you, because no matter how bad it gets, we are here to help, and we CAN beat bullying

them girls need a good talking to.its good that you decided to talk to them which was a sensible thing.but keep us posted as we are all here for you.